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Reflections
Kranch, D. A. (2008). Who owns online course intellectual…
Reflections
Kranch, D. A. (2008). Who owns online course intellectual property? The Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 9(4), 349-356.
Options 
Unions negotiate on behalf of all faculty
Proportional ownership and revenue entitlement
Each faculty member negotiate rights separately
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Keep the current patchwork of system and conflicting legal precedents
"Faculty develop intellectual property needed fo online courses while employed by an academic institution. That institution has a claim on the copyright because the instructional materials developed by the faculty members could bed seen as "works for hire." On the other hand, both tradition and case law have seen faculty as the copyright possessors of any instructional materials they develop (Kranch, 2008, p349).
Reflection: I find it fascinating that there isn't any universally accepted resolution on the ownership of academic materials created for online courses. Precedents for ownership of traditional course materials are largely set, although there are occasional disputes. Because once material for online instruction has been created, it can easily be franchised and monetized by the university, or faculty member with little if any additional investment. For this reason, online course content is more economically valuable than traditional classroom material.
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Where there's money, there will be disputes. This becomes particularly the case when faculty members transfer to another institution and want to re-use their instructional materials in another Online program.