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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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AndreaMosaic

Posted on April 28, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

John mentioned this mosaic program during EdTechWeekly last night.  AndreaMosaic is free.  You provide the program a directory of your pictures and one target image.  Above is something I created today.  I pointed AM to the folder with our pictures from … Continue reading →

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Lecture Copyright

Posted on April 4, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

Here’s a gem from Techdirt about a professor that is suing someone for selling notes of his lecture.  He is claiming he has a copyright on what he says in class and someone else can’t take his ideas, write them … 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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