Zoom, COVID-19 and Academic Freedom

Scholars who support academic freedom as a bedrock principle that universities must uphold are seeing a troubling pattern emerge regarding the use of Zoom as a modality for instruction and academic discourse. The act of adopting Zoom as the preferred infrastructure for disseminating synchronous information to students as well as other scholars was, arguably, the

Fair use, COVID-19 and Remote Instruction

Fair use has been busy the last few months and the abrupt shift to online instruction last spring was really only the beginning. As academic institutions move into the fall 2020 semester there will be, potentially, more college students learning remotely than face to face. The unprecedented events surrounding covid-19 and the move to online