One of the bad things about having a little time on my hands is that I come back to TIPS and somebody posts something that gets me to thinking again. Then I wind up thinking and posting until I wind up out of time again.
Orphan Works reminds me of an issue that is going to begin to be more common over the next few years. It has come up on TIPS before, and might be worth some more consideration. Many of us started our academic careers in the late 60s and early 70s. That was a time of tremendous growth in enrollments, in part because of the vets using their VA benefits. Schools had to add a lot of faculty to handle the enrollments. Now, a large number of us have begun to retire, or are going to be retiring in the not too distant future. What is going to happen to the work we have created when we retire? If your Web pages are sitting on your school's server, what do you plan on doing when you leave the school? If you have your own site, are you going to maintain it after you retire? There is also the inevitable. Ever if you have your own site, will your spouse or significant other maintain it when you die? Or, will all your hard work disappear into etherspace? Is it time to start thinking about an "Orphaned Works Repository in Psychology" for the Web pages we have developed? Or, should we just let the whipper-snappers tough it out from scratch like we had to do? Rick Stevens wrote: > It's a moot point since I /would/ ask permission to use someone's > slides. I just wouldn't go to the effort to confront someone using mine. > I don't feel conflicted about calling students on plagiarism when they > copy&paste from websites to create a paper. If I did borrow slide shows > without permission or attribution I would feel conflicted. > > I also think that, rather than use that legal knowledge obtained from > many seasons of Law and Order to play TV lawyer on the net, I would like > to see some official loosening of the copyright standards. One such > effort can be seen here http://eldred.cc/ at the Save Orphan Works site. > This is from that site: > > > *What are orphan works?* > > Orphan works are broadly speaking any copyrighted works where the > > rights holder is hard to find. Because the cost of finding the owner > > is so high, creators can't build on orphan works, even when they'd be > > willing to pay to use them. In many cases the works were abandoned > > because they no longer produced any income. In most cases, rights > > holders, once found, are delighted to have their work used. > > Rick Froman wrote: > > > Of course as the copyright holder you have the right to freely > > distribute all of your material. However, if you were the one > > borrowing the slides as described on this thread, what would you say > > to your students who, in studying for a test using Google, came across > > the original slides with correct attribution and they wanted to know > > how what you have done is any different from what you taught them is > > plagiarism? I hope no one is mirroring anyones interactive plagiarism > > exercise without proper attribution. > > > > Rick > > > > Dr. Rick Froman > > Professor of Psychology > > John Brown University > > 2000 W. University > > Siloam Springs, AR 72761 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > (479) 524-7295 > > http://www.jbu.edu/academics/sbs/faculty/rfroman.asp > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > *From:* Rick Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > *Sent:* Monday, May 15, 2006 2:20 PM > > *To:* Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > > *Subject:* [tips] Re: Intellectual Property > > > > Personally, if anyone wanted to use my slides I'd be happy to let > > them. I would prefer that they asked first, but, I'm for the giving > > away of psychology, lectures and all. I wouldn't confront anyone who > > appropriated my slides for educational use. > > > > > > > >-- > > > >__ Dr. Rick Stevens > > > >__ Psychology Department > > > >__ University of Louisiana @ Monroe > > > >__ [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=english > > > > --- > > To make changes to your subscription go to: > > http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english > > -- > -- Rick Stevens > -- Psychology Department > -- University of Louisiana at Monroe > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- > To make changes to your subscription go to: > http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english -- ----------==========>>>>>>>>>> ¨¨¨ <<<<<<<<<<==========---------- Sometimes you just have to try something, and see what happens. John W. Nichols, M.A. Assistant Professor of Psychology Tulsa Community College 909 S. Boston Ave., Tulsa, OK 74119 (918) 595-7134 Home: http://www.tulsa.oklahoma.net/~jnichols MegaPsych: http://www.tulsa.oklahoma.net/~jnichols/megapsych.html --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
