You have been invited to participate on a college-wide committee to examine work-for-hire policies at your institution. During your first meeting, a committee member boldly claims that all work faculty and students create during their tenure at the institution should rightly be the property of the institution—especially considering the economic hardship and budget cuts facing most institutions of higher education. What is your response to this claim? An undergraduate student has accepted work doing freelance web authoring and design. She comes to you to ask what materials produced in a freelance capacity can be included in her professional portfolio. As both professor and professional mentor to this student, how might you advise her? You serve on an advisory committee for your college’s library. A library representative and faculty member co-present their proposal to adopt a college-wide media use policy. The policy includes requirements such as “faculty can use 30 seconds of a 5-minute song” in their teaching, or “faculty can post 10 minutes of a 90-minute film on the college’s streaming server” for class use. How might you advise in this situation? While working with a departmental curriculum committee, a committee member claims that there is no need to revise a writing course to include copyright and fair use because “there’s not enough time to teach that, too.” What might your response be?