"The Office of General Counsel provides quality legal advice, guidance, and service in support of West Virginia University’s mission.
The Office of General Counsel provides advice and counsel to University administrators, faculty, and staff members only when they are acting within the scope of their employment with the University. The Office of General Counsel does not provide legal advice or representation to administrators, faculty, and staff members of the University community on matters of a personal nature or on matters adverse to the interests of the University. Accordingly, there are no separate attorney-client relationships established with individual administrators, faculty, and staff members. "
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BOG Governance Rule 1.5 Intellectual Property Rule for Patent, Copyright, and Trademark Rights
Responsible Unit: Research Office; University Relations
In general Employees (Faculty including emeritus, staff, post-docs) or Students (undergraduate, graduate) shall retain copyright in scholarly, pedagogical, or artistic works, including, without limitation, textbooks, papers, journal articles, dissertations, novels, poems, musical compositions, works of popular nonfiction, dramatic works and other works of artistic expression, but not including computer software, to the extent such works are not Institutional Works.
