[game_edu] Student IP Ownership

[Roberts, Scott]

Hi Gregory,

At DePaul all students (or faculty) retain full IP rights, regardless of whether they're working on a class or club project.  This can cause some complications when you have a large team negotiating with a publisher.   The students who created Devil's Tuning Fork signed an IP agreement (created by Joe Linhoff) amongst themselves to pool their negotiating rights prior to forming a company.  Let me know if you want any further details.

Scott

Scott Roberts
Associate Professor
School of Cinema & Interactive Media
DePaul University 
SRoberts at CIM.DePaul.edu 

http://GameDev.DePaul.edu/ 


-----Original Message-----
From: game_edu-bounces at igda.org [mailto:game_edu-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of Gregory Walek
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:27 AM
To: IGDA Game Education Listserv
Subject: Re: [game_edu] Student IP Ownership

I'm working on establishing IP rules regarding student work created in
our department.

What I'm looking for:
* Examples where students retain rights to monetize their work.
* Examples on how to deal with IP ownership when work is created in
team.

This is what I'm not looking for:
* A discussion of who retains rights and why. I've already have a goal
and trying to target it. 
* Examples of where the school retains all rights on the work. (As most
graduate schools do.)
* Art school examples (such as studio commission policies) do not help
me. 


A tangent of this issue, has the Education Sig worked on any of these
issues yet? Do we have a collection of policies \ types of policies that
exist.


Gregory Walek
NHTI AGGP


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