February 26, 2015
Copyright lawyer Jonathan Band details cases of fair use in everyday life (PDF document).
February 26, 2015
Post by Greg Cram, Associate Director of Copyright and Information Policy, New York Public Library
In 1939, the New York World’s Fair opened to great pomp and circumstance. The theme of the Fair was “Building the World of Tomorrow.” The aspirational theme reflected the country’s desire to shake off the doldrums of the Great Depression and focus on a better future. Participants included close to 60 nations, 33 states and U.S. territories, and over a thousand exhibitors. During its two seasons, the fair attracted 45 million visitors.
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February 26, 2015
Post by Molly Schwartz, Associate Fellow, R Street Institute
Is it legal for me to publish a blog post with this title? Am I violating copyright law? I am, after all, reusing lyrics from the chorus of a popular Beatles song. The recognizability and cultural resonance of the lyrics is exactly what makes it an appealing title for me to use.
Molly Schwartz
February 26, 2015
Jessica Vosgerchian is a 3L at Harvard Law School and a Copyright Fellow for the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication. She has worked on copyright issues in the public and private sectors.
Last September, the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit diverged from the judicial trend of treating “transformative use” as the most important element in the test to determine whether a defendant’s use of another’s work was fair, and so not infringement under the Copyright Act. In Kienitz v. Sconnie Nation LLC, 766 F.3d 756 (7th Cir. 2014) (Kienitz II), the Court affirmed the lower court’s holding that the defendants’ manipulation of a photo for a t-shirt design constituted fair use but employed a different interpretation of the fair use test.
Jessica Vosgerchian
February 26, 2015
Check out all of the great posts from Day 3 of Fair Use Week 2015! Don’t see yours? Contact us to get yours added!
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February 25, 2015
Post by Chelsea Brooks, Student Attorney, Samuelson-Gluskho Tech Law & Policy Clinic
This week the Samuelson-Gluskho Tech Law & Policy Clinic celebrates fair use in this semester’s inagural podcast. Student Attorney Chelsea Brooks, and Student Technologist Jeffrey Ward-Bailey present an interview with Ian Hales. Ian is an instructor of Technology, Arts & Media (TAM) at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Ian teaches sections of TAM’s introductory projects course, as well as the majority of the senior capstone courses within his department. Additionally, he teaches specialized electives in both motion-based design and social media management.
Chelsea Brooks
February 25, 2015
Post by Carrie Russell, Director, Program on Public Access to Information, American Library Association
In honor of Fair Use Week 2015, and because I have been talking and writing about fair use for a long time, I thought I would tell you a couple of stories that I encountered on my fair use journey.
Carrie Russell
February 25, 2015
Check out all of the great posts from Day 1 of Fair Use Week 2015! Don’t see yours? Contact us to get yours added!
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February 24, 2015
Post by Gretchen McCord, JD, MSIS, Digital Information Law
The following is an excerpt from “Copyright: What We Don’t Know Does Hurt Us,” originally published in The Copyright & New Media Law Newsletter 18:3 (2014).
Introduction
For those of us who teach copyright law and regularly advise both creators and users of protectable content, it comes as no surprise to hear that confusion and misunderstanding about copyright are quite common and that the resulting fear of making mistakes in interpreting the law leads to overly conservative applications of the law. This probably does not surprise most of you readers, either.
Gretchen McCord, JD, MSIS
February 24, 2015
Watch Fred von Lohmann explain how fair use enables everyday technologies, including ones that we take for granted.