Copyright Issues Online

The Internet has created a place where it is easy to find information and art to share. But what about copyright issues? Is everything free for the asking online? We'll show you software to protect your own site from being copied without your permission as well as discuss the latest issues involving newspapers and magazines re-printing their own articles online. [Episode #1716, First broadcast: 1/04/2000] David Kramer Copyright Lawyer David Kramer helps sort out some of the major copyright issues surrounding owning your own website. San Francisco Chronicle Higher Education Reporter Tanya Schevitz demonstrates a number of sites that offer university class notes online. Tanya shows us sites like Versity.com and StudentU.com and compares what they offer with the notes she took herself in the same classes. She also shows us Plagarism.org, a web service that is able to spot whether students have plagiarized online material for their essays. Adobe Photoshop Karen Gauthier, from Adobe, shows us how you can protect an image that you have created with a digital watermark in Adobe Photoshop. Karen explains why you might want a watermark, how you put a watermark in an image, how it changes (or doesn't change) the image and how you can use Photoshop to read the watermarks of images that you find online, allowing you to contact the copyright owner of the image if you want to use it yourself. MP3 for Dummies Author Andy Rathbone's latest Dummies book is all about MP3, so he's an ideal guide to take us through the copyright issues that are dogging this popular new audio format. He points us to popular MP3 web sites such as Winamp.com, Rollingstone.com, and MP3.com. Andy also explains how the music industry is fighting back by trying to introduce a new version of MP3 with some copy protections. http://archive.org/details/Copyrigh2000