10 January 2007

COPYRIGHTS

One of the problems that some teachers have with publishing web based work for their students (mainly at the University end of the educational system) ... is the issue of INTELLECTUAL OWNERSHIP. "Place MY content on the net for ANYONE to be able to access and use?! Not likely!"

The other point of authorship is being able to legally protect as YOUR material, whatever you are posting on the internet. Can you imagine some "Dan Brown" type senário of plagiarism accusations flying around about who copied what of whose work and when?!

Anyway, have a look at www.creativecommons.org - here you have the chance to legally license your work - and have a certain amount of control of what can be legally done with it.

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