Hi all - thanks for your responses. I'm the OP, and I wanted to add a bit for clarification:
Currently, we have no statements in any documents regarding the creation or ownership of IP, be it lesson plans, study books, whatever. This is our first foray into it and instead of just copy-pasting someone else's boilerplate, I thought it would be a great chance to do it correctly from the get go. I know we could just go look up what others are doing, but we don't want to do that.
By "doing work for the school," I mean, mainly, IP created during the normal work as faculty; i.e. curriculum/lesson plans, tests, handouts, study guides, even the rare times when a teacher basically makes their own textbook via years and years of teaching experience. A teacher that creates this kind of work, which most all do de facto, wouldn't have been hired by the school to create the IP, but to teach; the IP just follows as a means to do the teaching. Now we're concerned with what happens when, in this kind of situation, a teacher leaves the school and wants to take their work's products with them. It's true that the school was paying the for teacher to create the IP in a round-about kind of way, but it was also benefiting from the production of it while the teacher was creating and using it.
AmElder, thanks for your very thoughtful comment - we are indeed a school that values community input in most decisions, and this will be no different. I'm just the one taking on the research. As you can probably tell from my comments above, I feel very strongly that both the school and teacher have claims to the IP, and I would like to find out the best way to codify the guidelines that would ensure that.
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Hi all - thanks for your responses. I'm the OP, and I wanted to add a bit for clarification:
Currently, we have no statements in any documents regarding the creation or ownership of IP, be it lesson plans, study books, whatever. This is our first foray into it and instead of just copy-pasting someone else's boilerplate, I thought it would be a great chance to do it correctly from the get go. I know we could just go look up what others are doing, but we don't want to do that.
By "doing work for the school," I mean, mainly, IP created during the normal work as faculty; i.e. curriculum/lesson plans, tests, handouts, study guides, even the rare times when a teacher basically makes their own textbook via years and years of teaching experience. A teacher that creates this kind of work, which most all do de facto, wouldn't have been hired by the school to create the IP, but to teach; the IP just follows as a means to do the teaching. Now we're concerned with what happens when, in this kind of situation, a teacher leaves the school and wants to take their work's products with them. It's true that the school was paying the for teacher to create the IP in a round-about kind of way, but it was also benefiting from the production of it while the teacher was creating and using it.
AmElder, thanks for your very thoughtful comment - we are indeed a school that values community input in most decisions, and this will be no different. I'm just the one taking on the research. As you can probably tell from my comments above, I feel very strongly that both the school and teacher have claims to the IP, and I would like to find out the best way to codify the guidelines that would ensure that.
Thanks again for the comments - keep 'em coming!