Entries from ©ollectanea tagged with 'fair use'
Reframing Google Books
The U.S. Copyright Office is a generous and generally reliable font of information on a wide range of technical copyright questions. Despite that, or perhaps because of it, the Office's testimony at last week's hearing on the Google Books settlement,...
More on educational fair use -- from an unexpected source
When last I was heard from in this space, I was bemoaning the lack of any solid case law supporting what, at some level, we all know the be true: that the educational enterprise has a special place in the...
Educational fair use: a provocation
Some years ago, I was in a meeting with a high IP official of a certain political administration (neither of which will be named here), discussing exceptions to copyright law and trying to make the point that these were critical...
Just when you thought you'd heard enough about Shepherd Fairey and the AP
Before getting into the substance of my first post to Collectanea, I want to thank the Center for taking me on as its IP Scholar for the next few years. It's an honor and a privilege to follow in...
I'm doing a workshop for CIP on the process of thinking through copyright infringement risk management
As I discussed last week in my blog post, UT Austin and the CCC's annual subscription license, I have been thinking over these issues of what's fair use in the delivery of digital course materials, and how to identify and...
UT Austin and the CCC's annual subscription license
As CCC announces today, the University of Texas at Austin has subscribed to the CCC's new annual license for the academic year '08-'09. We added this source of authority to our existing legal (fair use) and contractual (databases and transactional)...
CIP's Handbook - Cliff Lynch's Ch. 9 online
CIP's Intellectual Property Handbook, which you can peruse at, Research Initiatives and Publications - Center for Intellectual Property - UMUC, includes as Chapter 9 a talk that Cliff Lynch gave as keynote at one of the CIP annual symposia a...
More (and more) good news for fair use
Last year I kept being amazed at all the progress I saw in the adoption of more realistic business models by the music as well as other industries. I thought it was a watershed year for loosening up the DRM...
Nice writeup of Center for Internet and Society's fair use win in NY State Court
The Bridgeport decision -- the one that famously proclaimed that there was no such thing as a de minimus use of music recordings (ie, no matter *how small* your use, it needs to be licensed) got some comeuppance yesterday: New...
A new era in defining and applying fair use norms
About 12 years ago, I was involved in the CONFU effort to define, or rather, provide guidance for, fair uses in educational contexts in the then-emerging world of digital networks. We worked on electronic reserves, multi-media educational materials, interlibrary loan,...
Suing Georgia
I have taken nearly a week to mull over this case that has been buzzing around the blogosphere, around email and even in real life, and I'm glad I did. I think I see it more clearly now than I...
Another attention getter on the campus infringement front
Bill Patry draws our attention to a copyright case in the 9th Circuit's Southern District of California that addresses the liability of individuals in their individual capacity for infringement of copyright: The Patry Copyright Blog: State Sovereign Immunity and State...
Patry's commentary on Posner's "How Judges Think"
I often recommend Bill Patry's copyright blog and I sure hope I haven't worn out my ability to recommend his postings another time, because this one is really, really worth a read: The Patry Copyright Blog: Judge Posner's "How Judges...
Turnitin wins important victory in fight to combat plagiarism (and the bloat of copyright)
To the relief of many a high school, college and university administrator, Turnitin's system for helping teachers identify possible cases of plagiarism got a pass from the judge earlier this month. AV v. iParadigms (District Court, Eastern District of Virginia)....
What are the components of "risk assessment?"
I really enjoy reading Bill Patry's blog posts and encourage you to subscribe to his feed and visit as often as he posts. I don't think he misses a single copyright case (after all, he has to stay up on...
Columbia Law School, Fair Use Symposium
There was a fair use symposium held at Columbia Law School last Friday. Rebecca Tushnet posted her notes from 3 of the events: Paul Goldstein's keynote (43(B)log: Paul Goldstein on copyright in context), Panel 2, which looked at the question...
Lessig's entire repertoire is now freely available under CC licenses
Larry Lessig announced today that the fourth of his books, The Future of Ideas (actually, the second book in order of publishing) has joined the other three in being licensed for free access under a Creative Commons license: The Future...
Speaking of fair use... did you hear about the Harry Potter fair use case?
Not too much news yet, but Stanford's Fair Use Project has signed on as co-counsel in a case that pits fan site collected information, in published form, against the copyright owners of the Harry Potter series: Fair Use Project to...
Jon Band publishes Educational Fair Use Today
Jon Band has summarized three recent fair use case holdings in an article entitled, Educational Fair Use Today, published by the Association of Research Libraries. He notes that the cases all found fair uses in commercial contexts (artwork, a search...
Mass Digitization blogging project completed
After 6 weeks of drafting, posting, tracking blog statistics, and weekly writing in a journal about the experience, I have just completed my blogging experiment at Mass digitization ~ Changing copyright law and policy, by posting the Conclusion today. Here's...
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