1) Great short videos from Rutgers.

• Video - funny animation - what is plagiarism
• video - funny animation - Plagiarism real life examples
• video - funny animation - anti plagiarism gameshow

2) Comic book/ graphic novel on fair use - film focus but equally relevant to our discussion.  Download copy to smartphone/ ipad/ kindle/ etc. here;  (also in easily down loadable PDF). 

3)Teach act  - brief summary published by gov.

4) Must read links

• http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/29/copyright-best-pract.html
• http://oedb.org/library/features/8-astonishing-stats-on-academic-cheating
• http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/23/lse-economists-file-1.html 
• http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/11/17/cheating 
• http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/01/copyright-fair-use-a.html 
• http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/ 
• http://chillingeffects.org/fairuse/ 
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5) Questions to answer

• What are the dangers of overzealous enforcement of plagiarism or punishment for violations of copyright?
• Why is this important? Who really cares and why?
• What makes us question the conclusions of any of arguments re: plagiarism? 

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