Developed course alone
If you developed the course alone, you retain all intellectual property rights.
Used significant university resources to develop course
If you developed the course using significant university resources, you share intellectual property rights with NAU. Sharing the rights means that when you leave NAU, you may take the course with you and academic units may continue to use and modify the course.
Created course components developed by the e-Learning Center
The course developer cannot claim copyright on course components developed by the e-Learning Center. NAU owns any course materials (i.e., graphics, media, video) created by the e-Learning Center; however, NAU allows you to use them.
Received NAU stipend to develop course
Course developers who are awarded a development stipend from NAU Distance Learning or the e-Learning Center sign a web course development agreement that contains the following section about intellectual property:
Intellectual Property
Consistent with the Intellectual Property Policy of the Arizona Board of Regents, 6-908 (Rev. 9/99), for courses that have been developed with significant use of university resources, the Course Developer retains ownership of intellectual property developed by the Course Developer and has first right of refusal to teach the course while still employed by NAU. NAU retains the following rights:
- A nonexclusive perpetual license to use the course for education, research, or public service. The Course Developer's academic unit may assign instructors other than the Course Developer to teach the course (subject to the previously stated first right of refusal) and may use the course as originally developed or with modifications. The academic unit may also choose not to use the course in the future.
- The right to control the use of the NAU Logo in all uses of the course.
- The right to require an appropriate acknowledgment of NAU institutional support of the creation of the work.
- The right to be informed in advance of any uses, reproductions, distributions and dispositions of the copyrighted work by the Course Developer(s).
