Nina Tarner wrote:
> > Faculty can also protect themselves from having their notes posted on the web
> > by copyrighting the notes.
Rick Froman replied:
> Or, you could just do what I and others do and post your notes to the web. I
> actually post my powerpoint presentations to the web for all to see. Having
> the notes should not be equivalent to the experience of being in class and
> taking your own notes. If it is, let's just sell the notes with the textbook and
> all get together for the final exam.
This is a truly murky issue, but presentations I have heard recently from
attorneys associated with the UNC system indicate that (grab this) ANYTHING YOU
WRITE IS COPYRIGHT MATERIAL EVEN IF YOU DO NOT PUT THE COPYRIGHT SYMBOL ON IT
OR REGISTER THE MATERIAL AS COPYRIGHT.
Postings to a website, in principle, under this rule are also copyright
material.
Now it is also apparent from this perspective that one must be right careful
about what one includes in one's presentations and web postings--material
lifted from elsewhere and "published" in this manner may violate someone else's
copyright.
Again, there is a lot of ambiguity about just what constitutes fair use of
copyright material, and even the attorney's will tell you that it might just
boil down to what the judge presiding over a copyright infringement case might
think.
...careful, careful. Your own work is protected; so is the other guy's.
Pat Cabe
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