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February 8, 2010
There's Visual Literacy and there's Legal Literacy. And you'd think a building full of lawyers would be legally literate.
In producing faux openness (look, we're all social media and we post photos!) the White House forgot that "no copyright for pictures produced by federal employees in the line of work" clause, didn't they? And they didn't HAVE to publish on Flickr!
Now they're scrambling - and it probably won't work.
I really should blog about the great Visual Literacy seminar our Library and NITLE put on right before classes started - I've been bogged down! Copyright and such were certainly topics. In fact, I set up a private Tumblr blog just this morning for my Islamic Art & Architecture students. Not only do I want this to be a comfortable class environment (cough cough) but I want it to be unsearchable when we start talking about images of the Prophet Muhammad.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at February 8, 2010 8:33 AM