The fact is that technology is racing far faster than the law s slow wheels of bureaucracy can take us. So we really have to take our guidance from case laws that deal with other types of student activities. When dealing with student work online, I think there are two basic issues to keep in mind. One is certainly privacy. Privacy of students putting their likeness up on the Internet.
Parents have concerns for their children's privacy and safety concerns.
The second is copyright, frankly. In the workplace, a piece of signed work is the property of the employer, but the same isn't really true in schools. A student's work will remain with that student. I often see situations in which a school district wants to publish the student newspaper online, but it wants to significantly alter some of the stories that may be controversial or significantly edit a student's work. A school certainly has the right to publish a school-sponsored paper online.