Courseware Contracts

TeleCampus Funded Joint Creation and Ownership Agreement

These are the questions you should answer to complete a draft
Telecampus Funded Joint Creation and Ownership Agreement.

When should the Agreement be effective?
Author's Name:
Additional Authors:	Use commas to separate.
Author's Street Address:
Author's City/State/Zip:
Name of Institution:
Name of your course:
Name of TeleCampus' online offering of which your course will be a part:	If you do not have this information, or if your course is a free-standing module, leave the text box above empty.
What is the URL for the Work Schedule for this project?	www.telecampus.utsystem.edu/downloads/
Describe the TeleCampus's resource contributions to the Work. Check all that apply:	Funding in the amount of $ Graphics Instructional design Production assistance Course maintenance and backup Marketing to prospective students Other
Describe the University's resource contributions to the Work. Check all that apply:	Materials Hardware Software Technical assistance Other assistance Videotaping Programming Teaching load credit (release time) Funding
Is the Work likely to have commercial potential?	Yes
	If yes, who will have responsibility to market and license the Work?
		University Faculty author Both
	If the Work is commercialized, what dollar amount of University contribution to the creation of the Work shall University recover from profits? Certain amounts or types of University contributions are considered ordinary or insignificant. For example, fixed costs such as salaries usually are spent without regard to a particular project. Universities should identify and recover significant resource expenditures.
	$ Dollar amount to recover.
	Shall University recover its contribution: before profits are shared with all joint owners, or through profit sharing with all other joint owners?
	How shall profits be shared? 50% to the University and 50% to all Authors (to be shared evenly among the Authors if more than one) Other (describe)
How often should the Work be reviewed and revised to keep it current in accordance with academic standards?
How long should the parties cooperate on these shared responsibilities (marketing, licensing and revising)?
Basic Assumptions: This agreement contemplates that the Work will be a multimedia courseware product or other educational material, authored by one or more faculty authors with other University non-faculty employees. It is assumed that the content of the Work would be largely original. If any of these basic assumptions is wrong for a particular Work, please so indicate and provide a short statement of the special circumstances that distinguish the Work.
	Some basic assumptions are wrong.

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Courseware Contracts

TeleCampus Funded Joint Creation and Ownership Agreement

These are the questions you should answer to complete a draft Telecampus Funded Joint Creation and Ownership Agreement.

When should the Agreement be effective?

Author's Name:

Additional Authors:

Author's Street Address:

Author's City/State/Zip:

Name of Institution:

Name of your course:

Name of TeleCampus' online offering of which your course will be a part:

What is the URL for the Work Schedule for this project?

Describe the TeleCampus's resource contributions to the Work. Check all that apply:

Describe the University's resource contributions to the Work. Check all that apply:

Is the Work likely to have commercial potential?

If yes, who will have responsibility to market and license the Work?

If the Work is commercialized, what dollar amount of University contribution to the creation of the Work shall University recover from profits?

Shall University recover its contribution:

How shall profits be shared?

How often should the Work be reviewed and revised to keep it current in accordance with academic standards?

How long should the parties cooperate on these shared responsibilities (marketing, licensing and revising)?

Some basic assumptions are wrong.

These are the questions you should answer to complete a draft
Telecampus Funded Joint Creation and Ownership Agreement.

When should the
Agreement be effective?

Describe the TeleCampus's resource contributions
to the Work. Check all that apply:

Describe the University's resource contributions
to the Work. Check all that apply: