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responsibility of every Company employee to help protect Company intellectual property. It is the
responsibility of Company managers and supervisors to foster and maintain awareness of the
importance of protecting the Company's intellectual property.

7.4.2 Ownership of teaching materials, aids, and performers’ rights
Where teaching and learning materials have been made formally available to students through
lectures and an on-line platform or other means, each staff member grants to the Company an
irrevocable worldwide royalty free right in perpetuity to use such materials in delivering its
programmes of study.

DIFC shall, where practicable, endeavour to acknowledge the original creator of any teaching materials
except in the case of multiple revisions of course material it shall not be obliged to give credit.
Such acknowledgment and credit will not be attributed in those cases where the materials were
created as a result of a contract of employment or specified duties relating to the development of on-
line courses.

DIFC retains the ownership of, and copyright in, the overall description of the elements or modules of
any academic courses delivered by a staff member during their time of employment.

An academic staff member who leaves the employment of DIFC will retain ownership of copyright in
their scholarly, creative and cultural works, subject to the retention by the Company of a perpetual
royalty free worldwide non-exclusive right to use for teaching and research purposes.

DIFC agrees and acknowledges that all Performers’ Rights in any teaching materials such as video or
other recording of lectures, demonstrations or public talks or similar works that are performances in
intellectual property terms are owned by the staff member, except where the staff member was
directly employed to create and develop such material under a contract of employment or arising
from an externally funded grant or contract between DIFC and a third party.

Each staff member grants to DIFC, and to its subsidiaries, an irrevocable royalty free non -exclusive
worldwide licence in perpetuity to use and sub-license such material for teaching, research and
commercial purposes, including the right to sub-license any subsidiary companies of DIFC and third
parties.
7.4.3 Intellectual Property of Others
The Company also is committed to respecting the intellectual property of others. The rules with
respect to intellectual property, including misappropriation of business information and trade secrets
(e.g., computer systems, software, and related knowhow) and infringement of patents, trademarks
and service marks, trade dress, and copyrights, are complex, so you should seek expert advice from
the Company's legal advisors to address specific issues that arise with respect to our business. In many
instances the Company's legal advisors can perform searches for pre-existing patents, trademarks or
service marks, or copyrights and help you avoid infringing conduct. Company legal advisors also can
evaluate business information to help you avoid infringing conduct.

While collecting data on the Company's competitors, you are to use legal, ethical resources to prevent
the tainting of Company operations with the improper introduction of the proprietary information of
third parties. Substantial civil and criminal penalties may be levied against you and the Company for
misappropriation of trade secrets that are avoidable through compliance with the Company's policies
and consultation with the Company's legal advisors.

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