*Cross-posted from ARL Policy Notes*
Check out all the great posts from Day 2 of Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2017! Don’t see yours? Contact us to get yours added! You can view previous roundups here.
Read More›Check out all the great posts from Day 1 of Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2017! Don’t see yours? Contact us to get yours added! You can view previous roundups here.
Read More›While my library is having a couple of formal events I’m plugging Fair Use week in my blog (theconfirmationbias). The usual disclaimer that I am not a lawyer AND, in this case, this is me as an individual not me representing Notre Dame!
The Clash’s Know Your Rights with its frightening warning that “You have the right to free speech as long as you’re not dumb enough to actually try it” is just as timely today as it was in 1982 when it was released.
You probably know that the right to free speech is in the first amendment, along with the right to free assembly and the prohibition against any religious test for participation in this, our happy republic. But you might not know that our intellectual property law ALSO starts in the first amendment. Yup, intellectual property law is the love child of the first amendment and Article 1 section 8 of the Constitution.
Fair use provisions of the copyright law allow use of copyrighted materials on a limited basis for specific purposes without requiring the permission of the copyright holder. This infographic, made by Harvard Library’s Copyright First Responders, details the current state of the law, including the four factors, transformative uses, and cases for reference which are linked to openly licensed resources.
This infographic, created for Fair Use Week 2017, refutes 10 popular misperceptions about fair use.
*Cross-posted from ARL News*
On February 22–26, 136 organizations and numerous individuals participated in Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2016, an annual celebration of the important—and flexible—doctrines of fair use and fair dealing. This year’s event was organized by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and participants included universities, libraries, library associations, and many other organizations, such as Creative Commons, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, the R Street Institute, Re:Create, and Wikimedia.
Read More›On February 22–26, 136 organizations and numerous individuals participated in Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2016, an annual celebration of the important—and flexible—doctrines of fair use and fair dealing. This year’s event was organized by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and participants included universities, libraries, library associations, and many other organizations, such as Creative Commons, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, the R Street Institute, Re:Create, and Wikimedia.
Read More›Check out all of the great posts from Day 5 of Fair Use Week 2016! Don’t see yours? Contact us to get yours added!
Read More›On October 13, 2010, a Korean high court affirmed a lower court ruling that a 53-seconds-long video clip posted on a blog, showing a 5-year-old humming along to a copyrighted song, constitutes a fair use, and ordered a copyright society to pay the poster damages for unjustly requesting a takedown under the Korean notice-and-takedown system. The judgment was not appealed by the copyright society and has now become final.
Check out all of the great posts from Day 4 of Fair Use Week 2016! Don’t see yours? Contact us to get yours added!
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