Text 3.3 Intellectual Property Rights (i.e. Take Credit For Your Work!)

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Copyright is both Your Protection, and Protection for Other Authors

From Author's Rights & Publishing Agreements:

The text and images that are created at TXST and linked to it are protected by copyrightLinks to an external site.. Lectures and examination questions are also protected by copyright law.

An individual has rights to the intellectual or creative works they produce. As an author, you own the rights to your work from the moment that work takes on some fixed form, until or unless the rights are transferred to another entity.

Traditional publishing contracts often assign copyright to the publisher, thus limiting how and where the work can be used and distributed in the future. If this happens, authors may be restricted from incorporating this work into their teaching and research, or posting it to a website or in an institutional repository or digital collection. View the Author's Rights to understand what your rights are.

Your Rights

brown wooden stand with black background It is important to know what is acceptable for faculty members to expect from you, and what expectations you should have of getting credit or acknowledgment for your work with faculty doing research.

If you made significant intellectual contributions to a paper or to the research described in it, your name should be included when publishing the paper. If your name is not included, talk to the advisor so you understand why credit was not given to you. If you still disagree, there are policies in place to help you address this issue.

Quick Check

At TXST, the leading faculty member on a research project is the only name that is put on a published paper, regardless of how much the other researchers contributed to the work.

True, only the lead researcher is put on a paper due to character and publishing constraints.

Reread the "Your Rights" section again.

False, all researchers who made a substantial contribution to the research should have their name on the paper.

Yes! The "Your Rights" section specifically states any person that makes a significant intellectual contribution to a paper or the research described in the paper should have their name included.

Check Answer

References

CUR. What students expect. Council on Undergraduate Research. https://www.cur.org/projects_and_services/usrp/students_expect/

TXST. (2021). Author's rights & publishing agreements. University Libraries: Research Guides. https://guides.library.txstate.edu/authorsrights

TXST. (2021). Intellectual property: Inventions, discoveries, and patents (IDP). Policy and Procedure Statements. https://policies.txstate.edu/university-policies/01-04-26.html

TXST. Undergraduate Research. https://www.txstate.edu/undergraduateresearch/