Subject: Online Copyright Tutorial/Sign Up Now!
David Green (david@ninch.org)
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:38:43 -0500
Message-Id: <v04011706b1f631e30845@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:38:43 -0500 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Online Copyright Tutorial/Sign Up Now!
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
August 11, 1998
>Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 11:20:29 -0500 (EST)
>From: "Kenneth D. Crews" <copyinfo@indiana.edu>
>To: "David L. Green" <david@ninch.org>
>Subject: Online Copyright Tutorial/Sign Up Now!
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Educators! Researchers! Librarians! Authors!
Artists! Graphic Designers! Webmasters! Publishers!
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Indiana University Copyright Management Center
Announces
The Second
Indiana University
Online Copyright Tutorial
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The Copyright Management Center for Indiana
University is delighted to invite you to
participate in this innovative and updated
opportunity for learning about the meaning of
copyright for your teaching, research, and other
activities at the university. The Indiana
University Online Copyright Tutorial is a series
of short, informal, readable, and (we hope)
helpful messages delivered to you in electronic
form, via a listserv, approximately three times
per week. The new series will begin September 2
and extend through the fall semester.
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The principal mission of the Copyright Management
Center is to inform the academic community about
copyright. The inaugural offering of the tutorial
attracted more than 2,200 subscribers. Here are
some of their comments:
"Just enough information per message
to digest without straining the brain
or the eyes!"
"Very helpful. I plan to use many of
the links and references far beyond
this tutorial."
"I was glad to be able to participate
without having any affiliation with
the University, and found the lessons
intelligently written, thoughtful, and
thought-provoking."
"I found the tutorial stimulating,
informative, and I've been recommending
it to colleagues."
"One of the real strengths of the program
was the length of the messages. They were
short enough to be able to fit into a busy
schedule, but long enough to address meat."
"The best feature was the clarity of the
writing. I used to work for lawyers and
I never met one who spoke actual *English*
until now. :-)"
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Copyright is rapidly changing. The inaugural
tutorial has been revised and updated to include
new trends, developments, and strategies in
copyright, such as:
* A new court decision that directly
addresses the fair use of historical
and literary manuscripts for scholarly
purposes;
* Legislation in Congress that may change
the term of protection for copyrights;
* New court rulings about the possible
immunity of state colleges and
universities from infringement claims;
* Developments in the law for distance
learning; and
* Congressional action to create new
"copyright-like" protections for
databases and to secure digital
information resources.
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While this tutorial is designed particularly for
educators, librarians, and staff--especially at
Indiana University--anyone who is interested is
welcome to subscribe and be a part of it. We also
welcome previous subscribers who are looking for a
refresher and coverage of new developments.
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To subscribe, simply send an email message to:
listserv@listserv.iupui.edu.
Leave the subject blank and do not use a signature
block. The full text of your message should read:
sub Copyright-Online-L [your real name]
For example: sub Copyright-Online-L Jane Doe
After your subscription has been received, you will
receive a "confirmation request" to which you must
respond. You will be required to reply to the
message with the word "ok" in the body of the reply
message (do not include a copy of the message sent
to you -- only the word "ok"). This will confirm
that your email address is valid. Following the
confirmation, you will receive an email message
indicating that you have been subscribed. The
message will provide "rules" about how the list
functions and instructions for un-subscribing
from the list.
For additional information about the tutorial,
visit:
http://www.iupui.edu/it/copyinfo/online_tutorial.html
For more information about the CMC, visit:
http://www.iupui.edu/it/copyinfo
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