Copyright

During your tenure as a CUNY student, you will have opportunities to have your work published, posted or broadcast, thereby obtaining the all-important clips you will use in order to apply for internships and jobs. You may wonder whether you have the right under the U.S. copyright law to grant permission or sell work that you have created for class or school projects. Students generally own the copyright to the work they produce while attending CUNY. TheCraig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism maintains a non-exclusive license to use the material for non- commercial, educational purposes. (As an example, the school might use your work on a password-protected website as an example to other students of what a capstone project should look like.) If the work is developed in an entrepreneurial course or in the entrepreneurial certificate program, the school will obtain a separate licensing agreement with the student.