Fed Gov't Wants to Track Colleges' Tuition

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<p>Eagle,
Interestingly, a number of top unis tried to join the dot com boom a few years ago, with distance learning, e-learning etc. No one wanted to buy the courseware, so the efforts closed. Makes me think the status quo is here because of customer demand (that’s us and our kids) rather than provider resistance.</p>

<p>To others that asked where license revenue goes:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.hms.harvard.edu/otl/investigators/policies/royalty.html[/url]”>http://www.hms.harvard.edu/otl/investigators/policies/royalty.html&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://otl.stanford.edu/inventors/policies.html#royalty[/url]”>http://otl.stanford.edu/inventors/policies.html#royalty&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://info.gradsch.wisc.edu/research/rescommittee/royaltyshare.html#table2[/url]”>http://info.gradsch.wisc.edu/research/rescommittee/royaltyshare.html#table2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Federal law requires that inventors receive a share of income if the invention was made with federal support, as most are. In practice, universities do not distinguish between federal and nonfederal support for royalty sharing purposes.</p>