Requesting a Consultation with Digital Ventures

If you would like asssistance distributing or publishing software, copyrighted works, databases, digital media or other information products developed at the University of Washington (UW), please fill out the consultation request form and send it to Digital Ventures. You are welcome to copy and paste from other documents, or provide URLs where useful.

Please consider contacting Digital Ventures early in your research project so that Digital Ventures can help you plan for distribution of research tools and other results, and help avoid intellectual property management problems that can prevent publication and distribution of project work.

Contact Digital Ventures if the research or project:

• Plans to distribute or publish materials. You will need to start planning early if you wish to distribute materials created by your research or project to audiences outside the university. Early management of intellectual property can prevent third party sponsors from delaying or preventing your publication or distribution of works, and results in significant time savings. Obtaining copyright permissions and rights after the creation of research work can take up to a year, or it may not be possible to acquire them at all.
  
  
• Receives funding from outside the UW. You may be obligated to notify your sponsors of materials such as code, reports, or images that your research group creates. Many federal grant programs require you to make research tools and other research artifacts available to granting agencies and external parties.
  
  
• Incorporates pre-existing materials. You may need permission to use materials or software created by other people or materials you created for a different university or project.
  
  
• Involves people from outside the UW. You may need to collect special agreements from participants outside the UW community.
  
  
• Handles, uses, or creates confidential information. Members of your research group need to know and agree to observe the rules that apply to sensitive personal, regulatory, security, proprietary or other confidential information within your research.
  
  
• Anticipates use of project materials in other projects or classes. Early management of project materials allows you to work with other research projects or courses without administrative delays.

Fill out the consultation request.