Inside Higher Ed. has an interesting one on a move by Blackboard to integrate a “Copyright Permissions Building Block.” The author, Tarleton Gillespie, is skeptical of whether this “easy thingâ€? actually leads to the “right thing.â€? Making copyright clearance work smoothly overlooks the question of whether we should be seeking clearance at all — and what should instead be protected by the copyright exception we’ve come to know as “fair use.”
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