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Georgia Harper is one of my favorite people in the world. For years she has guided students and faculty of the University of Texas (that's National Champion University of Texas to you) through the perils of copyright and fair use through her work in the general counsel's office. Now she is using her new blog, Lifelong learning: The third degree to help her construct a winning argument about fair use of digital materials through electronic course management systems like Blackboard.

Please check out her posts and give feedback.

... I've been working on, struggling with, a paper on the fair use argument for electronic reserves and digital distribution of reading materials (and other materials) in course management systems like Blackboard. I want to experiment with collaborative authoring in a scholarly context, so I'm going to work with the text here, inviting comments and suggestions. I've already solicited comments privately, as is the norm in academe, but I'm still concerned about the argument, the reasoning, the factual predicates, and most of all, the conclusion I reach. So if it's not working, what better opportunity to try a new approach. Further, like other authors today, I am excited about the possibilities in collaborative authoring, and networked texts. I want to see how it works. What better way? ...