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The Coming Copyright Clash in Higher Education

Copycense

Colleges and universities, however, have a major trump card to play to reduce the costs of higher education: they can reverse their longstanding custom against claiming work made for hire status.

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Guest Book Review: Teaching Intellectual Property Law

The IPKat

For example, under ‘eliminating hunger’ the class would explore patented seeds, and medical drugs as part of the ‘good healthcare’ task, all of which get the students to think about power imbalance, private and public funding, and questions of where ownership of key commodities should lie.

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Clash of Colleagues: The Battle for Academic Attribution

BYU Copyright Blog

Wilder alleged that Hoiland had used course materials created by Wilder for a faculty development program, Numeracy Infusion Course for Higher Education (NICHE), in five slides of a presentation Hoiland gave at the Community College Conference on Learning Assessment (CCCLA).

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When is an IP agreement between a university and a student inventor unfair?

The IPKat

Unfairness in a DPhil contract can be assessed in reference to the intellectual property rights terms in other higher-education institutions. Claiming ownership of all intellectual property devised made or created by student members “in the course of or incidentally to their studies” would be considered an overbroad term.

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Introducing a zero-embargo Secondary Publication Right in Bulgaria

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Apart from ownership over academic works in an employment setting, another issue that would require further detail is the practical implementation of the new SPR mechanism. What’s next?

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National Intellectual Property Rights Conference 2023 – Day 1

Intepat

The session also acknowledged the pivotal role played by a robust IP regime in India’s expansion and innovation, facilitated by legislative reforms and escalated investments in higher education. which have raised questions about the ownership and protection of AI-generated content.

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Protecting Indigenous Traditional Knowledge Using An Approach Based On Holistic Principle

IP and Legal Filings

x] It is challenging to accurately identify and follow the knowledge holders [xi] , partly because complex group ownership. A “community rights regime,” in which Indigenous Peoples possess ownership rights to TK instead of a small number of capitalist proprietors [xvi] , is one concept.