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Question - Student/Professor Collaboration (Paid Project)
A group of faculty members have worked together to develop
an online primer on copyright issues for use by university
faculty, staff and students. They have worked together to
research and draft the primer material and university legal
counsel has reviewed and approved their work. In order to
make the primer more appealing, the group hires a student
in the graphic arts program to create some animated images
for the primer. The student is paid a flat fee for the artwork,
all of which is incorporated into the primer. Later, the student
decides he would like to include two of the images he created
on his own personal website. When he mentions this to a member
of the faculty group, the faculty member tells the student
that he cannot use the images without first obtaining the
permission of the university. Is the faculty member right?
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