Once your capstone is completed, it will remain your intellectual property. If you are doing your capstone work at a your employer, then any work completed at the company/organization 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 some other entity can claim intellectual property rights to your work.

For more information, please see the Harvard Library Copyright Advisor program webpage (http://copyright.lib.harvard.edu). Under the "publishing and licensing" section, there is an 8-minute video that explains why scholarly research needs to be public domain.