The overall intent of copyright laws has been to maximize the public good of intellectual creations. Digital technologies, however, threaten to unbalance old legal equations.
Users can copy, reproduce and redistribute works with a few keystrokes.
All administrators, faculty and students in higher education should understand existing and emerging copyright laws. And they should be studied by users of copyrighted materials as well as by authors of new digital content. We also include sites that provide information on institutional IPR models and current legislation. We review a limited number of high-quality sites. The CMC is one of the most important higher education destinations for information on copyright and academia.