55. I am beleaguered because the Information Age doesn't look anything like the age I thought it would, could, or should. As an information professional trained to organize, store, retrieve, disseminate, and evaluate the quality of information, I am chagrined at how little we value information as a freely transacted commodity. I might not feel so beleaguered: * if the information age were about the dissemination of information, and not its commodification; * if the distinction between reference images and reproduction images were recognized. Reference images would be freely transacted for scholarship, teaching, criticism, research, news, transacted without rights and permissions. Reference images would require attribution and source documentation. Reproduction images, on the other hand, would be those high resolution, large scale images that meet all the requirements of fidelity, attribution, and permissions required by the copyright owner. * if we recognized the difference between display and publication on the World Wide Web; * if faculty and students would cite their use of images with the same attention to detail as they should cite their use of words in quotations; * if normative and prescriptive guidelines like the Classroom Guidelines and CONFU will go away in favor of principles of use and right practice, resulting in a strengthening of fair use on the Web; * if there were bumper stickers that said " fair use trumps site licensing". Strike a blow against the commodification of information, the commercialization of the World Wide Web, the marginalization of education, the mystification of fair use: assert your statutory right and create responsible fair use web sites. I wouldn't go as far as Abby Hoffman's Steal This Book, but I do say, "Use That Image."
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Notes de l'éditeur
Welcome! Thank you for being here today! About 18 months ago, I began working on a short course for faculty on the subject of copyright literacy- about 90 minutes of content. Not so much, shouldn't be too difficult. After all, I am a librarian with all the information resources of HCC at my fingertips, right! Well, I quickly realized that a 90 minute overview of the entire copyright issue was going to be a little rushed! So, I was actually excited to have a chance to really delve deeply into one specific aspect of copyright and intellectual property- the issues that pertain to artists and to students in our digital environment. Again, though, I found that even a discrete topic as this one has to be severely reined in in order to fit a 90 minute time frame, so again, like the broader seminar I teach, I will focus on just enough background and legal, and legislative information to get us acclimated, but we'll really focus on the practical- on the day-to-day scenarios that we encounter in the educational and artistic contexts that we fear will come back to haunt us! What of the creative works of others can we use in the service of art, of expression, of education? How can we use this material? How can we protect our own creations while still contributing to the works of others? This will be the focus of this presentation today.
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