Education, Law & Copyright

An overview of educational copyright law highlighting some of the concerns brought about by new technology. Offers 8 practice tips.

Category:

Education

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• education
• law
• copyright
• lessig
• creative commons

[keenefreelibrary]

"Just ask"is often impossible. "Just take it down"is bowing to censorship, often over debatable (Fabricated) infringement.

Copyright is monopoly, excessive copyright is excessive monopoly. We have no sympathy for monopolistic publishers like Pearson in a world that has OER, the latter of which you really should touch on! But thanks for mentioning the "Educational Guidelines," which almost everyone seems unaware of.

CC is good! Tips 6&7 were too. Did you notice you've dual-licensed this video?

[bathoned]

@keenefreelibrary - Thanks for the comments. Especially the dual-license thing. I'll check that out.

On the "take it down" part, I still think that is a reasonable solution for schools. Unfortunately, schools are not in a position to fight much of this and I would rather them spend their dollars on academics rather than lawyers.

On Pearson and copyright generally ... well, it is not going away, and neither is Pearson. We are all going to be going to or working for Pearson University soon.

[keenefreelibrary]

@bathoned The advice for schools might be practical for schools, but it wouldn't be good for schools to teach it as a general practice. Rather than spend money on lawyers, schools should have a policy that doesn't enable easy censorship. But fair point, of course.

Ignore the error about the dual license, sorry-- there is of course no such thing as a CC BY-ND-SA-NC license. The tiny icons/banner at the bottom of the intro could cause a small amount of confusion for the few who actually notice.