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Other possible tags: Roy_Orbison and Nude_Models During a recent demonstration of software for creating video clips from DVDs the subject of copyright naturally arose. I shared some notes on copyright that I took while watching a webinar that highlighted the court decision in the Georgi State U. case in May. This article fits in nicelywith this thread of a conversation in that it illustrates the touchy/controversial nature of what exactly is meant by the term "transformative."

A discussion of the meaning and practical interpretation by recent courts of the term "transformative." Folks in the fields of literature, music, and visual arts will find synopses of recent cases covering the specific application of the law with respect to their media. While not necessarily of direct importance to academicians in the classroom, these synopses should be of interest to anyone (faculty and students) who produce outside of the classroom.

Terrific podcast review of research about the importance of teacher-student relationships on student achievement.

An interesting application of blended learning theory to the advising process, describing ways in which a student's curation of an electronic portfolio could feed into (and benefit from) the advising process. From the International Journal of ePortfolio.

"A threshold concept is discipline-specific, focuses on understanding of the subject and … has the ability to transform learners' views of the content." What are the threshold concepts in your discipline, and how do you help students grapple with their power?

An overview of fair use presented by the Stanford (University) Copyright and Fair Use Center. This link is to the first page of a four page "spread" on fair use that covers: definitions; how to apply the four factors; summaries of significant cases; and a discussion of disagreements over what constitutes fair use and whether one is likely to get sued or not.

This episode of NPR's Planet Money presents a good case study in applying the 4-factor fair use test. The topic is web sites which present song lyrics. In specific, they look at a site called RapGenius, which makes a "transformative use" case by providing a site where users can annotate and explicate lyrics. (Despite the name, the site includes any genre of music as well as poetry, prose, and news.) RapGenius also has an education program for faculty who want to use it as a classroom tool for close reading exercises.

This is the VRA's statement on how fair use of still images can be applied in many instances in an educational setting. Such instances include use by teachers in lessons and by students in transforming a work for an assignment (among others).