Today, I was showing a bunch of colleagues how to use YouTube’s auto-captioning feature, and letting people do some demo videos. My colleagues recorded videos of themselves reading poetry, or reciting song lyrics – and those videos are probably technically derivative works! But the captions themselves are derivatives of the…
Monthly Archives: November 2012
Extremely off-topic: cold-weather bike gear
If you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen me mention my bike, and/or riding bikes, juuuust a few times. I’ve been bike-commuting in good weather pretty much since I moved to MN a couple years ago, but last winter, due to construction on campus that made buses much…
Making Mud
There is one copyright question I love to discuss with folks here at the University, because it’s one where I can give them an actual certain answer, and it’s one they want to hear: “Can we watch this movie in my class?” “Yes!” Ah, the joys of 17 USC §…
