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Bloggers
question
copyright
issues
Ownership
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By KATIE VALENTINE
The Red & Black
Copyright infringement
may not be the first thing
on students’ minds when
they post on their blogs,
but they might need to be
more cautious with their
work in the fiiture.
Last month, according
to Time magazine, a publi
cation called Cooks Source
magazine published a
story about apple pie that
a food blogger named
Monica Gaudio had post
ed on her blog.
Cooks Source credited
Gaudio in the byline, but
did not ask her permission
to publish the work. When
Gaudio wrote to the publi
cation, Cooks Source’s
editor Judith Griggs told
Gaudio the Internet was
“public domain” and she
should be happy Cooks
Source edited and pub
lished her work free of
charge.
William Lee, a professor
of mass communication
law, disagrees with Griggs'
claims that the Internet is
public domain and that
publications have the right
to publish another per
son’s work without per
mission.
“This is a clear-cut
copyright violation,” he
said. “The editor of Cooks
Source is completely out
to lunch in her response.”
Lee said even if the
magazine credited Gaudio
as the author of the story,
her story’s copyright was
still violated.
As soon as work is fixed
in a tangible medium
when it is written, posted
to a blog or captured in a
picture it becomes copy
righted.
“That’s sort of like tell
ing people, 'This crack
came from Ed.’ Well, big
deal. It's still illegal to have
that crack,” Lee said.
Tb prevent a situation
similar to Gaudio’s, Lee
said students should regis
ter their work with the U.S.
Copyright Office and post
copyright notices on the
work they publish on their
blog.
Though the notice is
not necessary for a work
to be copyrighted, it is
helpful to warn potential
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▲ Junior Melissa Buckman writes and maintains the bios ‘Screw You,
I’m Hilarious.’ She said she has considered copyright issues online.
violators that the work is
copyrighted.
“Unfortunately, I think
students have been trained
in many bad ways about
copyright, because they
grew up with Napster and
other forms of illegal file
sharing,” Lee said. “The
ease of duplication doesn’t
eliminate the need to be
vigilant in protecting your
copyrights and to respect
the copyrights of others.”
Melissa Buckman, a
junior from Alpharetta,
has had her blog, “Screw
You, I'm Hilarious,” since
last January. The blog has
developed a strong reader
ship, and in May was fea
tured on stumbleupon.
com, which Buckman said
caused an extra several
thousand people to view
her blog.
“It was a pretty dinky
little blog for the first four
months, and then that
happened, and it got
almost 1,000 views in one
day,” she said.
On a normal day,
Buckman said her blog
has between 30 and 60
views, and lately, she has
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She said she has
thought about copyright
issues regarding her blog
before, because her mom
writes a monthly opinions
column for the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution.
Buckman has talked to
her mom about copyright
infringement because her
mom has had her work
posted and discussed on
other websites.
“She has expressed
concern for me that if I
keep doing what I’m doing,
the same type of thing will
happen,” Buckman said.
Buckman said right
now she wouldn’t consider
registering the work on
her blog and posting a
copyright notice, because
her blog does not have a
large enough readership
for her to consider copy
right infringement a
threat.
“I just don’t think that
it’s got enough attention
for me to really consider it
at risk,” she said. “In a
hypothetical situation,
where I’m getting 60,000
views per day as opposed
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be something I would look
into.”
Randall Bourquin, a
senior from Suwanee, said
he doesn’t think posting a
copyright notice on his
blog is necessary, since he
doesn’t blog professionally.
Bourquin's blog, “Sorry
For Staring," is a compila
tion of humorous events
he witnesses throughout
the day.
“I never really consid
ered it,” he said. “It seems
very strange to me that
someone would steal con
tent off a blog for another
outlet.”
Bourquin said he would
consider posting a copy
right notice on his blog if
he posted something that
he worked extensively on
and was worried that
someone might take it
without his permission.
“In the future if I wrpte
something that was kind
of universal in nature, and
thought it could be taken
and distributed widely, I
guess I would copyright
that, in light of recent
events,” he said.
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In the College of
Agricultural and
Environmental Sciences
which originally was slated
to lose 311 jobs the
administration did all it
could to keep employees.
“Most faculty positions
that have been lost were
mainly through retirement,
but we’ve had a couple
people leave for taking
other Jobs, one or two peo
ple leaving for not getting
tenure all of these posi
tions have been held open,”
said Scott Angle, CAES
dean. “They may or
may not be filled in
the future ... but
just because a posi
tion was vacant
doesn’t mean we’ll
fill it in the exact
same area.”
