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Copyrights

The University owns all rights to all copyrightable materials (including computer programs, software, or multi-media productions) that are works made for hire under copyright law or that are required to be assigned to the University by the contract terms of a grant or sponsored program. However, consistent with long-standing academic tradition, the University does not normally claim ownership of works such as textbooks, articles, papers, scholarly monographs, or artistic works. Creators, therefore, retain rights in copyright in their works, unless they are created under a grant or sponsored program that specifies ownership rights in some entity other than the creator, they are the subject of a contract modifying ownership rights, or they are otherwise addressed in this Policy.

When the University commissions a work or otherwise causes a work to be developed that is a work made for hire under copyright law, but the creator is an employee whose position is not normally considered to be one immediately related to the production of copyrightable works for the University, the creator will be required to acknowledge the University's ownership of the work in writing before production of the work.

Creators of works, such as computer software, that are not works made for hire but that are developed with the use of University facilities or resources agree, consistent with other relevant agreements or contracts, to grant to the University a paid-up, royalty-free, non-exclusive license for the use of the work for academic, research, or other scholarly purposes.

Creators may, in certain circumstances, choose to assign their ownership interest in copyrightable works to the University. In these cases, royalty income derived from the work will be shared with the creator as specified in this policy or in any other written agreement with the University.

The copyright policy is included in the complete Intellectual Property Policy of the University of Notre Dame at http://www.nd.edu/~research/policies/IP.html.

Date last reviewed Jan 2003