#copyright question for all you nice people!
My university (in Italy) has moved to online classes, using microsoft TEAMS, for the coronavirus outbreak.
They published a regulation saying that all content from a class, which is a conference so everyone can chime in talk and show, is copyright of the university.
Now that sounds weird, I would have expected each person to own the copyright to its own contribution, since we didn't sign nothing for it, and the university to own dick bupkis.
Could someone help me here? Is the university trying to bullshit us?
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@arteteco Most universities, at least in the USA, have soemthing all students sign when they register that basically says anything they produce for a class or using university resources is property of the university.
In fact the university I went to was unique in the sense that they actually gave students a percentage of any project they do that makes money for some reason.
@arteteco country?
@arteteco oh. Italy. No idea.
@arteteco Welcome to Academia!!!
@arteteco If you are employee of the university, it's probably part of your contract.
The same way as code of employed coder is owned by his employer..
@arteteco It is unusual to claim ownership of uploaded content. It used to be more common, because lawyers said they needed to own the content to be able to display it. But more recently, the university just acquired a non-exclusive license to publish.
I would respond by stating this and reminding them that if they own the content then they are legally liable for it, as though they had posted it themselves.