This is an interesting article dealing with a range of copyright and ownership  issues.

The recent drive towards commercial MOOCs, the re-examination of Open Educational Resources (OER) and the progressive leaking of class based resources into the online environment has cast a new light on ownership.  This article is based on the U.S experience but still worth a read.

http://campustechnology.com/articles/2013/10/16/who-owns-college-courses.aspx

If you work in an Australian university look at our Copyright site. It’s likely to say something like this.

Academics own their research and theses, unless assigned or licensed to another party. The university owns:

  • course materials
  • all materials produced by general staff
  • a work where intellectual property owned by the university has been utilised
  • multimedia items
  • computer programs created in association with a patentable invention
  • films or sound recordings produced with specific Monash funding or facilities