[MCN-L] IP SIG: Fw: Costs of Copyright Confusion - American Univ. TODAY

2007-09-25 Thread Amalyah Keshet 
For those of you lucky enough to be in the DC area - today!

(Yes, this arrived only today.)

Amalyah Keshet




TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2007
The Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media Literacy Education

Join us on the campus of American University in Washington DC where we release 
the report of our research on copyright, fair use and media literacy education. 
 

* * * * * * * * * * *

Confused about copyright? You are not alone.

Media literacy educators rely on the ability to use copyrighted materials in 
their teaching. But ignorance about copyright (and particularly a lack of 
awareness of the fair use provision) is interfering with the ability to teach 
important critical thinking and communication skills to promote digital 
learning.

Please join Professors Renee Hobbs of Temple University, Peter Jaszi of the 
Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University 
Washington College of Law and Pat Aufderheide of the Center for Social Media in 
the School of Communication at American University on Tuesday, September 25, 
for the release of their report, The Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media 
Literacy. The event starts at 2pm, followed by a reception.

Participants include will include high school teachers affected by copyright 
regulations, representatives from the media literacy movement, and leading 
legal scholars in the area of copyright, fair use, and education. Panelists 
will explore such issues as:

  a.. What do teachers know (and do not know) about copyright? 
  b.. How does copyright confusion limit the quality of student learning? 
  c.. What are effective solutions to this problem? 

Who: Pat Aufderheide will moderate the event. A panel of scholars, including 
Hobbs, Jaszi, and Kenneth Crews, a legal scholar at Indiana University School 
of Law-Indianapolis and author of Copyright Law for Librarians and Educators, 
will discuss the findings of the report. Following the panel, the following 
people will discuss the meaning of the report for their organizations and work:

  a.. Dale Allender, Director, National Council of Teachers of English 
(NCTE)-West, the leading professional membership organization for English 
language arts educators. 
  b.. Shay Taylor, media teacher at Montgomery Blair High School, Silver 
Spring, Maryland. 
  c.. Karen Zill, on the board of directors of the Alliance for a Media 
Literate America (AMLA), the national membership organization for media 
literacy 

We look forward to seeing you there and chatting with you at the reception!

Where: American University, Washington College of Law, Room 603
4801 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington DC 
Driving Directions and Parking information available at: 
http://www.wcl.american.edu/direction/driving.cfm

When: Tuesday, September 25, 2:00 p.m. Reception to follow.

The event will be webcast at http://www.wcl.american.edu/go/medialit

Registration is appreciated to assist us estimate attendance for purposes of 
ordering refreshments, but is not required to attend. To register, visit, 
http://www.wcl.american.edu/secle/cle_form.cfm
or
email:  pijip at wcl.american.edu

[MCN-L] Fw: In The News

2007-09-25 Thread Amalyah Keshet 
More good stuff from the Center for Intellectual Property, UMUC.

Amalyah Keshet
Chair, MCN IP SIG   www.mcn.edu
Blog  www.musematic.net

Please consider the environment before printing this email


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 Blog: US copyright official loves DMCA but admits she's not tech savvy.
 AfterDawn.com, September 18, 2007.
 http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11154.cfm

 After reading statements made by U.S. Register of Copyrights Marybeth
 Peters it shouldn't surprise anyone to find out that she's a self
 described luddite who doesn't even have a computer at home. Short of
 being in a coma since the law went into effect in 1998, that's the only
 explanation for saying I think it did what it was supposed to do,
 which is what she recently told an audience at the Future of Music
 Policy Summit.

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 Blog: Values of Fair Use. By Carlos Ovalle, Collectanea Blog, September
 18, 2007.
 http://tinyurl.com/2a7pms

 Georgia earlier reported on the CCIA study describing the economic value
 of fair use. That study and responses to that study have shed light on a
 few areas.

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 Times to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site. By Richard Perez-Pena,
 New York Times, September 18, 2007.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html

 The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web
 site, effective at midnight tonight. In addition to opening the entire
 site to all readers, The Times will also make available its archives
 from 1987 to the present without charge, as well as those from 1851 to
 1922, which are in the public domain. There will be charges for some
 material from the period 1923 to 1986, and some will be free.

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 Blog: Debating the Future of Music. By Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post,
 September 18, 2007.
 http://tinyurl.com/29lu6q

 I spent most of Monday in an auditorium at George Washington University,
 attending the Future of Music Coalition's annual policy summit. This
 gathering is meant to give musicians--as opposed to the recording
 industry at large--a chance to mull over the state of the business.

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 Nintendo Sues Korean Web Sites Over Copyright. The Korea Times,
 September 17, 2007.
 http://tinyurl.com/3xx8mt

 The Korean unit of Japan's game console maker Nintendo Co. said Monday
 that it has taken a legal action against those who allegedly violated
 its copyright for game software through Internet Web sites in South
 Korea. Nintendo Korea said that it filed a suit with the Supreme
 Prosecutors' Office in Seoul against an unidentified number of users who
 it claims uploaded copied Nintendo software on peer-to-peer file-sharing
 or Webhard sites.

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 Blog: This just in... Libraries and library organizations ask Copyright
 Office to free the registration database. By Georgia Harper, Collectanea
 Blog, September 17, 2007.
 http://tinyurl.com/27a452

 Peter Brantley and Carl Malamud have just asked the Copyright Office to
 make its retrospective database of registrations of copyright freely
 available to the public.

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 A call for Net neutrality debate in U.K. By David Meyer, CNET News.com,
 September 17, 2007.
 http://www.news.com/2100-1028_3-6208405.html

 The time has come for the United Kingdom to join the growing debate
 surrounding Net neutrality, the president of the British Computer
 Society told ZDNet UK. Professor Nigel Shadbolt said late last week
 that, because so much of the Internet's content is derived from the
 U.S., the U.K. and Europe would be affected by any Net
 neutrality-related decisions made across the Atlantic.

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 Ad-supported music site SpiralFrog launches Monday, offers free music
 and video downloads. SiliconValley.com/Associated Press, September 17,
 2007.
 http://tinyurl.com/yqwkpm

 SpiralFrog.com, an ad-supported Web site that allows visitors to
 download music and videos free of charge, was scheduled to launch Monday
 in the U.S. and Canada after months of beta testing. The music
 service, which has arranged to pay record companies a cut of its
 advertising revenue, aims to lure music fans who normally flock to
 online file-swapping networks to share and download music for free. The
 recording industry has sued thousands of computer users for doing so in
 recent years.

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 VW 'Nazi' Subpoena Points Up YouTube Privacy Risks. By David Kravets,
 Wired.com, September 17, 2007.
 http://tinyurl.com/2uw9vm

 A legal spat between YouTube and Volkswagen is throwing light on the
 increasing copyright surveillance of social networking sites. Volkswagen
 has filed a subpoena seeking the identity of a YouTube user who posted a
 Nazi-themed parody of a recent VW Golf commercial. Volkswagen's move
 underscores the privacy risks to a blossoming community of users on
 sites like YouTube and Yahoo Video, and social-networking sites like
 Facebook and MySpace.

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 CRIA about-face on iPod levies tied to concerns over