Copyrights/Intellectual Property Sample Clauses
The Copyrights/Intellectual Property clause defines the ownership and rights related to creative works, inventions, or proprietary information produced or used under an agreement. It typically specifies whether intellectual property created during the course of a project belongs to the creator, the client, or is shared, and may outline how such rights can be used, transferred, or protected. This clause is essential for preventing disputes over ownership and usage rights, ensuring that all parties clearly understand their entitlements and obligations regarding intellectual property.
Copyrights/Intellectual Property.
16.1. Contractor agrees that Utilities will have extensive input in the process of rendering Services associated with this Agreement. Therefore, Contractor agrees and acknowledges that all work produced as a result of the Services (e.g. video, artwork, brochures, covers, labels, writings, designs, models, etc.) that have been or will be used by or paid for by Utilities, pursuant to this Agreement is a work made for hire as that term is defined by the United States copyright laws, but within full control of Utilities, and that Utilities is the sole owner of any work product which Contractor has made or will make under this Agreement, including but not limited to all intellectual property rights in said work product under copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret and other applicable law, and that compensation to Contractor for acceptance and acknowledgment of this Agreement is included in any compensation or price whatsoever paid to Contractor. It is the intent of the Parties that Utilities shall have full ownership of the work product produced pursuant to this Agreement upon payment in full by Utilities to Contractor.
16.2. Contractor hereby warrants to Utilities that it will take no action to copyright, patent, trademark, or trade secret any and all of the work product described in this Agreement.
16.3. In the event this Agreement is deemed by a court of competent jurisdiction not to be a work for hire under federal copyright laws, this Agreement provision shall act as an irrevocable disclaimer by Contractor in favor of Utilities and as an irrevocable assignment to Utilities by Contractor of any and all intellectual property rights in Contractor’s work product, including, but not limited to, copyright, patent, trademark and trade secrets, including, but not limited to, all rights in perpetuity. Under this irrevocable assignment, Contractor hereby assigns to Utilities the sole and exclusive right, title, and interest in and to Contractor’s work product, in any and all countries. It is Contractor’s specific intent to assign all right, title, and interest whatsoever in any media and for any purpose, to Utilities, including all rights of renewal and extension. To that end, Contractor agrees to execute and deliver all necessary documents requested by the City of Colorado Springs and/or Utilities in connection therewith and appoints City of Colorado Springs and/or Utilities as Contractor’s agent and attorney-in-fact to act for and in Contractor’s behalf and ...
Copyrights/Intellectual Property. (a) The Authority and the Union agree that original articles, technical papers, information reports and/or instructional notes prepared by the employee within the course of their duties for the Authority, shall be retained by the Authority. The Authority further agrees that the employee may be granted permission to quote selected portions of such materials in a larger work or to publish the material in related journals. Such permission shall not be unreasonably withheld.
(b) The Authority agrees that an employee may prepare articles, technical papers, and/or instructional notes on their own time, and copyright for such material shall be vested in the employee. Confidential information shall not be disclosed without written permission of the Authority.
Copyrights/Intellectual Property. 14.01 In recognition of the Corporation's commitment to scholarship, including teaching, research, and publication activities, the Corporation agrees that members have complete intellectual and artistic freedom in the creation of intellectual property and the unqualified right to disseminate by any means whatsoever the intellectual property which they own. The creator is free to publish or use other means to place the intellectual property in the public domain. The Corporation and the Association agree that members have no obligation to seek patent or other legal protection for the result of their work or to modify research to enhance patentability. No creator is obliged to engage in commercial exploitation.
14.02 The Corporation shall not enter into any agreement with a third party which alters or abridges, or has the effect of altering or abridging, the intellectual property rights of a member.
14.03 The Corporation agrees that it has no interest in and makes no claim to copyrights of any member in print or digital media (books, articles, creative works, and similar material). The Corporation therefore waives, disclaims, and abandons any and all rights in such copyrights.
Copyrights/Intellectual Property. 14.01 In recognition of the Corporation's commitment to scholarship, including teaching, research, and publication activities, the Corporation agrees that members have complete intellectual and artistic freedom in the creation of intellectual property and the unqualified right to disseminate by any means whatsoever the intellectual property which they own. The creator is free to publish or use other means to place the intellectual property in the public domain. The Corporation and the Association agree that members have no obligation to seek patent or other legal protection for the result of their work or to modify research to enhance patentability. No creator is obliged to engage in commercial exploitation.
14.02 The Corporation shall not enter into any agreement with a third party which alters or abridges, or has the effect of altering or abridging, the intellectual property rights of a member.
14.03 The Corporation agrees that it has no interest in and makes no claim to copyrights of any member in print media (books, articles and similar material). The Corporation therefore waives, disclaims, and abandons any and all rights in such copyrights.
14.04 Copyrights in Works of Art The member(s) who is the maker of any work of art such as painting, sculpture, music, films, recorded works of art, and the like, shall retain the copyright therein, and the Corporation, therefore, agrees and undertakes to transfer to the author(s), and hereby transfers to the author(s), all rights in such work of art.