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What CAN you do with copyrighted material?
"According to Carl Asti, Director of IT-University Media Services, UD pays licensing fees to ASCAP (The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), BMI (Broadcast Music Inc.) and SESAC (Society of European Stage Authors and Composers) for limited rights to use protected media. "
To Share or Not to Share, That is the Question
"As we have moved deeper into the 21st century, there has been a lockup of creative materials by more and more stringent rules for usage as well as a lengthening amount of of time a work is protected and thus not open for use by others. "
Introducing Copyright
A plain language guide to copyright in the 21st century By Julien Hofman
Guidelines for Copyright and Fair Use in Instruction
Guidelines for Copyright and Fair Use in Instruction at the University of Delaware.
Copyright Confusion wiki
According to the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy...
Teachers can:
1. make copies of newspaper articles, TV shows, and other copyrighted works and use them and keep them for educational use
2. create curriculum materials and scholarship with copyrighted materials embedded
3. share, sell and distribute curriculum materials with copyrighted materials embedded
Copyright And Libel Questions Hit The Twitterverse
Mark Cuban put up a blog post this weekend asking about the copyrightability of Twitter messages. His question revolves around whether or not it's copyright infringement for someone like ESPN to repeat what he wrote in a Twitter message, which he would have preferred they didn't quote.
MCCCD Legal Services Department - Intellectual Property
Nearly every form of tangible expression (books, drawings, software, etc.) is subject to some sort of copyright protection. This site offers legal and District-wide guidelines on copyright protection, including direction on when (under the Fair Use Doctrine) copyrighted materials may be duplicated.
Fair Use Network
The Fair Use Network was created because of the many questions that artists, writers, and others have about "IP" issues. Whether you are trying to understand your own copyright or trademark rights, or are a "user" of materials created by others, the information here will help you understand the system — and especially its free-expression safeguards.
The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
This document is a code of best practices that helps educators using media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances—especially when the cultural or social benefits of the use are predominant. It is a general right that applies even in situations where the law provides no specific authorization for the use in question—as it does for certain narrowly defined classroom activities.
Political Remixers and Fair Use Best Practices
Political remixers badly need the Code of Best Practices, because they want their work to circulate widely as a form of criticism with some impact in the world.
YouTube: The Big Copyright Lie
How do we reconcile YouTube's official hard-line position on copyright with the reality that 90% of the content on their site is clearly copyrighted and clearly used without permission?
Wired Campus: Officials Discuss the Importance of Privacy in Online Class Discussions - Chronicle.com
Holding class discussions online raises privacy issues that colleges are still struggling to work through, said David Escalante, director of computer policy and security at Boston College
Turnitin wins important victory in fight to combat plagiarism (and the bloat of copyright)
I always thought that it was important (and so advised) to give the students a choice up front, when they signed up for the class, so that they understood that use of Turnitin was a term of the offering of the class.
Permission to Use Graphics or Create Links
A resource which explains fair use and gives access to template letters to get the permission to use someone else's work.
Is it possible to design non-defective DRM? - Creative Commons
This is not an outright prohibition of DRM on works distributed under terms of any CC license, but it does rule out existing DRM schemes that would clearly restrict the ability to exercise the rights granted in any CC license.
Universities of the future: R.I.P learning objects and the rise of 2.0 shared attribution
Learning objects and traditional repositories as they have been understood so far are dead.
On closed content as copyright violation obfuscation - D'Arcy Norman dot net
It struck me how much effort and energy was being expended to protect disclosure of these violations, and how relatively easy it would have been to just avoid potential copyright violations in the first place by using Creative Commons and/or Public Domain
Wired Campus: Educause Lobbies Against Piracy Measure in House Bill - Chronicle.com
The controversial provision would require colleges to offer subscription-based music services or other “alternatives” to the “illegal downloading of music.” It would also require colleges to “explore technology-based deterrents to prevent such i
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