Highlights of Faculty Task Force Recommendations : Intellectual Property

Guarantee faculty the fuller ownership rights and protections available at many top-tier universities.
Guarantee control to faculty Principal Investigators in sponsored research.
Reduce bureaucracy and delays by requiring disclosure only on items of potential commercial value.
Guarantee faculty ownership when significant university resources are not involved.
Guarantee faculty an equitable share of proceeds when the university declares an interest in the work/invention.
Guarantee that when the university shares proceeds, faculty nonetheless retain the right to be identified as the creator, use the work in new teaching or research projects, use the work with a new employer, be informed in advance of any uses to be made by the university, and have approval over all decisions related to the publishing or display of new versions of the work.
Guarantee faculty the right to place inventions in the public domain if in the best interest of technology transfer.
Guarantee faculty exclusive control of the publishing or display of their unpublished creations.
Guarantee faculty control over the use of instructional technology in their courses.
Guarantee that creations used for distance learning have the same protections as any other work or invention.
Prohibit any blanket waiver of a faculty memberís rights to his/her works and inventions.