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Policy/Objective	Relevance to Collaboration and/or OER
Intellectual Property Issues
Development of a structured system that forestalls practices of plagiarism, create a clear legal framework to infringement of copyrights and other forms of cheating among staff and students. [Quality Assurance and Control Policy, p. 22] Copyright: Students are not allowed to copy and paste text, images or graphics from websites that are protected by copyright, without ‘proper acknowledgment’ or permission of the owner of the intellectual property [ICT Guidelines for Students]. Students should comply with legal and University restrictions regarding plagiarism and the citation of information resources [ICT Guidelines for Students].	Completing a systematic audit of materials and their licences will guide staff and students. Maintaining proper licences that facilitate use and adaptation of materials further supports this.

6. Identify issues for consideration

For example:

Some key issues for consideration emerge from the above review. These are as follows:

1. A policy is clearly required to govern materials development. It will be useful to ensure that it takes account of the above analysis to create a policy environment supportive of collaboration and sharing and to ensure rigour in the management of the university’s intellectual property. Some additional observations are worth noting to feed into development of that policy:

a. The Human Resource Management policy must include references to copyright or intellectual property

b. Workshop feedback suggests that materials development does not explicitly count when considering job re-categorization and promotion, performance-based incentives, and letters of recommendation and this may need attention. It would be useful if performance appraisal could include contributions of OERs.

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