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Item Attitudes About 'Fair Use' and Content Sharing in Social Media Applications(ACM, 2017-02) Faklaris, Cori; Hook, Sara Anne; Human-Centered Computing, School of Informatics and ComputingThe shift to Social Networking Services (SNSs) and mobile messaging apps such as Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat that rely on User-Generated Content (UGC) has challenged notions of fair use under U.S. copyright law. It remains unclear what understandings are common among these app users regarding legal and ethical norms in reusing artistic, journalistic and other types of content outside of online remixer spaces. Our online survey of N=106 users of N=48 SNS platforms and apps measured attitudes regarding fair use under U.S. copyright law and attribution for work that is shared. Participants reported a high level of agreement with more-restrictive conditions for content publishing and reuse. However, analyses of ratings and responses to open-ended questions reveal tension between issues of intellectual integrity and intellectual property.Item But I'm a Creator/Inventor/Coding, Not a Lawyer: What to Know about Intellectual Property Law, Contracts and More(2016-10-21) Hook, Sara Anne; Faklaris, CoriWhat you don’t know can hurt you. This mini-session will offer tips to minimize the chance of being taken advantage of in the workplace or when sharing or creating work with others. Topics include contracts, licensing and intellectual property law (patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets and branding), along with special issues related to freelancing and hackathons. Learn how to use the law to protect yourself, your work and your reputation and avoid infringing on the rights of others. Because the law related to technology is changing so fast, even a more seasoned professional will find the session to be helpful. Participants will gain confidence in and knowledge of how to deal with situations involving legal issues. They will know what to look for when asked to sign a variety of documents covering their creative work. They will also be able to discern when to contact a lawyer and what kinds of credentials to look for when selecting a lawyer.Item Can virtual reality be a ‘killer app’ for journalists to tell great stories?(Indianapolis Business Journal, 2015-05-30) Faklaris, CoriThe author discusses the application of virtual reality in mass media industry and notes its use in storytelling technique for journalism. Written for IBJ's first-ever Innovation issue. A distillation of research done as part of studies in IUPUI's Media Arts and Science master's degree program.Item Case Delays and Insufficient Client Communications(2015) Hook, Sara Anne; Faklaris, CoriReal-life legal practice doesn't fit neatly into the bounds of legal ethics that we all learned in law school. There are always questions and pitfalls that you'll need to figure out to make certain you're in compliance today. This seminar compiles the toughest current challenges attorneys face in protecting their professional reputations. Our experienced attorney faculty will help you get the tools you need to do the right thing without fear of disciplinary action or litigation. •Clarify allowable and prohibited conduct in social media. •Discover and avoid hidden conflicts of interest. •Find out how to properly handle case delays. •Prepare for the ethical challenges a virtual law office presents. •Protect client confidentiality in online communications and in data storage.Item Find It Free and Fast on the Net: Strategies for Legal Research on the Web(2015) Hook, Sara Anne; Faklaris, CoriThe way we use the internet today is leagues away from how it was being used even five years ago. In order to keep the pace, you need streamlined research skills that will make the internet an asset rather than a liability for your firm. How do your skills stack up? Do you know the best, most efficient ways to get what you need? At this informative seminar, we can show you how to harness the internet as an excellent resource. •Use our quick browser tricks to scan web pages and find relevant information fast. •Uncover legal research shortcuts by identifying free legal portals and meta sites. •Locate pages that "aren't" there anymore using the invisible web. •Avoid an unnecessary trip to the library - get statutes, bills, regulations and legislative history online. •Find anything from vital statistics to professional licenses - we'll show you where to look. •Cut your document preparation time dramatically by referring to sample briefs, motions and settlements you can obtain from the internet. •Know how to use the web to find phone numbers and addresses of missing people. •Understand ethical procedures when using social media online.Item If You Are Going to Skydive, You Need a Parachute: Navigating the World of Higher Education as an Adult/Returning Student(2016-10-01) Hook, Sara Anne; Faklaris, CoriYou have reached that point in your life where a change is needed. Perhaps you have been contemplating an upgrade to your skill set, a new degree or certificate, additional credentials or even a completely new career. The world of higher education has changed significantly even in the last few years and there are many more options for adult/returning students. Hybrid and online degrees and courses offer a particularly flexible alternative for those with jobs and family responsibilities or who are in rural areas not served by large universities. Savvy universities now recognize that women students want a sense of community in their courses and are looking for informal learning spaces, mentoring and support services as well as the opportunity to apply their skills and talents towards activities that contribute to the betterment of society as well as to increasing their incomes. This special session at InWIC is designed to offer insights, practical tips and encouragement to anyone who is thinking about – or in the process of – pursing additional education. The co-presenters will offer their personal experiences in navigating the financial, logistical and emotional/psychological issues involved in being an adult/returning student and will provide a number of useful resources for addressing these issues. The session will include time for participants to share their own experiences and to form a network for support in the future. Success is within your grasp, but in order to have smooth sailing, enjoy the view on the way down and not crash to the ground, you need a parachute – a plan for how you will address the risks, meet the challenges and maximize the opportunities and experiences that higher education presents. This InWIC session is intended to help you begin to prepare your plan.Item An Investigation of Legal and Ethical Issues with User-Generated Content and Other Forms of Electronically Stored Information Communicated via Social Media, Messaging Apps and Social Devices, Including the Internet of Things(2016-04-08) Faklaris, Cori; Hook, Sara AnneOn social networking services, sharing is caring. However, depending on who or what is involved, sharing can be the source of a community transgression, copyright infringement, a violation of employment policies or worse. If people who use social media, mobile messaging apps and social devices do not know where the ethical or legal lines are drawn, in jurisprudence, in