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 < Back to Podcasts/Recordings How Authors Can Navigate Successfully Through Copyright-Related Issues
Presented by C. Jeffrey Belliston, Scholarly Communications Librarian and Chair, Office of Digital Content Management, Brigham Young University; and Elsa Peterson, a freelance editor with 25 years of experience in permissions editing, picture research, and manuscript development
Are you entirely clear on what copyright is, how long it lasts, and what it does and doesn't protect? Do you know the difference between public domain and fair use? How do you decide whether something is fair use? Where do you draw the line between legitimate paraphrasing and plagiarism? If you need permission to use copyrighted material, how do you get it? When you submit an article to a journal publisher, what are your rights as author? What's the latest on the Digitial Millennium Copyright Act and related legislation? This teleconference will provide food for thought on these and other copyright-related issues. C. Jeffrey Belliston was appointed Scholarly Communications Librarian in the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University in September 2007. He also heads up the library’s Office of Digital Content Management. Previously, Belliston chaired the General Information Services department in the library and led the implementation of the Information Commons. Prior to becoming a librarian, he taught high school and was a Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Department of State. As Scholarly Communications Librarian for Brigham Young University, Belliston oversees the university's open access repository, BYU ScholarsArchive; the BYU installation of Open Journal Systems, which is used to help journals produced at BYU, or edited by BYU faculty, use a web-based workflow and publishing platform (including Open Access publishing); the university's effort to implement a digital preservation program. He also works with the Library and Scholarly Communications Advisory Council to develop programs aimed at educating campus faculty and students about relevant scholarly communication issues. Chief among these is open access. Elsa Peterson has been doing editorial work, primarily for the college textbook industry, since 1984. Although her academic background is in music -- she holds a B.A. with highest honors from the University of California at Riverside and an M.A. from Case Western Reserve University -- her versatile editing talents have led her into a wide variety of disciplines ranging from the arts and humanities to psychology, business and management, human physiology and nutrition, and foreign language. She was a senior developmental editor for psychology with McGraw-Hill Higher Education and has freelanced for virtually every leading textbook publisher in the U.S. In addition to manuscript development, she is experience in permissions editing, picture research, and writing content for textbook ancillaries. Based in Norwalk, CT, Elsa offers a discount to TAA members who use her editing services.
Please note: This recording has been made available for download for the convenience of TAA members. Only TAA members have permission to download TAA Teleconference recordings. Recordings may not be copied, shared with, or distributed to non-members. Teleconference Handouts: Contact information for Presenters: Elsa Peterson |
