Copyright for Educators, Cycle 2 - Mar 2010

Hello Damon,
I'm looking forward to trying out this learning format and working with you.

We have now started week 1, should we try to schedule some kind of conference and hope that the others can join us at some point?

The Case Scenearios are in the "View" tab at teh top. Here's teh link to week 1:
http://p2pu.org/assignment/case-study-scenario-week-1

I never rec'd notifications of anything happening in this course. Stumbled upon the group and I'm assuming this is the USA group.

Did week 1 change from the 15th to the 2nd?

I am in New Jersey. Bio notes posted on profile. I have taught online for 10 years, but finding this particular "LMS" setup to be a bit awkward to navigate.

My name is Diana Deen. I help faculty at UK develop online courses and so am interested in furthering my knowledge of copyright issues, especially how to explain these issues to the faculty.

Go CATS!!!

1. The extracts from Charles Darwin's personal diaries, notebooks, and "The Origin of the Species" are all in public domain. He lived from 12 February 1809 to 19 April 1882. We are well past the 70 years after his death.

2. The video clips from the BBC TV documentary and the film "Creation" are under copyright. "Creation" just came out on 22 January 2010. There are video clips and a trailer available on the website (creationthemovie.com). A link to these resources could without a doubt be included in the DVD. It is also very likely that the short clips would be ok, for use for her class. She would need to reference this site. I'm not so sure about that would work if she were to publish her DVD.

3. The images from the Guardian News & Media Limited website are copyrighted. However, she can use them for the DVD for her class (not for publication) as stated in the website: "You may download and print extracts from the material and make copies of these for your own personal and non-commercial use only." She would need to reference this site.

4. The Genetic Code Chart is not protected by US copyright and if she wants to be perfectly free, she could use the chart on the governments website (molbio.info.nih.gov/gcode.html). As stated in the "Copyright Basics for our readings this week - this is US copyright basics as works not eligible for copyright - "works consisting entirely of information that is common property and containing no original authorship" (p 3) or "works by the U.S. government" (p 5).

5. Her original drawings, quizzes, etc. are her property UNLESS in her signed contract with her school they have stated that her works created for the classroom belong to the school. If she is working in a school, particularly public school in the U.S., it is very unlikely that the school has declared ownership of the materials she creates for her classroom.

6. Now for the discussion of publishing this DVD. The only materials that have some copyright implications would be the video clips and the images. I would also have some reservations about the Genetic Code Chart. I might make some slight changes to the organization of the chart - or add some commentary to the chart. The information holds no copyright, but the specific organization of the information may. Regarding the images, I would search for public domain images, which are surely available considering the death date of Charles Darwin. And finally, before publishing the DVD, permissions would need to be received from BBC regarding the documentary and BBC Films and Ocean Pictures regarding the clips from the film.

3. "She plans to make 20 DVD copies of the resource to give to her students to use as part of the class group science project." I think she is safe under Fair Use (search the Hofman pdf p 65 is the start)

4. "After the conference she was approached by an educational publisher who would like to publish and reproduce the resource." The publisher would need to obtain rights for some of the protected resources as noted by others.

Kenneth,
I think you make a very good point - that whether the Darwin material is copyrighted may depend on what, exactly, Zanele is using. If she's simply reproducing the words Darwin wrote, that might be different than using other kinds of materials, like reproduced manuscripts.

I find the platform for the material awkward to use (and I've been using online course materials for 10 years). P2PU should use Moodle!
I still get no email notifications. I'm OK being the cut & paste person for a week's answer though I don't feel we have a complete week one answer.
Is there a page that actually shows our entire pink group? How many are we? We should select/assign weeks.

I did edits today after logging in using my existing PBwiki account.

Kenneth,
I think we can assume that's true. Does someone want to take responsibility for turning in the assignment? My laptop crashed and I'm on a different computer right now, I may not be able to be on as frequently as I have been , at least for the next few days.

Hi. My group hasn't been using the wiki (since there are only 2 of us), but you can should be able to find the final version of other groups' assignments without too many clicks by going to the 'view' tab, and then clicking on the particular assignment. So far, there are three assignments for 'week 1' and one more under the general 'assignments' heading. All the best, Phil (from the Limey group)

I think I submitted the assignment to the correct location - however, I see more submissions at http://p2pu.org/assignment/case-study-scenario-week-1 so I also uploaded it there.

I suggest we post all our answers for week 2 and our discussion in our wiki at http://archive.p2pu.org/Copyright%20for%20Educators%20Pink%20Group%20Wik...

I started week 2, but someone needs to take responsibility for aggregating the answers and submitting a final version at the end of the week.

BTW, we are also supposed to respond to the OTHER groups' answers each week...

I think we should now be using our week 2 discussion space.