Copyright Resources and Current Issues

I was browsing iTunesU for interesting video and found a video series at Central Washington University by Sherry Gordon. So if you'd like to see a good overview of fair use, or get a sense of how others teach introductions to fair use, this is a very good resource.

Go to iTunes, iTunesU then find Central Washington University on the list of contributing schools. On the Central Washington University page, you'll find a box called:

Activities, performers, guest speakers and sports.

In that box there will be a series called Featured Audio and Video and the Sherry Gordon series on Fair Use and the TEACH Act are in that series.

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Not such a great headline, but it's about new demands on higher education being suggested to state lawmakers by RIAA and MPAA.

The Chronicle of Higher Education reported on the recent (May 7-8) Educause Policy Conference session concerning the attempt to influence state legislatures. Apparently RIAA and MPAA are asking legislatures to consider forcing colleges and universities to police their networks for P2P sharing and even to go so far as to force institutions to install anti-piracy software.

As of this posting Educause hasn't uploaded and of the session materials, but if they're uploaded, they'll show up on the Educause Policy Conference program pages: http://www.educause.edu/Program/14795

http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15884

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