Thanks for everyone's contributions to this topic.
The guidelines are proposed for our teachers preparing on-line courses, to avoid
colleagues downloading great chunks of existing web pages and images, and
including them in/as their own work. This nearly happened before Christmas, when
an author gave us some images for a forthcoming commercial CD, but didn't source
the images ... which were taken from the web.
I think quite a few people still regard the web as copyright free.
The daft idea about asking permission to make web links has come from
misinterpretation of the tale of the Scottish newspaper that passed off another
web site's links as its own. So, I guess that guideline will not continue.
I just wanted to check with this group that there was not been some legal thing
I
had missed that affected web linking, like the Data Protection Act recently
affected staff e-mail lists.
Thanks for the dialogue so far .... all worth reading, as ever.
David King, Dudley College
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