Thank you Steve for your analysis, observations, and information. I will benefit from this as I work on creating materials.
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Steve Foerster <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mary wrote: > > << My name is Mary Ziller and I recently joined your wonderful group. > I hope to learn a lot with you. I have a question that I would like to > ask the group. I searched the group archives on "copyright" and found > only one thread that did not answer my question: How much of a > newspaper article can we use for online teaching and face to face > teaching? >> > > My approach to this would probably just be to have links in the course > that direct students to where the article is already hosted. Does > your situation make that not possible? > > > << How does a site likehttp://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/get the > copyrights to publish its excellent materials which are based on real > news articles? >> > > I'm not sure, but it looks like they read news articles and then write > their own summaries. > > > << And the admirable works by Susan Heyer *True stories in the news* > series. How does the copyright law work allowing her to produce ESL > books based on actual articles? I would like to write materials using > published news articles, but don't know how to get the copyrights > permissions. Do they have to be purchased? >> > > You mean you want to read the news, then write your own materials > based on what you learned? I don't think copyright is that stupid > yet, even in the U.S. If that's what you want to do you don't have to > pay for that. They don't own your brain! > > -=Steve=- > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
