Student Feedback

Please add your feedback on the following:

• The scenarios/myths about copyright. Which ones do you think would be most important to address? Are there any myths about copyright that are prevalent among your peers (that you are aware of) that we have missed?
• Reasons to care about copyright. Which of the "reasons" we've brainstormed are most compelling to you? Can you think of other reasons to care?

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One of the myths that I seem to hear a lot is that if it doesn't say "copyrighted" or doesn't have the C symbol than you are free to use it. But my understanding is that something has to explicitly say "creative commons" for it to be used.

Thanks for sharing this, Gill! Agreed - this is a common myth and one that makes sense to address!

Other scenarios/myths/questions to consider:

- is violating copyright the same thing as academic plagiarism?

Reasons to care about copyright:

- violations affect professors and departments (its my understanding that departments receive a financial penalty)

- direct ways that the changes with Access Copyright affect students (i.e. cost of course packages, use of media in the classroom, professors may no longer be able to upload readings to Vista, etc)

- Many students are very engaged will the recent debate surrounding the SOPA law in the US and similar debates happening in Canada at the moment. I think the way to make this issue resonate with students is to invite them to discuss, debate and engage with the topic. If we use social media to ask questions like: "how do you feel about copyright at UBC?," "how should the University control access to copyrighted material?," "do you agree with UBC's stance towards Access Copyright?" I think we can generate strong student interest

Other resources:

- I think it would be valuable to include a guide on how to find creative commons content (for example: searching by licence type on google images or flickr) - I don't think many students are aware of the resources on copyright.ubc.ca (I wasn't until a few minutes ago)

Thanks for your comments, Nick. An image guide is in progress - which will have specifics for how to search/ cite an image licensed for re-use through creative commons.

It's our intention that we would incorporate and student guides to copyright issues on the learning commons website - we plan to develop the resources on the wiki so that they can be embedded (republished) in a variety of places - making it easier for students to find and access the resources.

We really appreciate your input and will be asking again as we progress in the development of this resource.