copyright

“Don’t I Own My Own Work?”: Negotiating to Keep Your Copyright Thursday, June 2; 10 a.m.-noon11348 Charles E. Young Research Library As a UCLA faculty member, you must be productive in a “publish or perish” environment. But in your rush to publish, are you signing an agreement with your publisher without reading it fully or understanding its implications? You might unknowingly surrender your copyright and, along with it, the rights to use and reuse your work as you wish. Find out how to read author agreements and learn strategies for negotiating agreements that protect your rights to your intellectual property….

A web article from NPR on “jailbreaking” cellphones includes the following info of interest to those using videos in class presentations: From: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128773367&ft=1&f=1001 “…According to new government rules announced Monday, (there will be)… new exemptions from a 1998 federal law that prohibits people from bypassing technical measures that companies put on their products to prevent unauthorized uses. The Library of Congress, which oversees the Copyright Office, reviews and authorizes exemptions every three years to ensure that the law does not prevent certain non-infringing use of copyright-protected material. (Among the exemptions is one to)… allow college professors, film students and documentary…