Issues in Publishing/Journalism

withCommunity Norms/Ethicsin Copyright and Fair Use

Mary HodderMary@hodder.org@maryhodderNapsterization.org/storiesDabble.com

Science Literacy Training

• Submissions, Use and Reuse

• Copyright / Digital Copyright

• Creative Commons

• Attention, Links, Buzz, Ethics, Community Practices

Issues With Publishing and Journalism

Submissions are easy

• TOUs• Do user’s own their work• Do you own a copy• What if they want to delete?• How do you manage authenticity?• What if something is stolen?

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Use and Reuse

• Copyrighted?• Fair Use?• Creative Commons?

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Questions to ask yourself:

Copyright

• Copyright is a contract between creators and public

• Fair Use is an exception• Rethink copyright for digital world

• right to copy• right to distribute

Richness of Media

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Rich Media

Perception of value

Digital Copyright• Open

Information• Open Source• Open Data• Open

Community• Open Publishing

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• Robots.txt• SourceForge• APIs / RSS• YASNs• Blogs,

Twitter, Online News, User Creative

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Robots.txt

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Everyone Does It

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Community and

Social Norms

Fair Use

• Parody• Criticism• Commentary• Educational /

Scholarship• News reporting

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• The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;

• The nature of the copyrighted work;• The amount and substantiality of

the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and,

• The effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

HOW: THE FOUR POINT TESTFOR WHAT:

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• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1kqqMXWEFs 13

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16by Matt @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/_matt/3465930105/

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Examples

• Esme Vos on Mapplr.com used a flickr photo, which GQ asked to reuse

• Food Network• Hong Kong

Magazine wanted my photo of Old London Stock

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PARTNERSAddgeneBioMed CentralCAMBIAHindawiiBridgeMIT Open Courseware (”OCW”)Public Library of ScienceRice ConnexionsThe Health Commons

Trade: Attention, Links, Buzz, Credibility, Collaboration

• Linking practices and Value

• Collaboration• Sharing Whuffie• Ethics• Implied Credibility

Questions?

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