Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1984 [PAGE 314]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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— Where the circumstances require University ownership, participation of staff authors shall be on the basis of their prior knowledge and consent. •— Copyright ownership in the works of University staff members shall vest the original author unless a specific and mutual agreement with the University provides otherwise. -— The University shall have at least the royalty-free right to use for its own internal programs any copyrightable works produced with the significant use of University resources. — Copyrightable works produced with the use of the University's P L A T O system shall be subject to the same policy as works produced in other media. On March 17, 1983, the board approved an interim PLATO policy pending review of the comprehensive new copyright policy by the University Senates Conference. The Senates Conference has now reviewed the new policy and recommends approval. The Committee on Copyrightable Works recommends the board approve the new comprehensive policy effective the date of the interim P L A T O action (March 17, 1983). I concur. The General Rules Concerning University Organization and Procedure

Article II, Section 5 and Section 9, Copyrights Sec. 5. (d) If conditions imposed by the sponsoring agency require the waiver of established University policies with respect to reimbursement of indirect costs or rights of publication, such conditions may be accepted by the University, if required by Federal law or regulation. Similar conditions may be accepted by the University for any other sponsor when the committee specified in paragraph (f) following determines such acceptance to be clearly in the interests of the University and the public. Sec. 9. C O P Y R I G H T S (a) Introduction. The policy of the University with regard to copyrightable works is intended to foster the traditional freedoms of the University's faculty, staff and students in matters of publication, through a fair and reasonable balance of the equities among authors, sponsors, and the University. At the same time, it is intended to ensure that copyrightable material in which the University has a legitimate interest is utilized in a manner consistent with the public interest. (b) Ownership. Ownership in copyrightable works produced by authors who are University staff members or students shall remain with the authors except in the following situations where ownership of all rights in copyrightable works produced shall belong to the University: (1) The terms of a University agreement with an external party require the University to hold or transfer ownership in the copyrightable work, or (2) Works expressly commissioned in writing by the University, or (3) Works created as a specific requirement of employment or as an assigned University duty. Such requirements or duties may be contained in a job description or an employment agreement which designates the content of the employee's University