An excellent resource

The Otago School of Art has created a great bibliography of links about copyright. They can be viewed at:http://www.wikieducator.org/School_of_Art_Digital_Literacy .

I am copying the list here as well, just in case the school removes them at some future date! Here they are:

A COPYRIGHT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Richard Niven, Solicitor and Copyright Manager, gives a quick wrap of copyright law http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/twu/twu-20080223-1350-Copyright-048.mp3

OTAGO POLYTECHNIC STUDENTS CLL brochure “Copyright the Law and You”. You’ve got it. It was a hand out. See also http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/billrobertson/copyright.htm

COPYRIGHT NZ LEGISLATION Literary style = legaleese. The entire riveting 1994 Copyright Act. Wallpaper your bedroom with it and memorise permitted uses sections. http://gpacts.knowledge-basket.co.nz/gpacts/public/text/1994/an/143.html

What’s happening in limbo land? The proposed amendments to the 1994 Copyright Act http://www.med.govt.nz/templates/ContentTopicSummary____1103.aspx

See also the Copyright Council of NZ

COPYRIGHT/INTELLECUTAL PROPERTY/MAORI IP An enlightened recap of the cornerstones of European-style copyright law and a compelling look at the future of tikanga as a way of addressing spiritual, intellectual and material concerns regarding traditional knowledges in Aotearoa. Mana Tuturu: Maori Treasures & Intellectual Property Rights by Barry Barclay Auckland University Press, 2005.

LICENSING/COLLECTING AGENCIES/CLL Providing a comprehensive introduction to the Copyright Act. Has a useful FAQs section and includes a summary PowerPoint presentation. Click click. http://www.copyright.co.nz/

COPYRIGHT AND CREATING Introduction to ‘real world’ digital issues. Includes case studies of high profile multimedia infringements (wav files available). http://benedict.com/

MACHINIMA – Excellent keynote address by Fred von Lohmann from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and another that may interest from Dan Hunter (on innovation, property and virtual worlds) from the recent symposium run by Games and the Law research group. http://testpattern.blip.tv/file/672264/

Illegal art or illegal imagination, an exhibition which explored the legalities of “illegal” creating and the corporate world. http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7030

For the reasons why YOU should become a copyright activist. How big money is eroding fair use for the public good by proprietary practices and penalising measures. Vaidhyanathan, Siva, Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity, New York University Press, 2003. May also be searchable on Google books.

FAIR USE http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/index.html

CREATIVE COMMONS LICENCES When looking at using CC make sure you know exactly what you want your licence to do (or not to do). http://creativecommons.org/. Use the local version CC NZ as this has been tailored to our particular jurisdiction http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/

For a summary on pros and cons of CC licensing issue in education, see the google.doc hyperlink at http://trustdr.ulster.ac.uk/outputs.php

UK Artists – study to approaches to copyright and creative commons http://www.openbusiness.cc/2006/11/28/release-of-report-on-%E2%80%98uk-artists-copyright-and-creative-commons/
COPYRIGHT GENERAL Easy to navigate, small partially chewed portions. Crash course in copyright (note US system) http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/Intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm#top

Information Outlook magazine summary of “info rights”. Covers common everyday digital uses including scanning, web site content, e-mail, linking, listservs, browsing and caching, pulled together by Lesley Harris. http://www.sla.org/io/2007/05/40.cfm

Good straightforward articles on specific areas of interest eg. Fair Use http://library.creativecow.net/

A copyright ‘calculator’. Clear and concise. May need to navigate to fuller descriptions for clarification of terms and interpretations. http://www.vraweb.org/resources/ipr/dirc/index.html

Very broad, website delivering the UK position on copyright. http://www.tasi.ac.uk/advice/managing/copyright_faq.html

OTHER DIGITAL LITERACIES Otago University has put together self-directed modules on digital literacy. Very simple, easy to navigate and covers the basic information and some how to’s for various media tools. It also covers copyright essentials. http://oil.otago.ac.nz/oil/module9.html