Sylvia asks, "Would a Special Interest Group in SCoPE (here in Moodle, or NING, or ...) be useful as a place to go for peer advice and up-to-date resources on copyright trends and developments?"
My answer, YES! It would be a GREAT IDEA!
PLEASE DO IT, SYLVIA!
~~marsha west
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I'm not sure of the law, but I would think it would fall under fair use since it makes use only of microscopic snippets -- and they are arranged in such a way as to completely avoid the intention of copying any full-fledged "idea" of the original author.
Am I right?
~~marsha
Am I right?
~~marsha
Let's see--suppose that I teach an online course. The learners in this course do collaborative work as they complete the assignments. The expectations are very clear, and one may only remain in the course if he/she contributes regularly and positively. Failure to participate leads to the person being dropped from the course.
Over the years there has been continuing discussion about whether a dropped learner should retain access to the course. Some would say that if the person retains "observer" status, (read, but not write privileges) he/she can continue to benefit from the work that continues to be done. Others feel that is unfair to those who are engaged in collaborative "construction" of learning -- and that it fails to provide a "safe and comfortable" learning environment.
It seems to me that this is a question that relates entirely to the issue of ownership of ideas --
I feel strongly that when someone leaves the class they should no longer have access to that space. The ideas being shared there belong to the collaborators, not to a lurker who has not contributed. . . .
What do others think about this??
Over the years there has been continuing discussion about whether a dropped learner should retain access to the course. Some would say that if the person retains "observer" status, (read, but not write privileges) he/she can continue to benefit from the work that continues to be done. Others feel that is unfair to those who are engaged in collaborative "construction" of learning -- and that it fails to provide a "safe and comfortable" learning environment.
It seems to me that this is a question that relates entirely to the issue of ownership of ideas --
I feel strongly that when someone leaves the class they should no longer have access to that space. The ideas being shared there belong to the collaborators, not to a lurker who has not contributed. . . .
What do others think about this??
Hmmm . . . .would it be useful to think about this. I may not "own an idea," but can I own the "shape of the idea as expressed" since it is my creation? Just as I cannot own words, but I can have copyright over text I have created??
~~marsha west
~~marsha west
I am Marsha West. I live on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. I am a consultant and work in the areas of online facilitation and moderation.
When I wrote my first course for the Virtual High School there was a written agreement that course content would be owned by me as author, by my school district, and by the VHS.
Later in the history of VHS, they changed that policy so that VHS owned the content of courses.
But it has been interesting to me since I took materials I had created for my f2f classes and translated them to the online venue. To what extent do I still own those documents? I don't know.
I don't own my home or my real-estate rental property since it's all mortgaged. I owe one more payment before I own my truck - and I believe I do own my Chrysler T&C. Technically I don't even own my dogs since the breeder still has co-owner status and control of breeding rights. Actually, though I think the dogs own me.
I have always thought I owned my ideas - my unpublished writing (when it's published at least part of the ownership transfers to the publisher). Not sure now.
I am concerned about what I see in the academic world where undergraduates are borrowing, cutting, pasting, and appropriating the work of others and calling it their own. The PowerPoint versions of research papers are rife with what's always been considered plagiarism - and students are insulted when challenged on this.
Looks like we are caught in an involuntary paradigm shift -- like it or not, things are changing.
~~marsha west
When I wrote my first course for the Virtual High School there was a written agreement that course content would be owned by me as author, by my school district, and by the VHS.
Later in the history of VHS, they changed that policy so that VHS owned the content of courses.
But it has been interesting to me since I took materials I had created for my f2f classes and translated them to the online venue. To what extent do I still own those documents? I don't know.
I don't own my home or my real-estate rental property since it's all mortgaged. I owe one more payment before I own my truck - and I believe I do own my Chrysler T&C. Technically I don't even own my dogs since the breeder still has co-owner status and control of breeding rights. Actually, though I think the dogs own me.
I have always thought I owned my ideas - my unpublished writing (when it's published at least part of the ownership transfers to the publisher). Not sure now.
I am concerned about what I see in the academic world where undergraduates are borrowing, cutting, pasting, and appropriating the work of others and calling it their own. The PowerPoint versions of research papers are rife with what's always been considered plagiarism - and students are insulted when challenged on this.
Looks like we are caught in an involuntary paradigm shift -- like it or not, things are changing.
~~marsha west