Jerry Henderson asks about ownership of media materials. Our policy at
Stanford is that much as would be the case in the English or the Art
departments, the student owns his or her own work. There are two
restrictions. The first is that the student's work be related to
progress toward the degree and be non-commercial; the second is that if
the student is hired by the university to do a film or video piece that
is submitted in partial fulfillment of the degree requirement, it
becomes a "work for hire" and the ownership is to be negotiated.
 
In all cases the university reserves the right to use the work for its
own non-commercial purposes. This arrangement seems to work pretty well.
 
-Henry Breitrose
 Dept. of Communication
 Stanford