Calvin and Hobbes Copyright
February 28, 2014
The Calvin and Hobbes was published originally in 1993. It is still under copyright, and you must request the rights to use it from this site. However, because it being used for educational purposes in the classroom, it is acceptable. This includes in class presentations and student handouts, like syllabuses. According to the rights, it does not include handouts for non-students.
Seeing as this class has all of its material solely online and visible to anyone that cares to look it up, it makes the topic a little more complicated from the point of view that it is public. Safety would say that you buy the license for it, but $110 dollars is a lot for a header on a syllabus. I think if it were questioned you could have enough evidence to say that you were using under the proper classroom guidelines, but you may be asked to take it down.
Copyright is a very complicated process and its a lot less black and white then people think it is. There are so many different definitions and interpretations as to what is infringement that in this case, I think it could go both ways.
