M.I.T. OWNED
(a) Patents, copyrights on software, maskworks, and tangible research property and trademarks developed by faculty, students, staff and others, including visitors participating in M.I.T. programs or using M.I.T. funds or facilities, are owned by M.I.T. when either of the following applies:
(1) The intellectual property was developed in the course of or pursuant to a sponsored research agreement with M.I.T.; or
(2) The intellectual property was developed with significant use of funds or facilities administered by M.I.T., as defined in Section 2.1.2.
(b) All copyrights, including copyrighted software, will be owned by M.I.T. when it is created as a "work for hire" as defined by copyright law, (see Section 2.1.3) or created pursuant to a written agreement with M.I.T. providing for transfer of copyright or ownership to M.I.T.
INVENTOR/AUTHOR OWNED
Inventors/Authors will own patents/copyrights/materials when none of the situations defined above for M.I.T.-Ownership of intellectual property applies.
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M.I.T. does not construe the use of office, library, machine shop or Project Athena personal desktop work stations and communication and storage servers as constituting significant use of M.I.T. space or facilities, nor construe the payment of salary from unrestricted accounts as constituting significant use of M.I.T. funds, except in those situations where the funds were paid specifically to support the development of certain materials.
See: http://web.mit.edu/tlo/www/community/guide2.html#2.1
M.I.T. OWNED (a) Patents, copyrights on software, maskworks, and tangible research property and trademarks developed by faculty, students, staff and others, including visitors participating in M.I.T. programs or using M.I.T. funds or facilities, are owned by M.I.T. when either of the following applies: (1) The intellectual property was developed in the course of or pursuant to a sponsored research agreement with M.I.T.; or (2) The intellectual property was developed with significant use of funds or facilities administered by M.I.T., as defined in Section 2.1.2. (b) All copyrights, including copyrighted software, will be owned by M.I.T. when it is created as a "work for hire" as defined by copyright law, (see Section 2.1.3) or created pursuant to a written agreement with M.I.T. providing for transfer of copyright or ownership to M.I.T.
INVENTOR/AUTHOR OWNED Inventors/Authors will own patents/copyrights/materials when none of the situations defined above for M.I.T.-Ownership of intellectual property applies.
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