Our PI wants to apply to the Ingenuity Systems Grant Program (http://www.ingenuity.com/blog/ingenuity-variant-analysis/announcing-the-ingenuity-systems-fall-2013-grant-program). “Winners” are given a $10,000 license to one of 2 different Ingenuity software.  The terms and conditions include the following:

“By accepting a Grant, you agree to allow Ingenuity and/or Ingenuity’s designee the perpetual right to use your name, biographical information, photos and/or likeness, and statements for promotion, trade, commercial, advertising and publicity purposes, at any time or times, in all media known or hereafter discovered including live television, world wide, including but not limited to on the World Wide Web and Internet, without notice, review or approval and without additional compensation except where prohibited by law.”

And

“By entering the Contest and submitting a Proposal, you: (i) grant to the Ingenuity, in perpetuity, a non-exclusive license to publish, display, reproduce, modify, edit or otherwise use your Proposal, in whole or in part, for advertising or promoting the Contest or the Ingenuity products; (ii) waive all moral rights in and to your Proposal in favor of the Ingenuity to the fullest extent permitted by law; and (iii) agree to release and hold harmless the Releasees (defined below) from and against any and all claims based on publicity rights, defamation, invasion of privacy, copyright infringement, trade-mark infringement or any other intellectual property related cause of action that relate in any way to the Proposal.”

Both of these terms are against University policy, and we’ve been told they are non-negotiable. Several schools have have received this grant, and I’m wondering how you dealt with these terms. If anyone with experience with this grant program  could let me know your thoughts, I’d be grateful!

Thanks,

Jennifer

Jennifer Barron, MBA

Director, Office of Research Administration

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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