Canadian Astronaut, Chris Hadfield's tweet about the last day, May 13, 2014, of a one year license for his performance of Space Oddity on the International Space Station posted on YouTube.
Comment on the copyright discussion between David Bowie, Publishers and rightsholders of the the song, and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield
Economist article and Hadfileds response to it on Twitter. More details about the copyright arrangement and implications of performing Space Oddity on the International Space Station.
Chris Hadfield's version of David Bowie's Space Oddity on the International Space Station captivated people resulting in over 22 million views. Raised issues of copyright and international law.
Lawrence Lessig presented a clip of a song by the band Phoenix to demonstrate Fair Use and YouTube's technology recognized the song as copyrighted material.
Ebook and course materials for Librarians to educate themselves and their community.
Examples of how the code helped libraries exercise their fair use rights.
Author's Guild sued Hathi Trust, a collaborative organization of several major research libraries, claiming that the access Hathi was providing to scanned materials (both scanned via the Google Books project and via other projects) was in violation of their members' copyrights.
Today the District Court issued its opinion (full text) in the case, finding that:
The fact that libraries have specific enumerated rights to make certain kinds of copies does not mean that they can't call on fair use to make other kinds of copies. (Section 108 does not limit libraries' section 107 rights.)
Providing access for users with disabilities is a valued purpose under fair use.
Providing digital copies to make analog works accessible to users with disabilities is transformative use.
Making copies of an entire work can be transformative fair use when it is for a transformative purpose, such as making the work searchable.
Hathi's activities are fair use.
Guide for developing campus-wide copyright policy from the Oberlin Group, a consortium of Liberal Arts College Libraries.
June 6, 2012 article on the Modern Language Association's adoption of an open access policy for its journals including its flagship PMLA.
"One holding that is certain to generate much discussion is Judge Evans’ rejection of the so-called “subsequent semester” rule, which had evolved from the Classroom Copying guidelines and led many institutions to assert that a liberal interpretation of fair use was permissible once but that permission had to be sought for subsequent uses of the same text. Judge Evans found this restrictive approach to be “an impractical, unnecessary limitation” (p. 71)."
Critical Commons is a non-profit advocacy coalition that supports the use of media for scholarship, research and teaching, providing resources, information and tools for scholars, students, educators and creators. Critical Commons also functions as a showcase for innovative forms of electronic scholarship and creative production that are transformative, culturally enriching and both legally and ethically defensible. At the heart of Critical Commons is an online tool for viewing, tagging, sharing, annotating and curating media within the guidelines established by a given community. Our goal is to build open, informed communities around media-based teaching, learning and creativity, both inside and outside of formal educational environments. Created by Steve Anderson Media Professor at University of Southern California.
As of August 2012 the site has 1,886 clips alone.
Blog posts with some practical examples of copyright scenarios that faculty and staff of a university would encounter.
a clear and easy-to-use statement of fair and reasonable approaches to fair use developed by and for librarians who support academic inquiry and higher education. The Code was developed in partnership with the Center for Social Media and the Washington College of Law at American University.
Blog article on November 23, 2011 about how to appropriately use online images. Author Sara Hawkins self identifies as a lawyer and blogger.
The questions and comments are also as valuable as the post itself.
At a September 19 meeting, Princeton’s Faculty Advisory Committee on Policy adopted a new open access policy that gives the university the “nonexclusive right to make available copies of scholarly articles written by its faculty, unless a professor specifically requests a waiver for particular articles.”
July 13 Interview by Nate Anderson of Ars Technica with the new top copyright official, Maria Pallate, at the Library of Congress. Her priority is enforcement embodied in this quote, "...enforcement because, if you don't have exclusive rights in the first place, you can't get to the other questions."