Category Archives: copyright

Legitimate Takedown and Fair Use

Posted on September 15, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

If you haven’t seen the Sarah Palin parody on Saturday Night Live, don’t go to YouTube. Here is the YouTube page where the video was. As you might expect, content created on Saturday is still protected by copyright on Sunday. … Continue reading →

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Copyright at the Art Museum

Posted on May 19, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

Over the weekend we visited the Toledo Museum of Art.  It’s an impressive facility with pieces from many famous artists.  The spaces available in the galleries offer exceptional viewing environments. As with many museums, most of the art can be photographed … Continue reading →

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Turnitin’s method is fair use

Posted on March 26, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

Last year a group of students decided to fight back against the plagiarism tool being used by their school.  Before submitting an assignment to Turnitin, one of the students submitted all the legal documents to register the original paper as a copyrighted … Continue reading →

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What’s wrong with this picture

Posted on March 24, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

Here is something most teenagers don’t know.  Stealing a CD from Wal-Mart isn’t nearly as bad (based on the magnitude of the fine) as downloading the same CD using an illegal P2P networking.  See chart below. If the height of … Continue reading →

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eTech Copyright Law Presentation

Posted on March 12, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

It took me a while to get this online. The audio doesn’t sound great, but I think most of it is understandable. I’ll post something tomorrow to explain how I created this video resource.

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