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<div>Hello,</div>
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<div>Thought I'd pass along the following minutes from the most recent
meeting of the School of Engineering's Communicators group (similar to
Editors' Club, but composed of communicators only from the School of
Engineering).</div>
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<div>Figured that Editors' Club members would also be interested in
the meetings topic--What You Should Know About Intellectual Property
Issues--since it impacts our work on the web.</div>
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<div>See you next Monday, February 23, for the next meeting of
Editors' Club (12-1 in 11-400).</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
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<div>Elizabeth</div>
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<div>P.S. The SOE Communicators group is led by Catherine Avril, SOE
director of communications. Many thanks to Catherine and her colleague
Lauren Clark for these minutes!</div>
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Elizabeth A. Thomson<br>
Assistant Director, Science & Engineering News<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
News Office, Room 11-400<br>
77 Massachusetts Ave.<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307<br>
617-258-5402 (ph); 617-258-8762 (fax)<br>
<thomson@mit.edu><br>
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<http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/www></div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Hi Everybody,<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Our last session, "What You Should
Know About Intellectual Property Issues," was chock full of
indispensable advice for anyone who creates, maintains, or oversees
web sites at MIT. Many thanks to Elizabeth Carlson of the MIT Office
of Intellectual Property Counsel for her presentation, and
communicator Bill Litant for setting up the session.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>** COMINGS AND GOINGS
**</b></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>We added a new member to the group this
month: Chris Gouldstone, the Aero & Astro Department liaison to
OpenCourseWare. Welcome, Chris! We say good-bye and good luck to
Yueh-Ping Lim of LIDS (Laboratory for Information and Decision
Systems), who is returning to her native Singapore in mid-March.
Unfortunately, we're also losing a colleague, LFM/SDM Communications
Specialist Monica Nakamine, due to a layoff. If anyone hears of any
opportunities for Monica after her departure date on March 12, email
her at latoboston@yahoo.com. Best of luck to you, Monica.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><b>** PRESENTATION **</b></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Elizabeth discussed the myriad legal
issues regarding materials placed on MIT servers, linking to others'
sites, photo releases for people whose pictures we use, and other
things we ought to know -- BEFORE someone gets into trouble.
Elizabeth's key message was "assume everything on the web is
copyrighted." You therefore need to find out whether you're
violating ownership of a photo, an article, or even a mode of
navigation before you incorporate it into your site.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Moreover, these issues need to be
considered early on, while your web site is in the development stages.
For instance, before you include links to pdf files of 10 years' worth
of a professor's publications, you -- and the professor -- need to
find out whether he/she owns the rights to those publications. Often
it is the journal in which the paper originally appeared that owns the
rights, in which case the professor must get permission to publish the
paper on his/her own web site.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>If you can't be sure whether the content
on your site abides by copyright law, the best thing to do is contact
Elizabeth's office (http://web.mit.edu/ipcounsel/) or her directly
(ecarlson@mit.edu or 8-7135). If you'd like a copy of
Elizabeth's PowerPoint presentation, email Lauren Clark at
ljclark@mit.edu.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Elizabeth also urged the communicators to
look at MIT Information Systems' web page on Policies, Rules, and
Guidelines for Information Technology at MIT
(http://web.mit.edu/ipcounsel/), in particular the section on
copyright (http://web.mit.edu/copyright/).</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Stay tuned for information about the next
communicators' session, in March.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Cheers,</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>-- Catherine & Lauren</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">--<br>
Here are the names of those currently on the <soe-comm@mit.edu>
list:</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font color="#000000">Catherine Avril,
Angela Copyak, Abe Dane, Allie Lopez-Cuadra, Becky Schneck, Doris
Elsemiller, Dee Moore, John Desforge, David Game, Deb Houben, Roni
Dudley-Cowans, David Burke, Eve Downing, Franklin Hadley, Eileen
Ng-Ghavidel, Geoff Groesbeck, Greg Sands, Alina Haverty, Irene Miller,
Doris Inslee, Isadora Deese, Jean Marie De Jordy, Jason Pring, Julita
Kussmaul, Jordana Riley, Jason Pring, Jennifer Pell Gordon, Kay
Walsh, Kristin Joyce, Kate Melvin, Kate Megquier, Kathleen Sullivan,
Krista Van Guilder, Laurie Everett, Debbie Levey, Lisa Falco, Lauren
Clark, Deborah Liverman, Lois Slavin, Marsha Sanders, Mark Colvin,
Melissa Makofske, Michael Lewy, Monica Nakamine, Nicole Blizek, Nancy
DuVergne Smith, Nils Nordal, Karl Ozaeta, Patsy Sampson, P. Katrina
Norman, Roz Puleo, Patricia Reilly, Rachel Kemper, Sara Goplin, Scott
Campbell, Simone Sandy, Susan MacPhee, Mara Karapetian, Nancy
Stauffer, Anthony St. George, Terry Hill, Elizabeth Thomson, Toni
Pommet, Bill Litant, Yueh-Ping Lim, Krisztina Holly [If you
would like to have your name added or removed, please send me an email
at <cavril@mit.edu> School of Engineering only,
please.]</font></blockquote>
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