I think this is rather rediculous…
Peter Hirtle, the university copyright compliance officer, explains the problem as a lack of understanding about electronic media. “Faculty members are now where students were five years ago with Napster. Just because it’s easy to take something and put it on a website doesn’t mean it’s legal to do so.â€
Regarding fair use, and repetitive use…What if the prof. teaches the same class every semester, does he/she have to re-ask every time to use a material? Why can’t they just keep the material out?
However, repeated use is considered to have adverse impact on market sales. “We don’t know if repeated use is allowed… that’s a question we have not addressed.†Hirtle said. He added later, “The only time you know for sure if something is fair use is when five members of the Supreme Court say it is.â€
And what about Google digitizing every book on the planet…seems to mee like information that is accessable is for the best…look what happens when one leaves a computer out for slum-kids to use according to Sugata Mitra, PhD.
Published by Pete Ippel
Pete Ippel, the son of a dancer and a musician, was born in Oak Park, Illinois and has been surrounded by the arts since birth. He moved to Morris, Illinois in 1989 and started to participate in athletics rather than dance. After high school, Pete attended Cornell University where he received a BA in psychology and a BFA in photo / digital art making. He continued to follow his sporting dreams in the high jump, which culminated in a school record leap of 7 feet 1/2 inch in 2001.
In May 2004 he attained an MFA degree in the New Genres department of the San Francisco Art Institute. Presently Pete is a practicing artist whose work is in numerous private collections and has been exhibited in New York, California, and internationally.
Mr. Ippel resides in Working Artists Ventura, a sustainable artist community in southern California. In addition, he teaches art, is a web developer, an active blogger, and still high jumps from time to time.
As a passionate problem solver and a pragmatic optimist, Pete’s art and his life are full of exciting challenges.
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