When have undergraduates ever had more privileges than faculty?

From Tusher Rae at the Chronicle of Higher Education:

An iPhone app designed by a team of students for a contest at the University of Missouri at Columbia has helped lead the institution to rewrite its intellectual-property policies.

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Mr. Brown and his team, made up of fellow students Zhenhua Ma, Dan Wang, and Peng Zhuang, decided to stay in, despite their concerns. When they won the competition with an app called NearBuy, the students decided to contact the university to assert their ownership and to ask the university to waive any intent to assert ownership.

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Michael F. Nichols, vice president for research and economic development for the Missouri system, led the initiative to rewrite the rules, and he found that his peers at other institutions had little advice on how to deal with student work.

Via AUTM Newsbrief.