Hi, this is unit 7, copyright and your project.
Let me see what I can come up with as I give you some comments about copyright
And so
Of course the place to begin this week is with Rosenzweig's textbook chapter, chapter 7 owning the past which is really an outstanding overview of the history of copyright 
and how copyright law has changed in the last  to become more and more protective of authors' rights  
to profit from their work.
And this, of course, has made it much more difficult for the general public 
to benefit from public domain works, works which have entered the public domain.
and are now free to be used by the general public.
And so I have a couple of sites there that you can look at which are kind of the legalistic view of copyright
and what copyright involves.
And then
you can also look
why is my screen so big here?
Let's get back to this.
All right, so here are my notes for copyright.
And I have some really important websites that you need to look at  for this week, especially The Fairy Use tale, which is a magnificent Youtube video.
done using Disney clips to talk about what copyright has done.
and
what I'd like to take away from this week is that
copyright restrictions are a real problem for historians.
especially if you are doing history from 1945 to the present.
Most
media
from that period
magazines, newspapers, images, video
is really off limits if you are going to try and do anything on the web because all of that stuff is protected by copyright.
And so, for example,if you're doing some sort of web project
on the 1960s and
now most of the music of the 1960s is under copyright protection; most of the imagery of the 60s is under copyright protection.
So it's really hard to do anything meaningful on the web because of those restrictions.
I try and be as broadly interpretative of fair use and the ability of historians,scholars to use materials for educational purposes.
What I'm always trying to be careful about 
is to
cite and credit any works that I use
when I'm
creating something on the web, and so for example I have this image that I've used. It's not one of my images. It's somebody else's image.
But I do credit the author.
Usually I find these images on Flickr or other public
picture and photo sites.
And one of the things that I've found out over time is that a lot of times
these images actually disappear
And so, these people who took the pictures; they might take it down from that public site, and so at some point in time this link might get broken and then I'll just have
the photographer's there with the picture but I won't have the link.
Also
when I use--this isn't a good example--this one here,
my site on Tolstoi and
and history,
sometimes I will use a long
prose excerpt
I always cite the source of the prose excerpt. So here you can see the links.
And these links do disappear over time too, and so
what then I'll do is I'll put
accessed link and the the link http and accessed on such and such a date.
So, copyright, there's two important things to remember about copyright.
Almost all the materials
from 1923 to the present
that have been produced in the twentieth century and now the twenty-first century are under some sort of copyright restrictions.
Now, the exceptions are materials before 1923
There is also exceptions to certain European countries, particularly those of the Eastern bloc, which did not ratify
international copyright restrictions, treaties until 1970 or 1971.
And so most of the materials, for example, produced in the Soviet Union before 1970 enjoy no copyright
restrictions. Not that that really helps you, but that's something to know.
The other thing about copyright restrictions is that not every thing that was published remained under copyright
limits.
For some published works copyright
has expired.
Sometimes it's a little difficult to figure out
the case of that.
But
it's (the information) is out there.
The other thing that is a little bit more problematic
is the case, for example, of newspapers
that were published
but have since
gone bankrupt and ceased publishing.
And so whether those materials should still be considered under copyright
restrictions; they probably are
but I'm guessing that they might not be too, but I'm probably wrong on that.
So that's the number one thing about copyright, again, 
almost everything in the twentieth century is under copyright restrictions
and almost universally all materials from 1945 to the present are under some sort of copyright limitations on use.
But, on the other hand, since we're operating in an educational environment; we're not operating in a for-profit mode.
We are
using just pieces of materials with fair use
guidelines
I think that you can kind of get away with the use of a lot of materials on the web.
But you're still going to have problems, particularly with photographs and videos.
And one of the things, let me see if I can find it here, that's a nice picture of an old French newspaper from the early twentieth century
There's Gilgamesh.
Copyright.
I think that it was this one here.
You want to read about
the copyright case dealing with Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech
which is not in the public domain any longer
For a while it was, but it's not an more.
So, that's copyright. Copyright is a problem when you're working on digital materials,
and digital publishing on the web.
You can kind of work around it, but it's a real problem for historians of
the post-modern world.
Thanks!
