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Copyright
Ownership Town Meetings Approximately 21 NC State University faculty, staff,
and students attended the first of 2 informational meetings on the
University and UNC System copyright ownership and use policies. The
first meeting was held in Bostian 2722 on Wednesday, April 26, 2000
and the second meeting was held on Wednesday, May 3, 2000, in Poe
216. Following are notes from the first meeting.
Introduction and Background
On a charge from Dr. Charles Moreland, Vice Chancellor
for Research, in 1998, NC State University formed a Copyright Ownership
Task Force to examine the existing university copyright ownership
policy and to make recommendations for changes. This group was formed
prior to Provost Hall’s arrival.
The Task Force maintains a Website with information on membership, charge, meeting agendas, minutes, and relevant events at http://www.ncsu.edu/provost/governance/task_forces/COTF/. Since his arrival, Dr. Hall has met and worked with the Task Force in drafting copyright ownership policy recommendations for NC State. The NC State University Copyright Ownership Task Force has held 3 moderately-attended town meetings—2 on the main campus, and 1 on the Veterinary Medical Campus--to gather input from interested faculty, staff, and students. Several administrative and faculty committees have seen the draft policy recommendationsand have contributed feedback. On November 5, 1999, the University of North Carolina General Administration held a Faculty Assembly Copyright Colloquium at which invited representatives from the 16 UNC institutions discussed their priorities and concerns about their institution’s ownership and use policy. A summary of this colloquium is on the Web. Shortly after the Faculty Assembly Copyright Colloquium, a system-level Intellectual Property Task Force was formed to draft a systemwide policy framework on copyright ownership and use. Peggy Hoon, NCSU Libraries Scholarly Communication Librarian, and Mark Crowell of the NC State University Office of Technology Transfer and Industry Research, are the university’s representatives to this system task force. The UNC Intellectual Property Task Force is composed of 4 subcommittees—use, ownership, technology transfer, and education. Hoon and Crowell chair the use and ownership subcommittees, respectively. The task force meets every month. Its initial deadline was March, but work continues. The last scheduled meeting of this group is May 3, 2000. For issues of ownership, the task force will essentially reaffirm existing policy regarding "traditional" and "works-for-hire"—that is, textbooks and course materials borne from faculty independent research and contracted works. For the "middle ground" works—Web course materials, for example--the draft policy shifts the focus to the instigation and impetus for a project in determining copyright ownership. The draft policy section on use seeks to implement principles of the "fair use" section of the copyright law. It will include among other documents, a copyright primer and a "fair use" analysis worksheet. The policy has not yet been presented to President Broad, and many details of its implementation are still uncertain. |
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