Intellectual Property, Faculty Rights and the Public Good New Directions for Higher Education, Number 177

• Presents policy trends in university IP regulation over the past 40 years,
• Examines the utility of IP rights in higher education,
• Considers the implications of knowledge ownership in the academic profession. and
• Details the IP barriers that faculty encounter when attempting to share their work.

Adrianna Kezar is professor of higher education at the University of Southern California's Rossier School of Education.

EDITORS’ NOTES 5
Samantha Bernstein-Sierra, Adrianna Kezar

1. The Legalization of Higher Education 11
Lara K. Badke

A comprehensive introduction to higher education’s legal context, from which the rise of legalistic criteria (or “legalization”) and current IP regime have grown

2. Faculty Rights to Courses and Digital Courseware 25
Shafiqa Ahmadi

A legal analysis of faculty rights to traditional and digital course materials, including a discussion of fair use and the work-made-for-hire doctrine

3. Faculty Rights to Scholarly Research 39
Molly Kleinman

This chapter provides a discussion of faculty rights to their scholarly work, with emphasis on the role of for profit publishers and the rise of open access scholarly publishing.

4. “Owning” Knowledge: Looking Beyond Politics to Find the Public Good 51
Samantha Bernstein-Sierra

A theoretical discussion of openness as a movement in higher education, facilitated by technology, with its own set of values tied closely to the public good

5. Negotiating Whose Property It Is, for the Public Good 63
Gary Rhoades

An empirical examination of public good values as they are, or are not, expressed in the intellectual property policies of public and private universities

6. University Faculty and the Value of Their Intellectual Property: Comparing IP in Teaching and Research 77
Guilbert C. Hentschke

A global economic analysis of faculty rights to their teaching and research, and the monetary values associated with various types of intellectual property in academe

7. Faculty Voice in Intellectual Property Policies: Collective Action for the Public Good 93
Adrianna Kezar

A synthesis of all chapters, and practical discussion of the book’s ramifications for faculty members in the academy

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