Copyright and Fair Use
this week, i have been working on updating my unit on copyright and fair use in education. i had a lesson that i thought was a bit dry, so i wanted something that was more interesting. i came across a comic book on copyright and fair use. this is made at Duke University (law school). i am not sure i can tell who the target audience would be . . . and, i doubt i use it in my own classes. that being said, someone put in a lot of hours to create this thing. the link is worth visiting just to play with the Flash version of the comic. you can physically turn pages with your mouse and you can use a zoom tool to get close-ups, etc.
personally, i think comic books are a poor choice of information dissemination for the masses, but perhaps there is an audience who will appreciate this. i found myself needing to use the zoom feature too much. i wish i could have just increased the size of the whole file to better fit on my larger display. oh well. it’s hard to complain about free, eh?