Nov 21, 2024  
Fall 2024 Faculty Handbook 
    
Fall 2024 Faculty Handbook
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POLICY 4.12.8.8 - Assignment of Rights


In the case of externally-sponsored and institutional works when the university retains copyright or patent ownership, the university may assign its rights to the creator(s) of such works or to any third party for the purposes of commercialization. The university will consider the assignment of rights to the creator(s) when, after seven years, the university has not made use of those works. In any assignment of rights, the university shall retain a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide, royalty free license to use and reproduce the copyrightable or patentable works for its own non-commercial purposes and to preserve such royalty free license for the creators of such works as provided in this policy.



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