Common use of Scholarly Clause in Contracts

Scholarly. or Aesthetic Work is intellectual property originated by a faculty member resulting from independent academic effort. Such works include, but are not limited to, faculty-prepared textbooks, lecture notes, syllabi, journal articles, review, and other course materials such as outlines, workbooks, presentations, and laboratory manuals, as well as literary, musical and artistic works, and periodicals or other serial publications. For example, consider the case of ▇▇▇▇ the Professor who teaches Calculus in the Math Department. If while employed by the District, he creates lecture notes, outlines and workbooks for his student’s use in his courses taught at the College, his lecture notes, outlines and workbooks shall be considered to be “Scholarly Work.”