All of these rights should be addressed in a contract . If you would like to use the form below to analyze who owns a copyright work, please keep in mind that it is designed for works that faculty or staff members on a University campus might create. For example, ownership of rights in a movie production would be beyond the form's capacity to respond. If you are just beginning to create a work, please take advantage of our Courseware Contracts form to generate a draft contract . An author is someone who contributes copyrightable expression to the work.
Copyrightable expression is original authorship, fixed in a tangible medium of expression.
If there are multiple contributors, clear the form after initial submission and repeat the process for each contributing author to determine who joint owners of a work may be. A component of the U.T. System. An employer unaffiliated with the U.T. System. Finally, we must know whether the author has entered a contract that changes any of this. A common example might be a third party sponsorship agreement related to the author's contribution that characterizes the author's work as a deliverable under the contract and transfers copyright to the sponsor.