Once your capstone is completed, it will remain your intellectual property. If you are doing your capstone work at a company/organization, then any work completed needs to be reviewed by their legal department before it becomes your intellectual property. As a matter of course, the Extension School does not sign Confidentiality Disclosure Agreements (CDAs) and typically projects are not given approval if company/organization claims intellectual property rights to your work.

If you are using other people's artwork, voice, image and/or recording please obtain consent and/or release. Typically projects are not given approval if a third-party claims intellectual property rights to your work.

In web development capstone projects, drag-and-drop website builders, etc. are not admissable. It is expected that you write your own source code and create your own designs. Typically projects are not given approval if you do not follow these guidelines. 

For more information, please see the Harvard Library Copyright Advisor program webpage. Under the "publishing and licensing" section, there is an eight-minute video that explains why scholarly research needs to be public domain.