What’s Copyrighted?What’s Copyrighted?
• ALL published material• Before 1976 you could chose to copyright
material, now you CAN’T
• For Websites:• links • original text • graphics • audio • video • Coding (html etc.)
• ALL published material• Before 1976 you could chose to copyright
material, now you CAN’T
• For Websites:• links • original text • graphics • audio • video • Coding (html etc.)
Summary of Multimedia Fair Use GuidelinesStudents may incorporate others' works into their multimedia creations and perform and display them for academic assignments Faculty may incorporate others' works into their multimedia creations
to create multimedia curriculum materials to teach remote classes where access and total number of students is limited; technology makes copying impossible
if materials can be copied, they may only be made available remotely (by network) for 15 days and then must be placed on reserve for on-site (at the remote location) use only
Faculty may demonstrate their multimedia creations at professional symposia and retain same in their own portfolios Time limit on fair use: 2 years from completion of the multimedia work Copies limit: generally, only 2, but joint work creators may each have a copy Portion limits:
motion media - up to 10% or 3 minutes, whichever is less text - up to 10% or 1000 words, whichever is less
poem - up to 250 words, but further limited to: three poems or portions of poems by one poet; or five poems or portions of poems by different poets from an anthology
music - up to 10% or 30 seconds, whichever is less photos and images - up to 5 works from one author; up to 10% or 15 works, whichever is less, from a collection database information - up to 10% or 2500 fields or cell entries, whichever is less
Summary of Multimedia Fair Use GuidelinesStudents may incorporate others' works into their multimedia creations and perform and display them for academic assignments Faculty may incorporate others' works into their multimedia creations
to create multimedia curriculum materials to teach remote classes where access and total number of students is limited; technology makes copying impossible
if materials can be copied, they may only be made available remotely (by network) for 15 days and then must be placed on reserve for on-site (at the remote location) use only
Faculty may demonstrate their multimedia creations at professional symposia and retain same in their own portfolios Time limit on fair use: 2 years from completion of the multimedia work Copies limit: generally, only 2, but joint work creators may each have a copy Portion limits:
motion media - up to 10% or 3 minutes, whichever is less text - up to 10% or 1000 words, whichever is less
poem - up to 250 words, but further limited to: three poems or portions of poems by one poet; or five poems or portions of poems by different poets from an anthology
music - up to 10% or 30 seconds, whichever is less photos and images - up to 5 works from one author; up to 10% or 15 works, whichever is less, from a collection database information - up to 10% or 2500 fields or cell entries, whichever is less
Creative CommonsCreative Commons
Creative Commons defines the spectrum of Possibilities between full copyright-all rightsReserved-and the public domain-no rights Reserved. Creative commons is a “some rights reserved” copyright.
Rhetorical VirtuesRhetorical Virtues
Property, Speech, and the Commons on the World-Wide Web
by Rosemary J. Coombe and Andrew Herman
What is ‘property’?What is ‘property’?
“Property is when I own something.”
Roots of the word:Latin word propius• that which one owns•a standard of behavior, conduct that is "proper”
Modern Commodities:The Corporate Identity
Modern Commodities:The Corporate Identity
logo, brand name, and marketing persona are acorporation’s most valuable assets.
Product
Brand Name
Corporate source
Positive Feelings
Case Study: LEGO andthe Maori
Case Study: LEGO andthe Maori
WordsCultureIconography…
…become the intellectualProperty rightsOf LEGO
Our language is not just about communication, it is about the activity of life... And given that our whole culture is built into the language, our spirituality is tied into the words
To the non-maori, maori words are just words that hold no intrinsic value, either positive or negative. Therefore, the decision to use a particular word is mine.
Maori: LEGO:
The ‘Contact Zone’The ‘Contact Zone’
“social spaces where disparate cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other”
“abstraction, commodification, and separation oflanguage and culture from peoples' social lives
and from the active performances through which we express meaning and value in
human communities”
The current, corporate and political form of intellectual property is the: