What copyright and ownership issues arise in distance education? Institutions
can take several possible approaches to copyright issues:
- Copyright in course materials may be assigned to the faculty members who develop them.
- Institutions commissioning materials may retain sole rights.
- Institutions may retain rights but provide for royalty payments to the developers.
- For materials developed collaboratively, one institution or all the collaborating
institutions may hold copyright.
Whichever approach is chosen, it is vital to ensure that the institutional policies are
clearly stated and consistently administered.
Copyright and ownership are primarily an institutional concern. But the trend toward
institutions' delivering distance teaching programs outside the region where they reside
increasingly makes this a national or even an international issue.
- More on Copyright and Ownership
Bulman, F. 1999. Taking the Copyright Debate into
Distance Education. Paper presented at the 1st National NADEOSA
Conference held 11-13 August 1999. This is a link to an external site
Gray, E. 1999. Copyright Taking
the Debate Into Distance Education A Publisher's Perspective. Paper
presented at the 1st National NADEOSA Conference held 11-13 August 1999. This is a
link to an external site
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