This flow chart surfaced through our Research and Data Management team who thought we’d get a kick out of it… YEP! We LOVE it! 🙂 Often people think that digitising a collection of material will be a wonderful way to give that collection the light of day and that is entirely true – As one […]
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Open source car designs, pirating music in the 50’s and streaming music today
Friday, June 27th, 2014
Gosh there are just so many things I keep seeing out there on the web that I want to draw your attention to! Here’s a few while I have a minute. My favourite I’ll save for you for next week 😉 Tesla Ditches Patents and Makes Inventions Open Source It’s always exciting to read […]
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So last week while we were talking about copyright and memes we thought we’d give you all some tips on how to protect your work in the digital wilderness. Piracy is rampant on the net, let’s be honest, and while you can never guarantee that your work won’t be lifted, there are things you can […]
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So, Astrid and I were talking about possible topics for today’s blog, and she suggested writing about this article: http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2013/05/07/copyright-memes-and-the-perils-of-viral-content/ Being about internet culture and gaming, I was especially interested in it, but I wasn’t really sure about what the take-away message was. Wil: So, Astrid, what can we take away from the article? Astrid: I […]
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Last week this article from The Age (18/01/13) caught our eye: ‘We’re being screwed’: photographers and designers vent over ‘stolen’ images The Copyright Act gives creators rights and while it’s tragic to hear of creators well and truly losing out with their work being used without their permission and without acknowledgement and compensation, it is […]
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Last week, we received a query about students posting lecture material on Facebook and then this week, a similar question was asked at one of our information sessions, so I thought it might make a good blog post. So the $64,000 question this week is…Can we (either staff or students) make teaching material available on […]