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[nomad-ish]

someone mentioned this on another thread and i was curious about this. i was told at my orientation for PS last year that if i create lessons, materials, etc. during my time there, they belong to the school board (or school, something like that). but if my next school requests everything i've done, and i don't give it to them because i used my lessons made from last year (not on their time), would that work?

reason i ask is my last school copied everything, and i do mean EVERYTHING, things i used and things i didn't use, in my teaching folder that i didn't want them to.

would i have a leg to stand on here?

[TheChickenLover]

Yes & NO. You can hardly claim intellectual property to lessons as simple as "Do you like chicken?". That would be absurd. Then again, Michael Jackson owns the rights to the song "Happy Birthday" & wants too much money for its use in film so it's not used often.

Paper is meaningless without presentation. I would provide just a lesson plan for your classes. Let them copy all the handouts, but conveniently say you lost your powerpoint presentation files on your harddisk.

On a side note, Asian cultures do not have the same understanding of intellectual propery as we do in the West. Here, ideas once said are to be shared by all, not hoarded on exclusive usage.

If you can't, then copy lesson plans off the net & use those.

Chicken

[Scott in Incheon]

[TheChickenLover]

I stand corrected. Thanks for sourcing.



Chicken