[game_edu] Student IP Ownership

[Tom Dowd]

Columbia College Chicago does the same thing. Specifically related to the
senior team project, all members of the team share in ownership of the
project. We also have them sign an agreement amongst themselves that lays
out what they can and cannot do with the project, can and cannot claim, and
so on. The school's opinion is that if a student group is able to take their
project on to bigger and better things then the PR the school receives will
be ample for its part.

Tom Dowd
Columbia College Chicago
Game Major

http://game.colum.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: game_edu-bounces at igda.org [mailto:game_edu-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf
Of Roberts, Scott
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 2:00 PM
To: IGDA Game Education Listserv
Subject: Re: [game_edu] Student IP Ownership

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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