Copyright...

What experiences have you had in dealing with copyright issues in your work as an educator?
To be honest it's not something I've had an awful lot to do with, and I tend to avoid copyright issues as much as possible.

What are the copyright guidelines and protocols in place in your institution, in relation to e- learning?
Interestingly I coudn't find a specific reference to copyright within the ADHB intranet. Of course, within the UoA there is the document which has been provided as part of the course pack. Even though surveys occur, I wonder what the differences would be between the surveys and an unnotified audit in some courses.

Do these differ from those you have read about in the course? Do you think these will change over the next decade or so?
It seems to me that there probably won't be a huge change in law and institutional rules. The socialist inside me would like to think that more 'freely available' resources would prevail. For example, the IVIMEDS (http://www.ivimeds.org/) learning objects project in medicine, or its equivalent in dentistry(IVIDENT) and nursing (IVINURS http://www.ivinurs.org/), o r perhaps the open source peer-reviewed medical journals (http://medicine.plosjournals.org).

What copyright issues do you anticipate in relation to resources that you would like to use for your current e- learning project?
Ideally I'd like to focus on creating or using open learning objects with licenses such as creative commons (http://creativecommons.org/ - which a few years ago I thought was just a small open source project which would be missed by most of the world, but now...)- interestingly there hasn't been a New Zealand specific port of the generic license developed- that I can find.