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List of Case Studies:

Handing out scholarly articles

A teacher hands out an article from a magazine to his students, even though the magazine expressly forbid distribution.

scan, magazine, lms, handout, article

Publishing a presentation

A hosted teacher holds a presentation which is recorded by the Media Center. The presentation contains some copyright protected pictures.

publish, presentation, podcast, picture

Publishing student works online

Students produce design projects that will be published by the teacher on her personal website in order to promote the workshop.

promotion, project, students, website, workshop

Scanning from books

A teacher scans some chapters of a book, slightly modifies some illustrations and publishes everything on the LMS.

scan, lms, illustration, editing, book

Showing recorded film

On request of a teacher, the library records a film which is not commercially available and provides the registration as DVD and as streaming through VPN.

dvd, film, library, streaming, tv, video

Students wiki contributions

A teacher would like to publish a paper with the wiki contributions of his students about their working experience.

agreement, attribution, conference, paper, wiki

Subtitling videos

Students subtitle a video from a TV channel which is available on YouTube and upload the new modified version on YouTube again.

youtube, video, tv, translate, subtitle, dubbing

Using published illustrations in class

A teacher gives a cd-rom with a set of his illustrations to a colleague. The illustrations have been previously published on a book.

book, cd_rom, contract, illustration, publishing_house

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