If anything constitutes "fair use" then this certainly does.
Copyright protects students from universities & colleges republishing
their work and making money off of it, not from making safety backups.
If there is concern that fair-use is insufficent, then I suggest the GNU
Free Documentation License as a way of implementing "copyleft" for
documents of nominal value:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
For discussion/chat contributions the issue is generally privacy, not
copyright.
(Although there is legal distinction between ownership of someone's
[public] utterances and writings, and owning a recording medium that
captured them; e.g. the text of MLK's "I have a dream" speech versus the
ABC recording of the same words. The first is public, the second is
copyrighted. Not being a lawyer I don't know how this relates to chat
rooms etc!)
-----Original Message-----
From: Virtual Learning Environments [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Spencer Jordan
Sent: 03 October 2002 08:29
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: VLEs and the law
Question: If students hold the copyright on
their materials (including contributions to
discussion lists and virtual chat rooms, online
work submissions), presumably a University/college
cannot routinely archive them without permission
from the student.
Is this the case and if so what are others doing to
comply?
Spencer
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Networked Learning Support Co-ordinator,
Room 3D42,
Bolland Library,
Frenchay Campus,
University of the West of England,
Coldharbour Lane,
Bristol,
BS16 1QY.
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Telephone: 0117 3443646
Fax: 0117 3442407
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