Regulations last checked for updates: May 19, 2024

Title 45 - Public Welfare last revised: May 13, 2024
§ 1631.11 - Intellectual property.

(a) A recipient owns all products, technologies, and software developed or improved using LSC funds, subject to any agreement the recipient may have with a third-party vendor. LSC retains a royalty-free, nonexclusive, and irrevocable license to use, reproduce, distribute, publish, and prepare derivative works of any LSC-funded products, technologies, and software, including making them available to other LSC grantees or the broader access to justice community and partners.

(b) A recipient must have a written contract with vendors who develop or improve LSC-funded products, technologies, and software. The contract must include a provision disclosing LSC's royalty-free, nonexclusive, and irrevocable license and prohibiting third-party vendors from denying its existence, challenging its legality, or interfering with LSC's full exercise of it.

authority: 42 U.S.C. 2996g(e)
source: 82 FR 37341, Aug. 10, 2017, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 45 CFR 1631.11