Category Archives: copyright

DOC Cop

Posted on October 14, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

If you are looking for another free plagiarism tool, take a look at DOC Cop.  One of my students showed it to me this week. This one is more complex than Plagium’s copy and paste check.  DOC Cop works more … Continue reading →

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WIPO Does Copyright

Posted on September 27, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has released its second “Children’s Guide” to copyright.  The title is Learn From the Past, Create the Future. The book is appropriate for a student reading at the nine to twelve year old reading level.  … Continue reading →

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Copyright and Images

Posted on September 8, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

Here’s an article in techLearning that talks about dealing with copyright.  The article mentions Google Images by name.  This service from Google takes advantage of all the pictures “found” by Google’s web crawler.  From the image search box, a picture … Continue reading →

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Research Says: Copyright should be 14 years

Posted on August 11, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

I have been doing some research on copyright and how things should be.  I came across this paper by Rufus Pollock.  He is a graduate student studying economics and intellectual property rights.  According to Pollock, as the cost of producing … Continue reading →

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