For Adrienne Paul and her sister, Abigail Schiavello, who wrote a 28-page book more than a decade ago in elementary school for a project that landed them a national television interview with Rosie O’Donnell and a $10,000 check from the American Cancer Society, the policy — had it been in effect — would have meant they would not have been able to sell the rights to “Our Mom Has Cancer.”
I know that my university does claim certain rights to projects done by it's students for educational purposes, but claiming full rights to work done in one's own time is ridiculous. That would mean that the school would have the rights to every letter written, every drawing drawn. Pretty much everything really. They do not deserve that. The school contributes nothing and only takes away the joy in side projects.
I can picture it now, applying to a college that asks you to submit an original paper of your own, but wait! You don't have the rights to any...looks like you'll have to explain that. This is a complete sham that the school district is even considering this, and speaks volumes of just how out of touch they are.
And...they got this idea after attending a lesson from Apple on content creation. What a farce. If I were a student at that school I would definitely start producing disgusting cartoon porn, and then put it on the internet as having the school's copyright. It would be worth getting expelled over. They tell you you lawfully have to be there, strip you of your rights, treat you like a prisoner, and now they're saying they literally own you (in the sense that to the world you are what you make).