Angle’s senti
ments echo many of
those throughout
campus.
“We have a cou-
ple of positions that are
vacant right now but these
are not a result of the bud
get reductions,” said
Rodney Bennett, vice pres
ident for student affairs,
whose units could have
lost 12 positions. “I think
any time you’re going
through a budget situation
you should look at vacant
positions. I’m not saying
we would leave them
vacant but I would ask,
•What would the impact be
if these positions weren’t
filled?’”
Burgess said the limited
ability of departments to
hire faculty and staff has
reached a crucial point.
“What the president has
tried to project is we’ve
reached a critical mini
mum level of faculty,” he
said. “The president said.
‘We’ve kind of gone too far
and we need to start delib
erately looking at how we
can hire more faculty.’”
Burgess said the hiring
initiatives Adams and the
administration began in
August are helping, but in
some aspects of their Jobs,
employees are suffering.
“What it’s caused is a
general decline in respon
sibilities of procurement
actions. We buy hundreds
of things on this campus
and buying things is very
regulated," Burgess said.
“It’s like throwing sand
into the gears of a machine
it still works, but it
doesn’t do it that quick.”
He said another way
faculty feel the effects of
the budget cuts involves
the way they do their jobs.
With so many , staff posi
tions being gone, Burgess
said professors are spend-
CRIME NOTEBOOK
Bartenders cited for sale
of alcohol to minor
Three individuals were
charged with unlawful sale
of an alcoholic beverage to
a minor during a series of
enforcement checks using
Athens-Clarke County
underage operatives,
according to Athens-
Clarke County police
reports.
The operatives used
their actual IDs.
Sheyna Krystal
Hopkins, 26, was cited
after selling alcohol to
underage operatives at
Country Rock at around
10 p.m. on Nov. 11, accord
ing to police reports.
On Nov. 13, student
Abigail Rose Murphy. 18,
was cited alter selling
Corona beer to underage
operatives while bartend
ing at Reds Tavern.
Kyle Veitch, 26, was also
cited while bartending at
Roadhouse bar, according
to police reports.
ing more time on adminis
trative tasks, which eats
into them being able to do
what the public feels is
their actual responsibility.
Units that report direct
ly to the President’s Office
could have lost seven posi
tions, according to the
FYll proposed budget,
but Adams said he only
knows of four positions
that remain open those
were the results of people
leaving the system.
“That’s how we’ve lived
for the past two years,” he
said. “I doubt there is a
department here that does
not have some story
like that.”
The cuts that hurt
David Lee, vice
president for
research, and the
units under his lead
ership could have
lost 20 positions if
the proposed cuts
had gone through.
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BURGESS
“I think we were talking
about eliminating the
Technology Transfer
Operations, which is where
most of those 20 positions
were located,” he said,
adding this was one of the
top such offices in the
nation.
Lee said this depart
ment was not eliminated,
but a smaller graphics
office was. One employee
from this office was re
assigned to the informa
tion technology depart
ment, and another left.
This office, however, was
targeted to be cut before
FYll.
He said he doesn’t want
to think about what hap
pens if the budget in FYI 2
is worse.
“There is no fat left,” he
said. “We’ll have to cut
those programs further
and possibly consider clos
ing more offices. We really
do not have anything that
we consider a real luxury
... If we’re forced to [cut
the Technology Transfer
Operations], that’s a real
negative to the University
and it would take us a long
time to recover from that.”
Adams said he did not
want to speculate on the
FYI 2 budget because of
many unknown variables,
but said his top priorities
included protecting faculty
and staff from layoffs.
“We have to have lab
people, we have to have
people who keep up with
chemicals, we have to have
police officers,” Adams
said. “If we fired all of the
staff members, it probably
wouldn’t solve all of our
problems. And clearly we
have to have staff people.”
ONLINE
Police Documents
Student charged with
financial transaction card
fraud
A warrant was released
Monday for a University
student connected to a
financial card transaction
fraud, according to a
University Police report.
The warrant was issued
for University student
Patrick Allen Robbins,
who is charged with finan
cial card transaction
fraud.
The charge is connect
ed to a report filed Nov. 10
by a student who reported
that on Oct. 19 her credit
card number was used to
make a purchase worth
$97 at the University
Health Center, according
to the report.
—Compiled by
Tiffany Stevens
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