Highlights the intellectual-property issues that will confront telecommunications networks, participating universities, and other programming contributors who produce and distribute educational programming via telecommunications. Suggests measures that can help shield these entities from copyright liability. (MLF)

Considers the demands the National Information Infrastructure will place on United States copyright law. Briefly reviews current copyright laws, then summarizes those areas that will be subject to the closest scrutiny in the process of adapting these laws to the future of telecommunications. (MLF)

Considers the complex roles encompassed in the job of college English professor, including researcher and teacher. Discusses three basic schools of writing traditions. Proposes a model of writing based on collaborative principles blurring disciplinary boundaries, resulting in intellectual property as literacy. (HB)

Argues that liberal universities are threatened by the development and extension of national and international intellectual property regimes which diminish the university's ability to draw on the intellectual commons and fulfill its public service mission. Strategies to ensure the liberal university's survival include pursuing broad intellectual…

Examines definitions of ownership relevant to faculty's intellectual property. Highlights exclusive rights that copyright owners hold under Section 106 of the 1976 Copyright Act. Notes university initiatives looking into the question of intellectual property. Provides examples of "significant" resources which in the case of public…

Argues that students' attitudes about authorship and intellectual property rights are evidence of cultural habits of mind. Overviews perceptions of literary products as public and/or private property. Explores conflicts in legal notions of textual ownership relating to copyrights and the idea/expression dichotomy in American Constitutional law.…

Explains the work for hire doctrine and describes the circumstances under which it has been applied in academic workplaces. Enables readers to recognize and understand the legal concepts surrounding work for hire. Explicates related case law and suggests treatment of work for hire by instructors and administrators in rhetoric and technical…

Discusses the controversy over the arrangement between UMI, a company that stores, reproduces, and sells master's theses and doctoral dissertations, and the commercially based online retailer, Contentville.com. Both American and Canadian scholars have been surprised to find their work being offered, without their permission, for sale online by…

Asserts that many faculty resist distance education, especially for undergraduates; they regard face-to-face as necessary but ignore its quality; they consider good teaching to be faculty centered; their property rights claims seek to preserve their professional role rather than the syllabus itself. (SK)

Describes how universities try, and sometimes fail, to prevent the revenue based on lucrative licenses from being lost when professors or graduate students commercialize inventions themselves. (EV)

Explores whether plagiarism-detection services such as Turnitin.com, which keeps copies of submitted papers in a database, are trampling students' rights for the sake of academic integrity. (EV)

Discusses the need for intellectual property policies for higher education that relate to digital class environments for distance learning. Considers faculty ownership of course materials and presents preliminary results of a survey that investigated the development of institutional policies regarding intellectual property. (LRW)

These six articles discuss various issues relating to digital libraries. Highlights include public access to digital materials; intellectual property concerns; the need for collaboration across disciplines; Greenstone software for construction and presentation of digital information collections; the Colorado Digitization Project; and conferences…

In building capacity in research commercialisation and science-based entrepreneurship, Australia has adopted neither the Swedish top-down approach depending on government initiative, nor the American bottom-up approach depending on incentive systems related to university ownership of intellectual property and a highly competitive and…

Everyone knows that plagiarism among high school and college students is so pervasive that combating it has become cottage industry. One solution to this problem is for teachers to purchase or subscribe to plagiarism detection computer programs. Many students and adults seem to have little awareness of or little regard for intellectual property.…