Stephen E. Collins replied:
> Why not? Do you have the same restrictions for names and pictures
> published in any other media (newspaper, television) for any other
> events (school plays, athletic events, special awards)?
>
> Why not treat the Internet the same way you do any other publicity?
> The only difference would be that the actual risk to the child
> is much lower on the Internet.
I think that there are two separate and very different issues
involved here.
1) What do you do about use of photos that contain students.
2) How do you deal with intellectual material (artwork, writings,
html, etc.) written by students.
The suggestion that photos that contain students be treated
like other forms of publicity seems reasonable. Looking at
the forms recommended by Stephen E. Collins, I think they
may deal with this aspect well. (I also think that the form
deals fairly well with the question of permission for the
student to use the internet).
However, I would say that intellectual materials produced by students
are an entirely different issue. With the potential intellectual
property aspects (copyright ownership, etc.) I would say that a
more strongly worded "permission to publish" statement is needed.
In addition, have any schools developed copyright ownership
policies in cases like this?
I am dealing with these questions as part of an Illinois State
Board of Education funded project that has museums wokring
with classrooms in schools throughout the state. The
students will be producing WWW materials using museum resources.
The pages will be served museum computers (in the case of
my group, on servers at the Illinois State Museum and
Brookfield Zoo). In this case the questions are even more
problematic (because of multiple potential copyright holders).
Stephen E. Collins continued:
> Visit the Web66 Mustang site for sample permission-to-publish forms:
> <URL:http://mustang.coled.umn.edu/>
Rick
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