Re: web page management

[Linda Wilkinson <cn2459@COASTALNET.COM>]

We had a similar problem, but with students rather than parents. Last year,
2 students voluntarily put up the original school home page. They did an
excellent job on it. This year, however, they decided to put a large
copyright notice with their names as copyright owners. Meanwhile, I had
been given responsibility for the home page & Internet use. I explained to
them that copyright was a legal, contractual matter. They could not legally
claim ownership for the home page of a public school. They did not pay the
phone bill nor the Internet service provider. They did not provide the
computer, modem, building, software, etc., used to produce the home page.
They did not set Internet policy--the School Board's policy was already in
the District's Policy Manual. They could not claim legal ownership any more
than I could. They decided to discontinue their work on the home page & my
supervisor chose to allow them to remove all content. The home page became
my responsibility & I developed a new one from scratch.

Linda Wilkinson
New Bern High School
New Bern, NC
school: cn2535@coastalnet.com
home: cn2459@coastalnet.com
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> From: Margie & Henry Hall <hallmhq@avana.net>
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: web page management
> Date: Monday, November 03, 1997 10:56 PM
>
> I would like to know if anyone else has run into the problem we're
> having at my school.  A parent graciously put up a web page for the
> school & now is posting whatever he wants without school approval, on
> the web page under the school name.  The principal doesn't like it but
> won't confront him about it.  Has anyone been down this road before?
> Margie Hall, Media Specialist
> Chapel Hill Elementary, Douglasville, GA
> hallmhq@avana.net
>
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