UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI				CONTRACT
Department of Computer Science					(translation, not official contract)
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CONTRACT ON THE IMMATERIAL RIGHTS TO THE PRODUCTS OF THE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROJECT TEAM

1. Aim of the contract

This is the contract for signing over the immaterial rights of the software engineering project ____________________________________.

The project is an undergraduate project carried out during the Software engineering project course at the Department of Computer Science during the _______________term of year ______________.

The aim of the contract is to transfer the immaterial rights for any products by the software engineering project team to the University of Helsinki, which in turn guarantees that the product will be freely available to the participants in the project.

2. Parties to the contract

The parties of this contract are

1) The University of Helsinki, here represented by the Department of Computer Science and the person authorized by the chair of the department,
______________________________________________________ and

2) ____________________________________________________________,

whose role in the project is that of student/instructor/customer and who will be termed transferor of rights in this contract.

3. Specifications

The software engineering project team consists of one group of undergraduates who are working together to complete the course “Software engineering project” 581260 in the degree requirements of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki, the instructor/s of said group, as well as its client/s.

The product of the software engineering project team refers to any material produced in the software engineering project, including possible computer programs both in source code and executable form, software documents, other reports and further material that can arguably be seen as a product of the software engineering project.

4. Rights and duties

The transferor of rights will transfer his or her immaterial rights to all products resulting from the software engineering project, including copyright, patent, utility model and model rights, to the University of Helsinki. The rights will be transferred only to the extent and within the limits that are stipulated in the legislation.

Select one of the following alternatives by ticking the box:

The University of Helsinki will give the clients and software engineering project team the following rights:

•	The student members of the software engineering project team maintain the right to be cited as the original authors of the products of the software engineering project team and to use the products as their thesis work and research.
•	The software engineering project clients and the enterprise or association that they represent have the right to utilise the product. They may install the product for their own use. The product may not be distributed to a third party. They may not demand higher payment for the use of the product than what is reasonable in order to cover maintenance expenses for the product. The University of Helsinki will not demand payment for economic or immaterial advantage gained with the product.
•	The instructor of the software engineering project may use the product for theses and research.

The University of Helsinki will grant free access according to the principles of open software development in the form of the GNU General Public License v2 / GNU Lesser General Public License (underline selected option).

5. Remuneration

There is no remuneration for the transferral of rights. The University of Helsinki does not demand compensation for user access.

6. Coming into force

This contract becomes effective when both parties have signed it, however, the duties of the University of Helsinki do not come into effect for the products of the software engineering project team until all the holders of the rights to the product have signed a corresponding contract.

There are two copies of this contract, one for the University of Helsinki and one for the transferor of the rights.

Helsinki on _____(date) ______ (month) _______ (year)

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University of Helsinki 				Transferor of rights
Department of Computer Science