3.2   Intellectual Property

As a general policy, KCTCS has exclusive ownership of inventions, patents, curricula, instructional devices, computer software, books, and other materials developed in whole or in part by faculty, staff, or students in the course of their regular KCTCS employment (including paid sabbatical leaves) or through the use of KCTCS funds, facilities or equipment. Any member of the faculty, staff, or student body who produces such intellectual property using KCTCS funds, facilities or other resources shall assign personal rights to the property to KCTCS, but shall retain an interest in and a right to share in any financial returns from the commercialization of the property.

 

It is the specific policy of KCTCS that the traditional products of scholarly activity, such as journal articles, textbooks, reviews, monographs, works of art, sculpture, music, and course materials (for example, syllabi, workbooks, and laboratory manuals), shall be the unrestricted property of the author. KCTCS will exert no ownership claim of such works. A Standing Committee on Intellectual Property, appointed by the KCTCS President and including KCTCS legal counsel and representation from KCTCS faculty, staff, and students, will administer the policy and oversee implementation of the procedures.