Who Owns the Intellectual Property Rights in Academic Work?

Pila, Justine

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Who Owns the Intellectual Property Rights in Academic Work?

Justine Pila

University of Oxford - Faculty of Law

May 31, 2010

European Intellectual Property Review, Vol. 2010, pp. 609–613
Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 49/2010

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In this Opinion piece the ownership of intellectual property rights in university teaching and research is considered against the backdrop of British university intellectual property policies and recent cases. Starting from the position of Lord Evershed that it is "just and commonsense" that academics own the copyright in their lectures, and by extension the copyright in their research, I consider the policy arguments for university claims of ownership in respect of such copyright and academic employees' inventions.

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Keywords: Intellectual Property, Ownership, Copyright, Patents, Inventions, Universities, Academics, Employees

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Date posted: July 19, 2010 ; Last revised: October 26, 2010

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Pila, Justine, Who Owns the Intellectual Property Rights in Academic Work? (May 31, 2010). European Intellectual Property Review, Vol. 2010, pp. 609–613; Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 49/2010. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1618172

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