Do students own the works that they produce under a TLtC grant?
According to the UC Policy on Copyright Ownership, students retain ownership and exclusive rights to their own independently created works. The University, therefore, does not claim any rights in the copyright protected works of undergraduates. Graduate students, on the other hand, are usually UC employees, and like all other UC employees are subject to “work-for-hire” requirements. If the student employee created TLtC materials as part of his/her job responsibilities, that work would belong to the University. On the other hand, if the student created these materials in his/her spare time, the student would be considered an author and share ownership in the work with the other collaborators and the University, assuming this material had nothing to do with his/her job description.
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