Intellectual Property/Copyright Issues Report

Marc Boots-Ebenfield, Bryn Mawr College

Other Committee or Task Force members:
Judy Shoaf, Maurizio Oliva

In the past year I updated the copyright release form and wrote a Journal article summarizing the Digital Media Copyright Act.

Plans for the coming year include:

• Database of copyright permissions. Lynne had proposed keeping a database of permission forms in FileMaker Pro, so that anyone who needs to could look up an article/author to see what level of permission s/he granted. I think it is a great idea and I could host the database here and set up access permissions for everyone who would need to would know.

• Copyright website

• Clarify who owns the IALL files kept on college/university servers

• Article on "Preparing an IP Policy for the Language Lab"

• Article on "Online Course Materials"- who owns them, what are the IP issues