Good morning legal advisees of reddit.
I’d like to know anything about this situation, be it existing legislation or lack thereof, actions to take, etc.
The university I work for recorded my likeness in an online class (I’m a TA) and is selling the recordings as a summer course without explicit permission or compensation. There was nothing about even the class being recorded on the job contract or TA agreement I signed.
Google says: “the (my uni) system’s rule 90101 states that all individuals subject to the rule . . . must assign their intellectual property rights to the university . . . (The uni) owns the copyright for materials created during employment.”
… is my face a material I create during employment? Is it intellectual property? Perhaps the recording of it is. I didn’t create that though, they did … guess I should’ve gotten permission to be recorded? Did they need to ask?
I’m hesitant on asking the wrong people in my department due to various power dynamics including the professor. They’re replacing our jobs with these recordings, so ….
Thanks in advance for any assistance in parsing this situation.
Location: Texas USA