[FC-discuss] creating a copyright How-To for professors whose slideshow presentations have unlicensed images

[Greg Grossmeier]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, D Parker Phinney wrote:

> http://www.ocwconsortium.org/share/toolkit.html has a BUNCH of really 
> helpful stuff.  they even have powerpoint presentations prepared for 
> making the case to different levels of administration.
> 
> But one thing I haven't found yet is a concise document explaining fair 
> use and creative commons to professors who use google image search to 
> get images for their powerpoints.  Beyond clearing lectures to be 
> published online as part of OCW, freeing professors' lectures of 
> copyright-infringing material (and squeezing in some free culture ideals 
> as well) seems to be a good idea in general.
> 

On a similar topic:

Some cool stuff is going to be coming out of the University of 
Michigan OER project (OPEN:Michigan).

It is going to be a case book of different Content Objects and how to 
do a Copyright Analysis of them (OPEN:Michigan terms Upper Cased).  
Basically, if you see something like this, do that.

The draft (DRAFT!) can be found here:
https://open.umich.edu/wiki/index.php5/Casebook

The cool thing is going to be Susan Crawford's[0] IP class adding 
to/rewriting that Case Book to include more examples and legal cases 
to back up the decisions.

Thought some of you might be interested.

Best,

greg


[0] Yes, _that_ Susan Crawford.  The person who Obama appointed to be 
co-lead of the FCC Review Team.