---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 C.F.R. § 1631.11"
title: "45"
number: "1631.11"
heading: "Intellectual property."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/45/1631.11"
---

# §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.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 2996g(e).

### Source

Source: 82 FR 37341, Aug. 10, 2017, unless otherwise noted.