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

[Gavin Baker]

Relevant:

Fair Use Code for Open Courseware
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/blogs/future_of_public_media/fair_use_code_for_open_courseware_coming_up/

Kevin Driscoll wrote:
> As much as it is valuable to reveal the richness of open materials,
> it is very important to reassure to teachers and professors that they
> are legally permitted to use images returned by Google Image Search in
> their classrooms.
> 
> A related problem, of course, is that when these lectures go into open
> courseware repositories, the fair use becomes trickier. Media studies
> lectures are laregly not included in OpenCourseWare at MIT in part
> because they are chock full of clips, images, and sounds that are
> still within their copyright term.
> 
> That is a shame but the profs can't simply replace a clip from Fox
> News with something else. I believe that the same fair use that
> applies in the classroom applies in the repository.
> 
> Unfortunately, not everyone agrees with me yet.
> 
> If educators feel strongly that they have a right to use copyright
> materials in their classes, they will be more likely to assert that
> right when it comes to freely publishing their learning materials.
> 
> Kevin
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Greg Grossmeier
> <greg.grossmeier at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
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