Our monthly "Key Instructional Contact" meeting had a guest speaker this month. Nancy Sims , from the University of Minnesota Library System spoke on Copyright in the K-12 Classroom. Group Meeting Notes can be found here . Sims is a lawyer and Librarian. Intellectual Property and Copyright Overview Intellectual property is a legal concept that means different things to different people. Patent lawyers deal with Intellectual property, but may not know about copyright. It deals with things that people own that are not physical objects. Patents -In the last year, people in small business have been in trouble for using a scanner on a network. Usually not an issue for schools. Trademarks -Usually not an issue in schools. Sims used a few logos as an example. Trademarks are about use in commerce, so most of the time, educational uses are ok. Implications of sponsorship could be an issue, but not an issue in student videos/teacher materials. Doug Johnson pointed out that t...
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