Copyright: Fundamental Gap?

Copyright: Fundamental Gap?
VNU's OLNews sent out some advice to educators on copyright issues last Tuesday, advice that seemed to me so one-sided and misguided that I was prompted to send back a missive in return. The essence of the response was that academics and instructional designers ought to stop blithely following the doctrine of blind adherence to copyright and to begin circumventing the copyright machinery by not using proprietary materials and by not signing their own copyrights over to publishers. More...