Archive for the 'Copyright' Category
Lawsuit Claim: Students’ Lecture Notes Infringe on Professor’s Copyright
April 10th, 2008Threat Level - “University of Florida professor Michael Moulton thinks copyright law protects the lectures he gives to his students, and he’s headed to court to prove it.” (via)
Judge Dismisses Student Lawsuit Against Plagiarism Detection Service
March 27th, 2008learning.now - “A group of Virginia high school students who sued a plagiarism detection service on the grounds of copyright infringement has had its case dismissed. Ironically, the judge concluded that the company’s storage of student researcher papers constituted fair use.”
Piracy provision aims at universities
March 16th, 2008Los Angeles Times - “A House bill to make college more affordable contains a mandate that campuses develop plans to prevent illegal downloads. Schools say they’re a minor part of the problem and unfairly targeted.” (via)
Students and Copyright: Discipline and Punish?
February 15th, 2008Andy Carvin - “Microsoft has just come out with a new survey on student’s attitudes towards online copyright. The research suggests that very few students have a strong understanding of the issue, but it also makes me wonder just how they’re defining the nature of copyright, and whether it takes into account fair use as [...]
I’ve Always Wondered…
November 19th, 2007Nate Anderson - “How many copyright violations does an average user commit in a single day?”
Find Out Who Steals Your Content
November 5th, 2007Richard Perez-Pena - “The company has developed software that identifies an electronic “fingerprint” for a particular piece of material — an article, a picture, a video. Then it hunts down any place across the Web where a significant chunk of that work has been copied, with or without permission.”
Future of Copyright
October 5th, 2007Julie Hilden - “How Much Can the Government Revise Copyright, Without Running Afoul of the First Amendment and the Copyright Clause?”
Copyright Warnings
August 27th, 2007Maura Corbett - “Did it ever occur to you that, in many cases, these serious, ubiquitous warnings may not actually be accurate? Perhaps they’ve just been around so long that they’ve been accepted as fact, but in many cases, as very recently pointed out by the Computer and Communications Industry Association, they are at best [...]
News Footage and Copyright
August 18th, 2007San Francisco Chronicle - “The filmmakers say they are protected under the “fair use” provision of federal copyright law, a measure that is being tested in ways unimagined when it was codified 30 years ago.” (via)
Be Very Careful
August 16th, 2007InfoWorld - “Analyst firm Knowledge Networks has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a complaint that it distributed news articles to its employees without permission of the copyright owners, a trade group announced Thursday.” (via)
I’ve been doing a lot of educating on this issue for the past few weeks. Most don’t even realize that [...]
Copyright Killers
August 15th, 2007Wonderfactory - “It’s not just movies either. The public library system in this county alone has hundreds of copies of the new Harry Potter book. Each copy is undoubtedly read by dozens of people. That comes out to thousands and thousands of copies of the book that consumers don’t have to buy! Poor, poor Mrs. [...]