Stanford Center for Internet and Society

i have been neglecting this blog, in part because of the spam, but also because the last month or so has been crazy busy. I'm very excited to be a non-res fellow. Lots more stuff and more attention to the blog starting in January.

a post at www.academiccopyright,com on repub of pd work and work that is harder to figue out status as an example... not glam but practical ex for scholars, students and teachers.

One must remember one's biography is personal, complex, messy, and lovely: see full post at Academic Copyright - Elizabeth Townsend.

been working on a paper on international commercial arbitration which should be done at the end of the week. will get back to academic copyright issues then.

LibraryLaw Blog: Locking up Hemingway

about unpublished short story from 1924 not being able to be pub b/c of lit executors + CTEA.

still have tech problems -- new posts at http://academiccopyright.typepad.com on duration (charts that are helpful) and more on the MT papers and the unpublished public domain.

My other blog
Academiccopyright.typepad.com got some attention from COPYFIGHT Copyfight" href="http://www.corante.com/copyfight/">Corante > Copyfight this weekend, along with a mention on SIVACRACY.NET: Siva Vaidhyanathan's Weblog. It also got added to the list of copyfighters. Pretty cool.

The discussions they were interested in were about the "publishing" of the Mark Twain papers on microfilm and also the relationship of internet activism to the broader use of cultural materials.

Published Works

Legal and Policy Responses to the Disappearing "Teacher Exception" or Copyright Ownership in the 21st Century University, 4 MINN. INTELL. PROP. REV. 209 (2003) (available at mipr.umn.edu/archive/v4n2/townsend.pdf)

This article expores the historical changes in the presumption that teacher's own their copyrighted materials. It also gives specific suggestions on how teachers can retain copyright, if that is something they are concerned about.

I have posted at http://academiccopyright.typepad.com some thoughts on the availability of copyright information and archival materials -- three different models. I am still having trouble on this blog getting materials to save and publish. Sorry for sending everyone to a different blog.

The jist - three different models - one where the archive has copyright everything they could unpublished, and so the materials remain under copyright until 2048; another (Library of Congress) that gives c info on each collection (lovely); and a traditional (non-digital) archive that is no help whatsoeve

still havig tech trouble w/movable type - go to http://academiccopyright.typepad.com