When the investment of time and money by the author and the university differs substantially from that involved in the creation of customary educational material, as defined by departmental norms, such material shall be designated as university-sponsored and the university may claim copyright. B. Copyright Owner . C. Publication . Publication occurs when by consent of the copyright owner the original or tangible copies of a work are sold, leased, loaned, given away, or otherwise made available to the general public. D. Sale .
Sale occurs when copyrightable materials are made available for consideration.
The university does not claim copyright on material resulting from customary teaching, research, scholarly and artistic activities such as scholarly articles, research bulletins, monographs, paintings, musical and dramatic compositions, sculptures, architectural designs, books, textbooks, submissions to scientific and technical journals, reference works and the like, and the preparation and taping of lectures or other instructional units. Exceptions to this are defined in Section B below. B. University Sponsor 1. Such works shall be regarded as university-sponsored works for hire. The university reserves the right to claim copyright in university-sponsored works subject to the procedures described in this paragraph.