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New emphases on classroom research and on-line courses may allow a faculty member to simultaneously teach, carry out classroom research, and publish courses, course materials, data, scholarly papers and creative works to the World Wide Web. New questions thus arise as boundaries of teaching, research, creativity, and publication are becoming much less well defined. Even more relevant is the possibility of the movement of some faculty work from the traditional educational venues (Campus classrooms, research labs, theaters, studios and bethel.edu) to the commercialization of educational materials.

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TYPE OF WORK

INITIATED BY

RESOURCE ALLOCATION

Economic Benefit and Control of Work

Employee-initiated work

employee

ordinary

Employee

employee

extra-ordinary

Employee/Negotiable

Bethel-initiated work

Bethel

ordinary

Negotiable

Bethel or Bethel Contracted

extra-ordinary

Bethel University/ Negotiable

 


Policy Principles

  1. Faculty normally retain full copyright privileges, economic benefit, and control of work that is not initiated by the institution and that uses only those types and/or quantities of resources that are generally available to all faculty.
  2. The institution normally holds the copyright for materials that are deemed works for hire, are initiated by the institution, or that use types and/or quantities of resources not generally available to all faculty. However, for each such work, control and any economic benefit must be individually negotiated in advance. Failure to negotiate such agreements in advance will result in a default 50:50 control and economic benefit split between the institution and faculty member if/when such benefits accrue.
  3. Works that are created due to the normal expectations stated by promotion/tenure policy shall not be considered as works for hire.
  4. In the event of use of types and/or quantities of resources beyond those generally available to all faculty, the extent of such use shall be considered in determining the level of equitable sharing of any revenues.

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