{"id":188,"date":"2013-01-01T23:11:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T04:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/digitalpedagogy\/?p=188"},"modified":"2013-01-01T23:11:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T04:11:15","slug":"occupy-the-public-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.briancroxall.net\/digitalpedagogy\/2013\/01\/01\/occupy-the-public-domain\/","title":{"rendered":"“Occupy the public domain”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve taken the title of my proposal from Jennifer Rothman’s February 6, 2012 op-ed piece<\/a> in the San Francisco Chronicle where she argues, “Instead of providing for sharing […] important [civic] moments, our government has been complicit in endorsing a vision of copyright law in which nothing is free for use by the public.” Today (January 1, 2013), the Center for the Study of the Public Domain<\/a> at Duke University published its annual Public Domain Day list<\/a> of works that would have entered the public domain had the copyright term not been extended, via the Copyright Act of 1976 and the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension, from 56 years to life plus 70 years (or 95 years for corporate authors). A case currently pending in the Supreme Court<\/a> involves the continued viability of the “first sale” doctrine and textbooks. I’m used to being the “copyright person” at these sorts of un-gatherings, and so I’m going to beat once again the copyleft drum and propose a session in which we brainstorm strategies for “occupying the public domain.”<\/p>\n

So much of the work described in the proposals posted thus far would be greatly facilitated by students and teachers having the right to remix or reuse existing work and publish the results publicly on the web or elsewhere. What is being done at our institutions and by us personally to secure that right? What can we do to make the regulatory system more hospitable to the work we do (or would like to do) in the classroom? Why does all of the conversation about “educational” fair use seem to center around course management systems and what can and cannot be copied (consumed), while neglecting the issues presented by students as user\/producers of copyrighted work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve taken the title of my proposal from Jennifer Rothman’s February 6, 2012 op-ed piece in the San Francisco Chronicle where she argues, “Instead of providing for sharing […] important [civic] moments, our government has been complicit in endorsing a vision of copyright law in which nothing is free for use by the public.” Today … <\/p>\n

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