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Who Owns the Copyright Industries, and Why It Matters
The US Department of Justice might have seen the light and decided not to side with foreign publishers against a US public university, but it appears that the US copyright...
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CCUMC Endorses #Librarianscode, Retires Guidelines
Today the Consortium of College and University Media Centers has announced two very important moves to empower its members and the many constituencies that look to them for guidance about...
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First Sale Fast Facts for Libraries
If you read this blog (or follow me on Twitter), you’ve probably at least heard of the “first sale doctrine.” Maybe you’ve heard about the Supreme Court case Kirtsaeng v....
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Library Copyright Alliance Comments on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization
On Monday, January 14, 2013, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) (whose members are the American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries and Association of College and Research Libraries) filed comments...
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Fair Use of Textbooks – a Paradigm Case
In discussing fair use in the educational realm, we often mention that copying and distributing excerpts from textbooks, workbooks, and the like will present a challenge for the would-be fair...
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UC Berkeley Takes Historic Photos of California Landscape Online
UC Berkeley’s University Librarian Tom Leonard is a little self-effacing as he describes a project that might not have been possible before the Code, making historic California photographs available online...
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An Art Historian Uses the #LibrariansCode to Advocate for Open Access
Laurie Monahan is a professor on a mission. She’s an art historian at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and for years she’s been working with colleagues to develop an...
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Wash. U. St. Louis Gets Double Exposure for Its Graphic History Library
When museum curator Sky Lacerte saw a conference session about how some archives use photo overlays to show how landscapes and buildings have changed over time, she was inspired to...
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Starting a Copyright Conversation at Yale
As a participant in early meetings with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation about worthwhile projects in support of libraries, Yale University Librarian Susan Gibbons was there at the inception of...
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UC Boulder Takes VHS Tapes Back to the Future With the #Librarianscode
This is the first blog post in a series highlighting some of the fair use success stories we’re beginning to hear from librarians using the Code to move past fear...
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