Research Catalog

Title

Universities, faculty, and the battle over intellectual property : who owns what's inside the professor's head? / Randy Bobbitt.

Author

Bobbitt, Randy, 1955-

Publication

Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, c2006.

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Details

Description

118 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

This book examines the intellectual property conflicts that occur when college professors develop new courses to be delivered by electronic means, such as through the Internet. At many universities, faculty members are encouraged to develop such courses, but are required to sign intellectual property agreements that allow the institutions to re-package the courses, license them to other universities and enjoy the profits, with the faculty members receiving nothing other than a one-time 2development fee. 3 While intellectual property conflicts between employers and employees in private industry have been common for years, such conflicts between faculty members and the universities that employ them are just now becoming common in the American legal system. The primary theoretical consideration in this research is related to the fundamentals of constitutional law. There are occasional conflicts between intellectual property law and concepts of free speech, both of which are provided for in the U.S. Constitution. - Publisher.

Subject

• College teachers > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States
• Copyright and distance education > United States
• Copyright, Employees' > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain
• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Historical and constitutional foundations of intellectual property law -- Intellectual property in the workplace -- Intellectual property conflicts in higher education -- Intellectual property conflicts and electronic courses -- Conclusions.

ISBN

• 0773456619
• 9780773456617

LCCN

^^2006048841

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library