Claudia, it seems to me that if most of the slides were derived from your colleague's work, that fellow has an ethical obligation to indicate the source of the material, especially given that they are now publicly available for all to see. I typically start the first PP slide of every set with a disclaimer that the material presented in the slides includes images and text that have been derived from various sources (e.g., textbook publisher, colleagues). I have now begun to do that for every chapter set. One of the reasons I do not distribute my slides or put them on the web is because potential copyright issues. Miguel
-----Original Message----- From: Claudia Stanny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 2:01 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Intellectual Property A colleague of mine was revising his Power Point slides for a class he teaches. He was curious about whether the spelling of an unusual term he used in his slides was correct and decided to Google the term. The Google search brought up a link to his Power Point slides posted on the web site of a doctoral candidate at another university. The slides had been minimally altered (his name was removed, some minor graphics were removed and others were added). The verbal content was not altered and all of the slides were reproduced without attribution. The slides were presented as this person's slides for a course that he was teaching. I'm curious about your thoughts as to how my colleague should respond to this use of his material. He has written to the individual and pointed out that a request for permission to use the material might have been in order. I think this raises some issues about protecting our course materials as intellectual property. We are in danger of this sort of pilfering if we post materials to our personal web sites. If we load these into secure sites such as WebCT, Blackboard, or D2L, our universities think of them as theirs. What is an academician to do? Claudia J. Stanny, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Psychology Interim Director, Center for University Teaching, Learning, and Assessment University of West Florida Pensacola, FL 32514 - 5751 Phone: (850) 857-6355 or 473-7435 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=engl ish
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