No Legal Agreement governing IP rights is required for this challenge for the following reasons:
- Since works created by Chemonics on behalf of the Government are considered commissioned works, Chemonics asserts the copyrights on the work its produces when implementing projects under contracts and cooperative agreements with USAID, with the understanding that USAID and others acting on behalf of the Government, are granted a paid-up, nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license in such copyrighted data to reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute copies to the public, and perform publicly and display publicly by or on behalf of the Government. Depending on the rights in data provisions of the specific contract or cooperative agreement, Chemonics may be required to seek USAID’s written permission to release, reproduce, distribute, or publish such data. When such permission is granted, Chemonics will affix the applicable copyright notices of 17 U.S.C. 401 or 402, and an acknowledgment of Government sponsorship (including contract number).
- This is an internal contest and Chemonics employees are submitting entries on behalf of Chemonics-implemented projects.
- Under the guidelines of this contest, the “models” produced by the project and submitted as entries are not works fixed in a tangible medium of expression, and as such, they cannot be considered copyrightable.
