Intellectual Property Task Group

Intellectual Property Task Group (IPTG)

Stakeholders

·       SUNY Provost

·       Chief Academic Officers

·       SUNY faculty and staff

Goals

·       Collect information about opportunities for faculty sharing of courses and other materials, including literary and other works of authorship.  Report on selected worldwide resources on open access standards, research, scholarship and service to students, faculty and the academic community.

·       Report on the sharing of intellectual property at institutions of higher education including but not limited to MIT, (OpenCourseWare) Rice University (Connexions Project) and potential international partners such as the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee.

·       Report on potential for SUNY interaction with K-12 through open access courses or instruction

·       Communicate with stakeholders at all levels throughout the system about best practices regarding content creation, digital rights management, etc.

·       Offer information to faculty regarding protection and ownership of their works of original authorship.

·       Suggest administrative means of encouraging faculty to make their works available in an open access.

·       Propose an attractive, easily accessible and easily organized space for input of faculty work to be shared with others.

Expected Outcomes/Deliverables

·       Collect and share best practices related to ownership, licensing and use of faculty authorship throughout SUNY and elsewhere

·       Propose an open source presentation at CIT involving faculty, librarians, instructional technologists and others.

Team

David Lavallee, University Provost,Sponsor

Carey Hatch, Associate Provost for Academic Technology & Information Systems
Janet Nepkie, Oneonta, Chair
Lisa Stephens, (FACT2 Chair)

Additional member(s) will be recruited via interaction with previous task group efforts, through the FACT campus representative listserv and by invitation.

Benefit or value to the SUNY System and SUNY Campuses
Ownership of faculty/staff works of authorship is a topic of continuing and growing interest.

SUNY faculty have an interest in sharing their materials without losing control of them, and the university will enhance its worldwide reputation by initiating a system of shared learning with other scholars, K-12 and the general public in a cost-effective, sustainable and timely manner.

Online learning depends on organized content that can be disseminated appropriately. Standard licensing, subscription and other models are being re-defined in new ways for an online world. SUNY faculty need to be aware of best practices and able to understand intellectual property guidelines for use in teaching and learning and other scholarship.

Assumptions:

·       SUNY faculty own their original works of authorship, unless specifically created as a 'work for hire' as established in SUNY policy.

·       Commercial and open source publishing business models regarding content are evolving rapidly.

·       SUNY faculty and staff, including librarians, need to be aware of trends and future directions to implement changes and move SUNY beyond present practice.

·       Faculty and institutional reputation can be enhanced through increased and faculty-approved access to faculty work

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Communication Plan and Engagement of Stakeholders

·       Provide access to ongoing data collection and open source trends/models through the SUNY website, appropriate publications, the University Faculty Senate, the FACTT web site, the Confluence wiki site, and other traditional and digital dissemination channels.

·       Report out the activities of the IP Task Force in one or more sessions of the annual SUNY CIT conference.

·       Invite participation of other respected institutions of higher education

·       Invite participation from business, legal and cultural communities

·       Recommend next steps.

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