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To document the public perception of copyright today, we went around Chicago with a video camera over two days in the summer of 2006, asking strangers what they think about copyright...
The talk lasts about 90 minutes, including the question-and-answer period. The audience members' backgrounds were in library science, computer science, publishing, and law, so the Q&A is as useful as the talk. LibraryThe Promise of a Post-Copyright World A Music Teacher Describes How Copyright Hinders Music Education The Professional Suicide of a Recording Musician Let the Great Cross-Referencing Begin: Google Book Search as Plagiarism Detector The Joyce Hatto Case: How Filesharing Defeats Plagiarism A Classroom Teacher on Copying vs Plagiarism Supporting Open Source While Opposing Copyright Copyright Bibliography See also...Right to Create, a web journal about how copyright and patent law interferes with people's ability to create new works. The Open Knowledge Foundation "Protecting and Promoting Open Knowledge in a Digital Age" AgainstMonopoly.org, Thought Thieve$ ChillingEffects.org, a clearinghouse of Cease and Desist letters sent by information monopolists to people who copy. one small voice: publicdomain, CopyrightReform.us, a good advocacy site (more from the "reform it" than "scrap it and start over" school), with up-to-date news about recent copyright outrages. |
yes...there is a course on it at Binghamton University
I am actually teaching a course on Knowledge and New Media, and of the big issues we discussed in class is Copyright and Fair Use. Part of our discussion was not only centered on how copyright law is being applied to the Internet, and what actually constitute a violation, but we also looked specifically at how academic institutions perceive and understand copyright and fair use given the increase use of new media technologies in colleges and universities across the country. For the class, we were interested in finding out the criteria for determining fair use and copyright infringement in academic institutions. Students got the opportunity to interview key administrators on campus. Essentially, one of the goals of the interview is for students to learn how school administrators tell the difference between fair use and copyright violation? I will be publishing the materials for this course online. By the way, the course syllabus is online on AfricaResource.com at: http://www.africaresource.com/content/view/209/192/
Part of the reason for this discussion and analysis on copyright and fair use was due to the recent controversy about an exhibition I created in response to the official exhibition sponsored by the university. As a result of this exhibition, I was censored, and still being censored. More information about it can be found online.
Hector Acebes Art Exhibition, Academic Freedom and Free Speech
http://www.africaresource.com/content/view/205/202/
Hector Acebes Exhibition and Racism
http://www.africaresource.com/content/view/182/202/
If you are interested, google Hector Acebes to learn more.
And next semester, I am teaching the first ever course on Google and Yahoo.
http://www.africaresource.com/content/view/210/192/
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