Copyright & Legal Issues

Staying Legal: A Guide to Copyright and Trademark Use

This useful tool, a soft-cover book and an audio CD-ROM, provides guidance to learning and workplace performance professionals on most questions concerning copyright and trademark law.
ASTD Press Book 2007

Trend: Content Copyright, the Commons, and the C Generation

This article discusses the current trends in content copyright, creative copyright (CC), in which the owner authorizes sharing certain aspects of their work. CC seems to fall in between the established copyright practices and open source sharing. The implications for sharing learning objects and other learning and training tools are covered. The article walks the reader through the evolution of various practices and theories that are impacting copyright and references the Induce Act which was introduced in the Senate (June 2004).
Learning Circuits, v5 n8
August 2004