[game_edu] Student IP Ownership - Example Documents

[Ian Schreiber]

The complete IP ownership policy for SCAD is here:
https://www.scad.edu/programs/intellectual-property.cfm

It's written in legalese, but the short version is:
* If you do paid work for the school to create stuff using school funds and 
resources, the school owns it.
* Otherwise, if you're just a student doing original work for a class, you own 
it. You grant the school a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use the work 
to promote itself (this is the way for us to say "hey, look at the cool stuff 
our students can do" without stepping on copyright).

In some other schools I've worked for, there was no IP policy at all that I knew 
of. Presumably this would mean that IP created by students (except as 
work-for-hire by the university) would remain with them, since that's the 
default legal condition. That said, even in those cases I could see the use for 
having an official policy, if only to use as a selling point for student 
recruitment.

Hope that helps,
- Ian



      
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