Protecting students’ IP rights
p2pnet.net news:- Some Canadian students who believe their professors have hi-jacked their work will soon be able to do something about it, hopes the Ottawa’s Carleton Graduate Students’ Association.
It wants the university’s 3,300 grad students to know how to protect their intellectual property, ” while ensuring they’re being properly recognized for their work,” says Macleans, going on:
The initiative will include workshops and a handbook outlining what would constitute an infraction of students’ intellectual property rights, said association president Oren Howlett.
Examples include a student not receiving authorship on written work, or having a professor take credit for their work.
Howlett said the initiative was prompted in part by recent high-profile cases at universities involving copyright infringement.
In one case, Chris Radziminski, a former University of Toronto graduate student, alleged his former supervisors at U of T and Indiana University plagiarized his drinking water research in two journal articles and manipulated research results. Radziminski was threatened with a defamation suit by the University of Toronto when he attempted to contact the journals to correct the record.
An inquiry launched by Indiana University in the spring of 2006 confirmed Radziminski’s allegations of misconduct. Formal apology letters were written to him and other students cited as authors on the articles.
Knowledge as property was once, “an alien concept to universities, where the emphasis was on creating and sharing knowledge for its own sake,” the Canadian Press has said the Canadian Association of University Teachers’ Paul Jones saying, continuing
“What typically happens is that a team will come together to work on a project, perhaps with the best intentions, and with some naivete about this commercialized model. “As things move forward, it may dawn on someone, ‘Hey, there’s some money to be made here.’.”
Jones said his association is working on developing a best practices guide with the Canadian Federation of Students to alert individuals to the issue of intellectual property theft, and to suggest ways it can be avoided, adds CP.
Also See:
Macleans – Grad students worry about intellectual property theft, April 9, 2007
Canadian Press – Students protecting intellectual work, April 8, 2007
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April 10th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
http://ca.geocities.com/uoftfraud/
don’t know whether this is true, though