From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:36:31 -0500 It might be a problem if the universities, as employers, claimed ownership of their faculty's copyrights. Generally, however, those copyrights are transferred to the publishers, who become the owners and therefore have a vested interest in protecting their property. How is this situation you describe different from a professor who writes a popular song being indirectly implicated in a suit brought by a member of the RIAA against the professor's university for infringing copyright by reproducing it without permission? Sandy Thatcher At 5:17 PM -0700 4/14/13, Heather Morrison wrote: > This post explores whether Access Copyright and other copyright collectives participating in the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organizations, in suing universities over "intellectual property", inadvertently and indirectly put university scholars in the position of inadvertently and indirectly suing their employers. If so, there are some interesting implications. > > http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.ca/2013/04/access-copyright-lawsuit-are-some-of-us.html > > Dr. Heather Morrison > Freedom for scholarship in the internet age > http://summit.sfu.ca/item/12537