At the 2008 Learning Design Summer Camp, Dr. Matt Jackson from the College of Communications talked with us about many topics related to the creation and use of digital media in higher education: Copyright, Fair Use, TEACH Act, mashups, and so forth. The discussion is at the heart of this copyright site and I think that Matt did a very nice job of explaining the complexity of intellectual property issues. After the bulk of his presentation, the audience had many questions about issues such as news reporting, making parodies, YouTube, citations, artwork from museums, musical performances, etc...
September 2008 Archives
I was reading through The Daily Collegian today and thought this story was interesting. It helps illustrate that these copyright issues and the activity of organizations like the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) are not abstract. In addition to talking about how this issue affects local students and what Information Technology Services is doing to monitor student bandwidth use, this article also mentions Dr. Matt Jackson, from the College of Communications. Dr. Jackson helped us think through this copyright site.
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