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2 Wednesday, November 17, aoio | Thb Red * Buck Bloggers question copyright issues Ownership scrutinized 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. 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SAME DAY SERVICE! •V-M ■f>;i XI * T >;f • V;./, ./,] v'f j / • • frisk 1 ’■Bp' \ , fjjfe j j ' * ’v*r v jrjl *; MICHAEL HAltltlS | Tm Rio * Black ▲ 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 The Daily Puzzle 2 3 ■■■p |‘ [7 |s ■K““Tio |*t |l? 1111 . m *--■ 111 ■Kr - 3- * 27 n ““ 30 |3l 32 33 ~ ~ ~~ | ■Ke ~ """" finf 43 ’ p * v: ■■pT - * wS3 ->4 “ Ips’- • * ~ 11/17/10 61 Jagged 62 City in Nevada 63 Egyptian canal 64 Adjust again 65 Miniature DOWN 1 inquire 2 Too smooth 3 Greasy 4 Burning 5 Cessna or i 6 Remain undecided 7 Bridal veil material 8 Endless time 9 Corpses 10 Burden ' 11 Piece of Greek Orthodox art 12 In cam 14 Own 21 Magazine title 25 Pack animal 26 "Beat iff* 27 Assigned 28 Underworld 29 Backbone had around 120. 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 performer 41 Father, Who art m. . ." 42 Horae shel ter 44 Gemstone 45 Oval pill form 47 Wipeout 48 Matterhorn's range 49 In _ of; as i 30 Angel food 31 Last Greek letter 32 _ to; Cite 33 In a crafty way 36 BBQ rod 38 Older, never married lady 39 Male ballet t 9 :■ 8 I NEWS to 60, that would definitely 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. yOQUM Only I Wixt ttvidt •of Lr.o/c-n Yoqij'rt Shop Check Out Our New Rotating Flavors! _ ‘Mptim Follow us on Fdcebook & Twitter to stay up to date! 198 College Avenue 706 354 8351 Sun \X/ed 1 1 JO.tm 1 Ipm Thur-Sat 1 I 30am I 2am y° Tfc® Red & Black t?>iM now ft donation Toys For Tots! Accepting New. 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TiMi 4:ft :;(HIU CUTS: Staff members critical for campus ► From Fag* 1 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. jg; 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 CORRECTIONS The Red & Black is committed to journal istic excellence and providing the most accurate news possi ble. Contact us if you see an error ; ana we will do our best to correct it. Editor-in-Chief: Daniel Burnett (706) 433-3027 edltor@randb.com Managing Editor Carey O’Neil (706)433-3026 1 me frirandb.com