Developing Fair Use 
Guidelines for New Media

The Consortium of College and University Media Centers 
(CCUMC) is sponsoring a series of meetings to develop fair 
use guidelines for educational multimedia development and 
presentation. The call for guidelines follows CCUMC's June
conference on Educational Fair Access and the New Media.
Participants in the discussions include representatives of
the academic, library, software, television, and publishing
communities.

Some of the issues discussed at the most recent meeting 
include: 
 
How much can be excerpted under fair use and should there be 
different standards for different kinds of copyrighted works 
( i.e., should text or a graphical image be treated 
differently than video and so forth)?
 
Is it fair use if a multimedia program, which incorporates 
portions of copyrighted materials used under fair use, is 
used for instructional purposes?
 
Is it fair use if a multimedia program, which incorporates 
copyrighted material used under fair use, is stored in an 
institution's computer for use by other students within the 
institution?
 
Similarly, can the program containing these excerpts be 
transmitted to other institutions?

A third session is scheduled for January 5, 1995.  Prue Adler 
is representing ARL in these discussions.

Prue Adler
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