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I received permission to use some User Friendly strips in the course… I’m going to have to go back and dig through them to make sure there aren’t any other ones I want to use out there. Oh, darn.

Freedom of Expression is a book by Kembrew McCleod.
It’s awesome.
http://kembrew.com/books/
It’s available for purchase in physibook format and you can download the free, Creative Commons licensed pdf from that website.
To give you an idea of what the book is about- well, he trademarked the title. Think about it.

Here’s another video mash I saw off of Boing Boing:
Office Space meets the Super Friends
http://www.idiotwork.com/pages/tps.html

And don’t forget this gem also, from BoingBoing:
http://www.unhappybirthday.com/
Too long have kids been singing this song at birthday parties without paying royalties.

My personal major interest is intellectual property. I was introduced to some of the issues related to copyright from before I can really remember. One of the big things that concerned me early on in my college career was related to anime, as one of the founders of the Anime Club at Syracuse University. Did the anime club have the right to show episodes that were commercially released in the US? Could the anime club legally have showings of materials that were fan subtitled and not commercially available? What was the legal status of fansubs? What was the legal status of fandubs? What about fan transcripts? For that matter, what about fan fiction published on the Internet? What about…? etc.

I still think about these subjects often. ^_^

Kayla, Lori, Patrick, Quinn, Sam, and I spoke at Educause about scaling the course we’ve all taught, INF 312 Information in Cyberspace. When developing my section, I wrote a bit about some of the privacy concerns we had. Then I had to include copyright. Then I had to at least mention accessibility. Finally we lumped them into “legal concerns.” It’s not the largest part of the section I talk about. But it’s the part that keeps on slightly expanding. There’s a lot to say there.

There are some serious legal concerns that appear when you move a class online, and some of these aren’t immediately obvious. I’ll write about them a bit more when I make sure that this blog is working correctly. ^_^