IANAL but I'm think that the university should be considered as working for me. I mean I pay the fools $20k a year to attend - a.k.a. I hire them to give me and education with the end goal of reciving a degree. So anything done as coursework should remain in my control.
Now where it gets intersting is if someone produces a work while at work on a university job and is also a current student. Mostly likely this would be considered university property (as a work for hire); but one could at least attempt to make the argument the that the university is your employee as so you reatin all rights. I would say this becaue most university student jobs are do not pay well compaired to other jobs; and the reason they can get away ith this is because most students are learning on the job. - a.k.a. the university is preforming the job for which you hired them.
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IANAL but I'm think that the university should be considered as working for me. I mean I pay the fools $20k a year to attend - a.k.a. I hire them to give me and education with the end goal of reciving a degree. So anything done as coursework should remain in my control. Now where it gets intersting is if someone produces a work while at work on a university job and is also a current student. Mostly likely this would be considered university property (as a work for hire); but one could at least attempt to make the argument the that the university is your employee as so you reatin all rights. I would say this becaue most university student jobs are do not pay well compaired to other jobs; and the reason they can get away ith this is because most students are learning on the job. - a.k.a. the university is preforming the job for which you hired them.