Upcoming workshop sessions at the University of Minnesota. Non-UMN folks are welcome, but please check in with the instructor first (especially for the online sessions)! Copyright In The Classroom (and Online)Can you show a movie in class? Can you distribute copies of a newspaper article? What are you allowed to…
Monthly Archives: February 2014
Where copyrights come from (part I) – Copyediting does -not- create a new copyright
In US law, copyright magically comes into existence when someone creates an original work of authorship. The copyright is actually based in the original expression contained in the work, not whether there was effort involved in the work’s creation. So for the specific arrangement of words (+/- images) that make…