vendor Terms of Service, in professional codes of conduct or in keeping with online social norms, they are in jeopardy of being publicly shamed or even sued. Users may also put their employers, friends and colleagues at risk of community, professional or legal penalties in an era where the boundary between work and leisure is becoming even more blurred. This mixed-methods, interdisciplinary research project explores the current state of awareness on a range of legal and ethical issues involving User-Generated Content (UGC) and other forms of Electronically Stored Information (ESI) on social networks and devices for personal and enterprise use and for several different constituencies, including marketers, artists, journalists, academics, educators, entrepreneurs, bloggers, photographers and videographers. The quantitative, numeric data resulting from an online survey as well as qualitative, descriptive data gathered from semi-structured interviews with participants and observations gleaned in contextual inquiry will help address gaps in current research on this subject. In addition, the research findings will guide design directions for a tool, intervention or affordance to help users become better informed about privacy, intellectual property and information governance in the context of electronic sharing and more easily put this knowledge into practice. The first phase of developing the survey protocol is already underway, with a literature review completed and the survey submitted for IRB review as #1602921512. Pilot contextual inquiries and field studies are being pursued to guide development of qualitative research phases in the future. 1. Bohn, J., et al. Social, economic, and ethical implications of ambient intelligence and ubiquitous computing. Ambient Intelligence. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005, 5-29. 2. Cohen, J.E. Configuring the Networked Self: Law, Code, and the Play of Everyday Practice. Yale University Press, 2012. 3. Erickson, T., and Kellogg, W.A. Social translucence: an approach to designing systems that support social processes. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) 7.1 (2000): 5983. 4. Faklaris, C., and Hook, S.A. Oh, Snap! The State of Electronic Discovery Amid the Rise of Snapchat, WhatsApp, Kik and Other Mobile Messaging Apps. Federal Lawyer, May 2016 [in press]. 5. Fiesler, C., and Bruckman, A.S. Remixers' understandings of fair use online. Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. ACM, 2014. 6. Hook, S.A., and Faklaris, C. Social Media, The Internet and Electronically Stored Information (ESI) Challenges. National Business Institute, 2015. Available at https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/handle/1805/7177.Item Legal and Ethical Implications of Mobile Live-Streaming Video Apps(ACM, 2016-09) Faklaris, Cori; Cafaro, Francesco; Hook, Sara Anne; Blevins, Asa; O'Haver, Matt; Singhal, Neha; Department of Human-Centered Computing, School of Informatics and ComputingThe introduction of mobile apps such as Meerkat, Periscope, and Facebook Live has sparked enthusiasm for live-streaming video. This study explores the legal and ethical implications of mobile live-streaming video apps through a review of public-policy considerations and the computing literature as well as analyses of a mix of quantitative and qualitative user data. We identify lines of research inquiry for five policy challenges and two areas of the literature in which the impact of these apps is so far unaddressed. The detailed data gathered from these inquiries will significantly contribute to the design and development of tools, signals or affordances to address the concerns that our study identifies. We hope our work will help shape the fields of ubiquitous computing and collaborative and social computing, jurisprudence, public policy and applied ethics in the future.Item “Oh, Snap! The State of E-Discovery as Social Media Goes Mobile via Snapchat, WhatsApp and Other Messaging Apps(2015-04-17) Faklaris, Cori; Hook, Sara AnneAs the researchers will demonstrate through current cases, each new technology that generates electronically-stored information is an opportunity to trace its path through the phases of the e-discovery process, to note the legal, technological, logistical and ethical issues at each phase and to consider any special challenges that lawyers and their support teams might face. This research is particularly timely, given that the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are being significantly revised again, based on a May 2010 conference on civil litigation at Duke University and more than 2,300 comments from interested practitioners and academics since then. Among the revised rules that will become effective on December 1, 2015, if approved by the U.S. Supreme Court and Congress, are several that directly impact electronically-stored information, including Rules 16, 26, 34 and 37, with the goal of making the e-discovery process more efficient and less burdensome and costly.Item “Oh, Snap! The State of E-Discovery as Social Media Goes Mobile via Snapchat, WhatsApp and Other Messaging Apps”(Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2015-04-17) Faklaris, Cori; Hook, Sara AnneWith the series of decisions in Zubulake v. UBS Warburg1-4 and the revisions to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure5, a new field within legal practice appeared, the law regarding electronic discovery (e-discovery). Although the phase of litigation known as discovery has existed for many years, with opposing parties and their lawyers making requests and exchanging documents that are relevant to a case, e-discovery transformed this process from the paper-based, pre-Internet world of discovery to a whole series of rules and decisions related to how to identify, collect, preserve, analyze, review, produce and present electronically-stored information (ESI). Not only is this evidence in digital form, but it also exists a wide range of media and formats, from word processing and spreadsheet files to photographs, blog postings, videos, emails and websites. More recently, debates and court decisions have focused on electronically stored information that is posted on social media sites such as Facebook as well as more informal and transient communications involving text messages and new vendor services for mobile devices, such as WhatsApp and Snapchat. As the researchers will demonstrate through current cases, each new technology that generates electronically-stored information is an opportunity to trace its path through the phases of the e-discovery process, to note the legal, technological, logistical and ethical issues at each phase and to consider any special challenges that lawyers and their support teams might face. This research is particularly timely, given that the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are being significantly revised again, based on a May 2010 conference on civil litigation at Duke University and more than 2,300 comments from interested practitioners and academics since then.6 Among the revised rules that will become effective on December 1, 2015, if approved by the U.S. Supreme Court and Congress, are several that directly impact electronically-stored information, including Rules 16, 26, 34 and 37, with the goal of making the e-discovery process more efficient and less burdensome and costly.