i'm even less of a lawyer than the other people who have voiced their
opinions on the subject, but i think that by default, the author of a
question holds whatever "rights" may be associated with it. (in
practice this basically never matters.) however some tournaments--i
know penn bowl used to do this, and maybe still does--stipulate in
the tournament announcement or packet requirements page or whatever
that submitted packets become the intellectual property of the host
school/team. this also seems eminently reasonable (and again it never
matters), and is furthermore closer to the de facto truth of the
matter, which is that if you run a tournament you can sell or
exchange the questions from it if you want, but you can't really sell
or exchange questions you wrote for somebody else's invitational. or
at least nobody tries to.
uh, i might as well claim now that stanford will have all "rights" to
packet submissions for cardinal classic. again, not that it matters.
joon