Re: a nudge for me

Jack Bernard <bernar[_at_]umich.edu> wrote:
>
> I'm presenting to a large group of faculty this Friday on copyright
> in higher education. In particular I'm focusing on the "student
> perspective." I had hoped to start with a good joke, but haven't
> found anything funny that relates to copyright. Any ideas???
>
> Also, if you can think of anything relating to a student perspective
> on copyright, I'd appreciate a nudge in the next day or so.

(to pour oil on the fire in this forum),

I might start out by saying that in academia, it seems to be assumed that universities own the original work of their students, but not faculty, and that this accepted wisdon is probably just the opposite of reality. Note though that I am talking ownership here, and not license, which may be quite different.

Another factoid is that much cheating may ultimately be actionable as copyright infringement, and that if you do it enough, over a short enough period of time, you may have a felony. (But that of course requires a commercial value for the infringed work, which may be missing in most cases of cheating).

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