Intellectual property, faculty rights and the public good
By: Samantha Bernstein-Sierra, Adrianna Kezar, editors
Series: New directions for higher education -- number 177, Spring 2017; New directions for higher education -- no. 177.
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; Jossey-Bass
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 105
ISBN-13: 9781119377719; 9781119377740; 9781119377757
Subjects: Intellectual property; Law and legislation; Universities and colleges; Academic freedom
Description: "This monograph explores the different forms that intellectual property (IP) has taken in higher education in recent years and how to navigate the changing landscape for faculty members and university administrators. Due to technological advancements and the rise of neo-liberal policies influenced by academic capitalism, faculty members are finding their rights being renegotiated, often without their input.  Through patents, copyrights, distance education programs and MOOCS, universities and publishers are seeking to gain a competitive advantage in a market largely dominated by profit generation. All this is putting the university's public mission in tension with increasingly profit-driven university management practices. This volume 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."--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Editors' notes / Samantha Bernstein-Sierra, Adrianna Kezar; title: The legalization of higher education / Lara K. Badke; title: Faculty rights to courses and digital courseware / Shafiqa Ahmadi; title: Faculty rights to scholarly research / Molly Kleinman; title: "Owning" knowledge : looking beyond politics to find the public good / Samantha Bernstein-Sierra; title: Negotiating whose property it is, for the public good / Gary Rhoades; title: University faculty and the value of their intellectual property : comparing IP in teaching and research / Guilbert C. Hentschke; title: Faculty voice in intellectual property policies : collective action for the public good / Adrianna Kezar.