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

Gavin Baker gavin at gavinbaker.com
Sat Jan 24 12:43:35 EST 2009


D Parker Phinney wrote:
> [...]  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.

Um -- they're using images for educational use, in a classroom,
sometimes transformatively or critically. If that's not fair use, I
don't know what is. Why is this a bad thing?

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