Google Books: case disimissed
Federal judge Denny Chin’s decision today marks a fair use victory and the end of a nearly eight-year battle with publishers and authors. Hot off the press (searchable!) key words include: snippets,...
View ArticlePeer-reviewed journal takes fair use stance
Too often the joy of having an article accepted for publication is mitigated by the legal hoops involved in getting permissions deemed necessary to print images (or rather, wondering and never quite...
View ArticleDim lines and murky waters persist @ Georgia State
Put down the pom-poms for now. Last month’s appeal of the GSU eReserves case didn’t bode so well for fair use as it did the first time around. EReserves and fair use continue to be highly...
View ArticleInformation Sharing and the Right of First Sale in the Digital Age
The First Sale Doctrine is what legally allows libraries to share information. This doctrine is a “set of exemptions to U.S. copyright law that permit consumers to resell used books or DVDs and...
View ArticleMarx on May Day and other copyright news this week
Whose work better to be freely available than Marx? And yet on May 1 2014 (yes, May Day) the Marxist Internet Archive received a cease and desist from a small, leftist publisher, Lawrence &...
View ArticleHathiTrust: an important ruling in favor of fair use
In its decision Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the verdict from 2012, by Federal Judge Chin, in an important fair use ruling in the Authors Guild vs....
View ArticleSummer school for copyright, anyone?
Coursera is offering a Copyright for Educators and Librarians MOOC from July 21-August 18. The course will be taught by Kevin Smith, Lisa A. Macklin and Anne Gilliland, all of whom are librarians and...
View ArticleAre we Copyright First Responders?
Thanks to Curtis Kendrick for this link from Harvard. Their Office of Scholarly Communication has a team of Copyright First Responders, which got me thinking. While I would very much like to wear a...
View ArticleMonkey see, monkey do
On an expedition to Indonesia, British photographer David Slater had his camera stolen by a trigger-happy and photogenic macaque that – remarkably! – managed to take a phenomenal selfie. Among humans,...
View ArticleGood copy(right) in the New Yorker
In the most recent New Yorker magazine (October 20, 2014; also available online), staff writer Louis Menand deciphers not only the basics of American copyright law, but also some of the fundamental...
View ArticleThe take away: an important reminder from the experts
By far, the most important thing I (re)learned at this year’s annual copyright conference at UCCS is that we, librarians and staff at academic institutions, should treat each and every copyright...
View ArticleJudges unanimously side with ‘Dancing Baby’
Remember the “Dancing Baby” lawsuit? It began back in 2007 when Stephanie Lenz uploaded a 29-second long video of her toddler dancing to the Prince song “Let’s go crazy” to YouTube. When Universal,...
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No fees for Fair Use says foundation
Late last month, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation decided to drop all royalty fees, permissions, and license agreements for anyone who wants to reproduce the artist’s works under fair use. From the...
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‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ in 569 GIFs
Deliberately setting out to test the rights and limitations of the Fair Use doctrine, digital producer and copywriter Jean-Baptiste Henri Franck Cyrille Marie Le Divelec (JB for short) has edited...
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