So We are Kicking Around Copyright in the Office....

And I pulled up a bunch of links to prompt conversation.

Rich Jacobson made the cut.

So did Lenn Harley, of course.

A good place to start:

http://www.copyright.gov/

http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.pdf

Some information on PERMISSION, attribution, licensing of content, images, etc:

http://creativecommons.org/

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

Seems like a lot of folks reserve rights to site content, or specify how to gain permission and how to attribute content to the owner.

http://www.craigslist.org/about/terms.of.use

http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/help/terms_maps.html

http://www.inman.com/about/legal

http://realtytimes.com/rtpages/reprintrights.htm

http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/

http://www.facebook.com/#!/legal/copyright.php?howto_report

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights

http://www.vimeo.com/terms  Have to scroll down

http://www.youtube.com/t/copyright_education

http://ezinearticles.com/terms-of-service.html 

http://ezinearticles.com/faq/6/article-writing-components#question-20

http://activerain.com/blogsview/479085/-plagiarism-for-dummies-the-activerain-community-guidelines-re-visited
Note the point about the difference between "Reprint" and "Republish."

http://activerain.com/blogs/lennharley/tags/copyright

Some possible discussion topics:

Does anyone thoroughly understand copyright and infringement?
"Bueller?  Bueller"

If an associate can reuse others' content without proper permission or attribution, outside Fair Use, with little fear of being caught, does that qualify as "Doing the Right Thing?"

Is that conduct a behavior model we want to support in the community?

Gaining Permission and documentation of permission.

Attribution as required by the owner of the copyright of the content.

Fair Use