[LM_NET] TARGET: Webquests and Intellectual Property

[Barbara Braxton <barbara@IIMETRO.COM.AU>]

I am currently marking some uni papers  that focus on the use of webquests and time 
and again, I am
getting quotes from various sources that are suggesting that to save time in 
developing an original
webquest, teachers should adapt one that already exists in order to meet their 
needs. 

Every time I read this I cringe because surely such an adaptation would be an 
infringement of
intellectual property.  Personally, I would be very ticked off if I spent hours 
developing a
webquest - and I mean one in the true meaning of the concept,  not a low-level 
online
information-gathering exercise - and then found someone "adapted" it without 
permission.

What do you think?  Am I being pedantic, or mean and miserable?  I am really 
interested in your
views because this IP issue is important to me.
Barbara

Barbara Braxton
Teacher Librarian
PALMERSTON ACT 2913
AUSTRALIA

E. barbara@iimetro.com.au
"Together we learn from each other." 

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