Just launched: The updated, and moved, Copyright Crash Course
I began to revise the Copyright Crash Course over the summer in preparation for moving it from the University of Texas System servers, where I worked in the Office of General Counsel for 15 years, to the University of Texas at Austin Libraries servers this fall. Along the way, I acquired a wonderful new design, thanks to the Libraries’ Matthew Villalobos, and a new emphasis, complements of my new job here at the Libraries, with its focus on scholarly communication.
The Crash Course includes 4 major topic areas: Own manage share, offering information about rights, responsibilities and opportunities in copyright ownership; Building on others’ creative expression, addressing the issues involved when we use others’ works in the process of creating our own works, either directly, or indirectly as when we use them in teaching; Copyright in the library, detailing the special rights belonging to our libraries under the Copyright Act; and University administrative interests in copyright, where I write about special concerns at administrative levels (policy, risk management, scholarly communication).
The site is as ready as it will likely ever be, though there are little tweaky things I will continue to work on through the end of fall semester. Nevertheless, it is definitely time to launch, so I invite you to come visit and let me know what you think.
The old site will remain up for a short time, after which the pages I have moved to the new address will be replaced by 404s that indicate the new site’s url.
