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FE's clearly more restrictive than HE. In the pre-92 HE institutions I've worked in, although officially any works created during the course of a job were considered copyright of the institution, for academics there was a concession that they retained authorship of any published papers and articles, including presumably OER content. For instance, I can think of many academic colleagues who wrote books stemming from their institutional work, and whilst the institution got a cut of the sales the colleagues retained copyright. The impression I get is that such an arrangement is commonplace in pre-92 academia, as part of the collegiate academic ethos whereby knowledge is shared in the academic community. Fred www.fredriley.org.uk On 9 March 2015 at 13:38, Tavis Reddick <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > For staff working in publicly-funded educational institutions, > presumably terms and conditions of employment have an impact on > enabling/disabling support for open educational resources (and other > aspects of open education, like open source coding). > > > > I am aware of a quite restrictive example (for support staff, not > specifically educators) which refers to works created “whether or not in > the course of your employment” being “the absolute property of the > College”. This would seemingly prevent private contributions to the world > of OER for those staff. > > > > Even assuming that the institution’s terms followed the standard practice > for copyright creation of resources > <http://www.atl.org.uk/help-and-advice/school-and-college/copyright.asp>, > there may be scope for expressing a preference that the licence these would > be made available under would be an open, rather than a commercial one. > > > > Are there any model terms and conditions of employment which demonstrate > how OER can be positively supported (in the UK and beyond)? > > > > > > Tavis Reddick > > Enterprise Systems Support Technologist > > ICT Services > > Stenton Campus, Glenrothes > > Fife College > > 01592 223313 > > [log in to unmask] > > www.fife.ac.uk > > > > ------------------------------ > > > The information contained within this e-mail is confidential and may be > privileged. It is intended for the addressee only. If you have received > this e-mail in error please inform the sender and delete this e-mail and > any attachments immediately. The contents of this e-mail must not be > disclosed or copied without the sender's consent. > > The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the > author and do not necessarily reflect those of the author's employer (the > College). The College does not take any responsibility for the views of the > author. > > The College, is a registered Scottish charity, No: SC021203 >