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

[Greg Grossmeier]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Gavin Baker wrote:

> 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?

Encouraging the use of Open Content in a lecture is never a bad idea.  
In fact, encouraging the _creation_ of open content for lectures by 
profs is never a bad idea.

Data point: as a part of having his lecture be published by the 
OPEN:Michigan project a Physics prof has begun creating new CC:BY 
images instead of using the images from textbooks as he did before.  
That benefits us all.

Also, aren't we about promoting Free Culture in universities?  
Encouraging profs to use Open Content seems like some great promotion 
:)


greg