1. Policy on Intellectual Property (AS-944-14/FPPC)
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Policy on Intellectual Property (AS /FPPC)
Main topics:
ownership of intellectual property
use rights (usage rights) for intellectual property
not patents
Different conditions under which intellectual property is produced:
individual faculty work
University resources customarily provided
extraordinary support/exceptional University resources
work for hire/commissioned work

2. Policy on Intellectual Property (AS-944-14/FPPC)
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Policy on Intellectual Property (AS /FPPC)
Main issues:
How can the policy best promote technological and pedagogical innovation and incentivize both University and faculty?
How will this policy affect how classes are assigned in the future, particularly among the tenure-line faculty, among lecturer faculty, and between those two groups?
Who should own
IP created by groups of faculty,
IP created by groups including students, and
IP created for CCPE?
Who should benefit from the commercialization of IP?
Should there be an IP committee, and what would be the charge of that committee?

3. Policy on Intellectual Property (AS-944-14/FPPC)
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Policy on Intellectual Property (AS /FPPC)
Different ways to think about this policy:
all rights for university  all rights for faculty
very restrictive  very generous
common practice  unusual practice
promoting innovation  inhibiting innovation
inhibiting innovation  promoting innovation
Keep in mind that we all want the same thing here:
the best possible conditions
for excellent teaching and productive research!!!