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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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use of University facilities, resources, or financial support, these productions belong to the University. In the case of patents, detailed administrative procedures and guide lines are outlined for the determination of the University's rights and for deciding what share, if any, of the net income realized from patents should go to the inventor. No such administrative procedures or guide lines are specified in the case of copyrights, although Section 10 (on the University Press, page 49) does refer to contracts with authors concerning royalties and other conditions related to the publication and copyrighting of manuscripts. No reference is made in The General Rules Concerning University Organisation and Procedure concerning recordings of lectures and other content on such media as film and magnetic tape; yet the rapid increase in the use of these media — especially in the form of videotaped recording of instruction for presentation by television — has raised serious questions concerning University, departmental, and faculty rights relative to the production, ownership, and use of such material. Typically, an instructor develops a set of videotaped lectures for his own course, as part of his regular departmental duties and usually with a substantial reduction in teaching load. Since he is paid to do the work, and since University facilities are used, the University's right to ownership of the recordings could hardly be questioned. After a lengthy study, the University Committee on Instructional Television has recommended policies and general procedures for the resolution of questions and issues which may arise in determination of the equitable interests involved. The Committee's proposals have been reviewed and approved in principle by the Academic Advisory Council. In the light of these studies, the Executive VicePresident and Provost recommends the following revisions in Section 19 of The General Rules Concerning University Organisation and Procedure (the new material below is in italics).

COPYRIGHTS AND RECORDINGS

Sec. 19. ( a ) The right to copyright a work or to assign this right to a publisher normally belongs to the author of the work. However, when the author is specifically commissioned by the University or one of its departments to prepare a manuscript or report, the manuscript and all rights to it shall belong to the University. (b) Research and service pamphlets and bulletins may or may not be copyrighted, at the discretion of the department issuing the work. (c) Books published by the University Press are copyrighted as provided in Section 10. (d) All rights in recordings of lectures, of demonstrations, and of other content— such as films and videotapes — that have been produced with the use of University facilities, resources, or financial support shall belong to the University. (e) If the University uses or markets copyrighted or recorded material produced by a staff member under the conditions outlined in the second sentence of (a) and (d), and if such disposition is made on a basis that yields a net income to the University, a proportion of the net income may be assigned to the author(s) or developer(s) of the material. (f) A University Committee on Copyrights and Recordings, appointed by the President, will review the circumstances involved in each case that might arise under the principle stated in (e), and make recommendation concerning it to the President and Board of Trustees. It is expected that the Committee will be guided in its recommendations by standards analogous to those stated in Section 18 (c) (page 60) concerning patents. I concur.

On motion of Mr. Swain, these revisions were approved.

CLINICAL TRAINING FOR L I C E N S E D PRACTICAL N U R S E PROGRAM (14) The Chicago Public Schools have been providing a training program for "Licensed Practical Nurse" since 1948. Students in this program receive clinical training in a number of hospitals in Chicago. The Chicago Board of Education has requested the University to provide the clinical setting for ward experience in obstetrics and pediatrics in the Research and Educational Hospitals for a limited number of these practical nurse students.