http://ucanr.org/blogs/ANRcopyright/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed Discussion space for copyright issues and questions en-us UC ANR http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/ Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:43:59 PST Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:43:59 PST I got an email from an advisor this week asking if it was appropriate to add one of the Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/) copyright tags to a short publication that was to be shared and duplicated widely.  It's a very good question. For an advisory or specialist with a CE appointment, copyright ownership is already settled. For anything you do that fits under "form of fixed expression" (text on paper or on screen, audio clip, data table or graph, etc) and that is a part of your...... Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:43:59 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1908&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed rwsams@ucdavis.edu(Robert W. Sams) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1908 A couple of folks have asked me questions about trademarks lately. That makes perfect sense, of course. If we're working to recover costs, we want a little more control than we might have before. I'll confess that trademark law is new to me. I need to educate myself a little more. Hopefully, I can provide some links and best practices pretty soon. One thing I can tell you is that formally registering a trademark with the federal government is not trivial. It costs at least $300 and some...... Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:14:18 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1489&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed rwsams@ucdavis.edu(Robert W. Sams) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1489 Last week, Wendy Rotchstein from San Francisco/San Mateo emailed me this question... Good afternoon Robert, Should we be using a University form when asking for permission to republish an article from a website? Up to now we have just had email permission for re-print into our 4-H newsletter, but I am wondering if the University requires anything more formal? I was not sure who to ask in your department, if this is not your area could you possibly re-direct me to the right department or...... Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:30:47 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1397&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed rwsams@ucdavis.edu(Robert W. Sams) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1397 For the past few months, a group of UCD faculty and staff have been working on a set of recommendations regarding instructional technology. While the report hasn't been issued, discussions at the last meeting of the Campus Council for Information Technology (CCFIT) revealed that one of the very top concerns expressed by faculty about using online instructional technology regarded copyright and intellectual property. As in most things copyright, especially in higher education, the answer to...... Fri, 29 May 2009 09:16:56 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1335&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed rwsams@ucdavis.edu(Robert W. Sams) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1335 What do the Google Settlement (see earlier post) and corporate sponsorship have to do with each other? They're connecting in my mind. Turns out that May 5, 2009 is the day that authors and publishers have to choose whether to "opt out" of the Google Settlement. It's not a simple problem, but it has a pretty simple answer. Higher education institutions like UC are not going to start proceedings against Google in the courts, so why reserve the right to do so? Does this mean we...... Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:31:20 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1218&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed rwsams@ucdavis.edu(Robert W. Sams) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1218 Brenda Dawson pointed out that I should have posted the link to the original article location in the previous post. Absolutely right, of course. However, you can't post links in comments, so here it is in a post all by its lonesome. Enjoy. http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=630 Bob... Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:19:42 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1098&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed rwsams@ucdavis.edu(Robert W. Sams) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1098 In keeping with my theme in this blog, I found an interesting paper asking some fundamental questions about problems with current copyright, with special attention to education. Here's a snippet.... In this article, we explore how the technological, social, cultural, and legal developments of the digital age challenge educators and students who seek to make use of copyrighted material for educational purposes and offer educators strategies for dealing with today’s copyright...... Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:04:15 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1000&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed rwsams@ucdavis.edu(Robert W. Sams) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=1000 Recently, Google announced that a settlement had been reached with a large group of authors and publishers who were suing the giant search engine because it had scanned and indexed large numbers of books, including library collections from major universities. Many of these books were still protected by copyright. If you want to see how this works, go to http://books.google.com/ and search for a book. Not only can you see some pages from the book, you see search terms highlighted in the...... Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:11:20 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=827&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed rwsams@ucdavis.edu(Robert W. Sams) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=827 For some time, the issue of open source software and other forms of "community license," including things like Creative Commons and, in our case, the eXtension contributor and institutional agreements, has been relatively unimportant for UC. Recently, all that has changed. For one thing, there are a number of major projects involving open source software that are aimed at major business and educational computer systems. At UC Davis, the "Smart Site" learning system for......
]]> Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:30:51 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=706&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed rwsams@ucdavis.edu(Robert W. Sams) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=706 At least once a week, I get a question about posting publications on the web. I wish these questions were easy to answer and straightforward, but often that is not the case. However, in the case of ANR numbered publications that are printed, please ask us first. We don't want to inhibit the distribution of information, but we also have a responsibility to manage our inventory responsibly. Posting publications to the web can have unanticipated financial implications that should be considered...... Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:35:02 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=325&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed rwsams@ucdavis.edu(Robert W. Sams) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=325 Legal and policy elements of creating copyrightable educational materials as part of your cooperative extension program are getting more complicated. More cooperators, more agreements, funding arrangements and cost recovery are all things that can come back and bite you. In addition, while we all have to follow UC policy, there can be differences between campus and ANR procedures. ANR Communication Services can help you plan ahead and avoid having to fix projects where key issues of...... Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:09:15 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=440&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed rwsams@ucdavis.edu(Robert W. Sams) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=440 While the situation is a little different within ANR, the UCD Policy and Procedure Manual section 250-04 has the core University policy references and links relating to copyright within UC. Here's that link. http://manuals.ucdavis.edu/ppm/250/250-04.htm ANR is working on a new section for the ANR Administrative Handbook, but it isn't ready for general consumption yet. Please contact me if you have questions about how UC policy applies to materials produced as part of your cooperative...... Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:23:57 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=297&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed rwsams@ucdavis.edu(Robert W. Sams) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=297 A number of questions have come up recently about the deceptively simple term "public domain." In the old days, cooperative extension publications were often (but not always) distributed with no restrictions on duplication and no formal statement of copyright. Some folks have said that they were in the public domain. That term really doesn't apply to what we do in ANR anymore. Materials produced in the course of your program assignment are copyrighted by the Regents of the...... Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:43:32 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=284&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed rwsams@ucdavis.edu(Robert W. Sams) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=284