York Ed Tech Council

February 1997

At issue is whether the material has been used to help create something new, or merely copied verbatim into another work. When taking portions of copyrighted work, ask yourself the following questions: Has the material you have taken from the original work been transformed by adding new expression or meaning?Was value added to the original by creating new information, new aesthetics, new insights and understandings?

Even a dog knows you can't erase something once it's flowed on the internet.

If reproductions of our best efforts are free, how can we keep going? To put it simply, how does one make money selling free copies?

When copies are super abundant, they become worthless. When copies are super abundant, stuff which can't be copied becomes scarce and valuable.