Last year, I wrote a post about a series of YouTube videos that I used to give a guest lecture on copyright, fair use, and Creative Commons. It went well enough that I was asked to come back this year and guest lecture again. I made some tweaks to the presentation this time around, switching the order …
For the past week or so, I’ve been helping my colleague Danah Henriksen teach the second year sequence of MSU’s Master of Arts in Educational Technology East Lansing Summer Cohort. Earlier this week, I stole away from our classroom to spend some time with the students enrolled in the first year sequence and to teach …
When it comes to information produced by the government, most people think that since it was produced through taxpayer expense, it should be freely and easily available to all. In regards to information produced by the federal government, U.S. copyright law (17 U.S.C. §105) states that these documents are in the public domain: they are …
Every year, January 1st also marks works from around the world that would be entering the public domain thanks to the copyright laws in theirs respective countries. Public Domain Reviews put a list of creators whose work that are entering the public domain. http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/class-of-2015/ (Kandinsky! Whooh!) Center of Study for the Public Domain put a …
This episode of Spencer Writes in the Library took place Thursday, August 7th around 1:30pm The Spot Where am I working today? I am on the third floor of the east wing, on the south side of the building. What’s a perk of this spot? There wasn’t anyone really around in this spot today, and …