A long time ago, in a pre-computer media landscape when copying and pasting meant you actually got to play with scissors and glue, teachers and students created multimedia projects with little regard to copyright law. Images from magazines, corporate logos, and other media were used with reckless abandon to create visually and aurally pleasing projects. Before the dawn of the internet, these types of projects were hung in hallways,...

I looked through my Diigo groups earlier in the week, just to see what I would find, and this site stuck out for me. It has to be by far one of the simplest, and easiest to decipher, websites I’ve ever seen addressing whether a published work is copyrighted or falls under the public domain. With it’s handy little red slider arrow, you can quickly ascertain whether a work that you’re studying, or would like to use in a...

This morning on the way in to work I was listening to NPR and heard about the tragic story of Harry Potter superfan, Steven Jan Vander Ark, being sued for copyright infringement. Apparently, he’s publishing his popular online version of the Harry Potter Lexicon. The long and short of it is simple; J.K. Rowling LOVES the fan site, as it catalogs everything Harry Potter, and has even gone so far as to the use the lexicon site for her...