Staff in UK further and higher education establishments may be involved in the exploitation of their intellectual property creations with outside bodies. This guide is intended to assist staff in understanding the different approaches and their consequences which they may encounter.
This guidance applies equally whether the member of staff is negotiating on his or her own account (for copyright works which belong to them) or on behalf of the institution (where copyright belongs to the employer). For ease of reference, the term "rights holder" is used in this guidance to refer to the party who owns the rights and wishes to exploit them. This paper can be accessed in pdf format here - Business and Community Engagement - Exploiting Copyright - BCE.