4.4 Intellectual property
A revised intellectual property clause is included in the terms and conditions of the 2006-09 service agreement. Under the revised clause, the ownership of intellectual property vests in the funded organisation, which in turn grants licence to the department to use the intellectual property.
The intellectual property clause requires that the funded organisation agrees to properly manage the Project Intellectual Property? as specified in this kit.
“Properly manage” means to:
- register, maintain the registration of, protect, manage, exploit and (as appropriate) commercialise it for the benefit of the Victorian public
- to maintain, improve, enhance and develop it to the fullest extent reasonably necessary to maintain its usefulness and appropriateness to the organisation and the department for the provision of the services
- use, reproduce, publish, adapt, disseminate, communicate to the public, broadcast, and perform it for the benefit of the Victorian public
- comply with all applicable departmental or other Victorian government policies in respect of it.