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- a. Use at the University - An Employee may use Software and Electronic/Digital Works he or she develops or creates in the normal course of employment at the University, including the right to make changes to the Software and Electronic/Digital Works and to distribute the Software and Electronic/Digital Works to students, faculty, and other personnel at the University for teaching, research and other noncommercial University purposes.
- b. Academic use outside the University - Subject to receiving any necessary approval, an Employee may use Software and Electronic/Digital Works at other academic or not-for-profit research institutions for noncommercial purposes as part of ordinary scholarly exchanges, including visiting professorships and guest lectures, as long as the activities comply with University and Board policies on conflict of interest and conflict of commitment (including provisions requiring approval by the appropriate dean or department head), and as long as the activities do not include or allow commercializing the Software and Electronic/Digital Work. The appropriate department head or dean must approve in advance the use of any Board-owned Software and Electronic/Digital Works by an Employee teaching or creating any course or courseware outside the University. For Software and Electronic/Digital Works released to the Employee by the University, the University's name may not be used in connection with such Software and Electronic/Digital Works other than to identify the Employee as an Employee at the University.
- c. Commercial use outside the University - For Board-owned Software and Electronic/Digital Works not released to the Employee, the Employee must obtain prior approval from the appropriate department head or dean before teaching or creating any course or courseware using the Software and Electronic/Digital Works for any commercial enterprise, and must obtain prior approval from OTT or the IP Official before commercializing Software and Electronic/Digital Works created or used at the University. Any such use must be consistent with University and Board policies on conflict of interest, conflict of commitment, and use of the University's name. For Software and Electronic/Digital Works released to an Employee, that Employee may commercialize the works outside the University without permission of the University as long as the University's name is not used in connection with the works other than to identify the Employee as an Employee at the University and the release included permission from the University for such commercial use. The University will not commercialize Software and Electronic/Digital Works without the knowledge and input of the Employee(s) who created the Software and Electronic/Digital Works in question so long as they remain at the University.
- d. Use after departing the University - An Employee who leaves the University may use any Software and Electronic/Digital Works that he or she created while at the University as long as the use is at another academic or not-for-profit research institution, and limited to teaching, research, and other noncommercial purposes. With respect to Software and Electronic/Digital Works released to a former Employee, that Employee may make commercial use of and create new works based the Software and Electronic/Digital Works as long as the Employee does not use the University's name in connection with the works other than to identify himself or herself as a former Employee.||||style="vertical-align: top;" width="20%"|Courseware definitions:
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This policy is long, convoluted, and contradictory. It first states that everything created on the university belongs to the university. Then it carves out many convoluted exceptions to that general rule.
