Controversy In The Classroom: Whose IP Is It Anyway?
Here is an article from Gamasutra that can ultimately effect all past, current, and potential game development students. I went through DeVry’s Game & Simulation Programming cirriculum, so I have a vested interest in the outcome of this controversy. Basically, the article states that certain game development schools are saying that any and all student created assets belong to them, and not the students. The schools won’t ever publish them commercially, but neither can the students. Last year, DeVry sent me a letter asking if I could release my student created assets so that they could showcase them at GDC. I never signed the letter. If DeVry is sending out letters to ask for permission to show our work at public events, that should mean that they feel they don’t own the rights. If that’s the case, I applaud DeVry. As for other, more-well-known, game development schools, I present this Gamasutra article in it’s entirety:
