To: The Utah State House, The Utah State Senate, and Governor Gary R. Herbert
Give Students the Copyright they Deserve
Utah Valley University makes claim to all works done as class work, even if the student used his own resources and assets to create that project. This leaves the University with 100% of the copyright and the student with nothing.
Why is this important?
Utah Valley University, and likely others, are claiming that they own 100% copyright to students work regardless if the student used any of the Universities resources or assets. If you submit it for a grade, you are surrendering your copyright. This is wrong, students work hard on their projects and it should be up to them to commercialize it (so long as they don't use University resources). They shouldn't have to go through the University to license their own product and be forced to give 10% (or more) just because they are a student there.