Intellectual Property Policy

3.1. Student ownership of intellectual property

1. The Institute acknowledges that students enrolled in Institute courses own the intellectual property created in their work, unless it is subject to any prior contractual or collaborative arrangements that specify otherwise.
2. Students may not individually own the intellectual property where they have worked with other students to prepare or produce a particular assessment task. In these cases, the intellectual property of collaboratively produced work will be owned jointly by all authoring students.
3. Students on industry-based placements may not individually own the intellectual property of materials created during the placement where the industry host or sponsor requires the assignment of such intellectual property.
4. Where students receive external funding to wholly or partially complete their studies, there may be conditions that relate to students assigning their intellectual property to funding bodies for the funding period.
5. If students are part of a collaborative team with staff, then the Institute is part-owner of the intellectual property created by the team.

3.2. Staff ownership of intellectual property

1. Institute staff must disclose to their line manager all intellectual property created in the course of their employment.
2. If a staff member ceases employment with the Institute, the staff member is not entitled to use or transfer any intellectual property created during their employment, unless the Institute gives the staff member express permission
   to do so.