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

[Greg Grossmeier]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Adi Kamdar wrote:

> UT has this:
> http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/Intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm
> 
> I only skimmed, but it seems like a similar idea.
> -Adi
> 

Kinda of, except the landing page is ugly and it doesn't really do 
what the Case Book is supposed to accomplish :)

Case Book will give you a way to:
A) Specify what kind of object you are dealing with
B) determine any special qualities of that object (are their 
trademarks involved? how about public figures? etc)
C) give you a recommendation (with legal background) if you can use it 
in a Fair Use context or even if the object _is_ copyrighted.*

But yeah, I've looked at that page before and found it to have a ton 
of copyright information; good stuff.

Sorry for giving you all a link to an obviously draft quality wiki 
page, just thought it was a cool idea.

Best,

greg


* of course it will have to give caveats that deal with term of 
copyright, but the primary concern is things like data (not 
copyrightable), photographs/scans/representations of public domain 
works (no new copyright), etc.