Subscribe to RSS Feed Digital Media Collective Intellectual Property Interest Group
The next Digital Media Collective meeting will take place at 11:00am on May 11, in Thompson Library Room 165 when Trisha Davis from the University Libraries’ Copyright Help Center and Anne Gilliland from the Health Sciences Copyright Management Office kick off the new DMC Intellectual Property Interest Group! Anne and Trisha will discuss recent cases [...]
Lessig Chat: Fair Use and Politics in the Digital Age
The Digital Media Collective, OSU Libraries Copyright Office, Health Sciences Copyright Management Office, and the Digital Union will host a screening of a live webcast by educator and author Lawrence Lessig on February 25, 2010, from 6:00 – 8:00pm in Thompson Library‘s 11th floor Campus Reading Room. Lessig’s talk, streamed live from the Harvard Berkman [...]
Copyright: It’s Not Just for Artists, or, Why Copyright Education in the Health Sciences?
When I went to law school in mid-life, some people were admiring, some excited, some horrified. Law elicits strong emotions, and sometimes mere acquaintances actively encouraged me or beseeched me to stop! Some of the people who have been the most encouraging have been my doctors, perhaps because they identified with the impulse to follow [...]
Why Copyright Education?
In May of this year, American Libraries published a letter I wrote about copyright education. I wrote the letter in response to an opinion piece called “The Copyright Mummies” that Melanie Schlosser, also of OSU, had written in the March issue about the harm of long copyright terms. In it, Schlosser argued that we should [...]