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Library Associations File Brief in Defense of Fair Use
Last Friday, the Association of Research Libraries, the American Library Association, and the Association of College and Research Libraries filed a friend of the court brief to defend the fair...
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The Librarians’ Code, Orphan Works, and Mass Digitization
In preparation for the Berkeley symposium on orphan works and mass digitization, I thought it might be helpful to sketch some of the ways that the Code of Best Practices...
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Fair Use on the Orphan Map
I was excited to see Berkeley Digital Library Fellow David Hansen’s latest white paper, Orphan Works: Mapping the Possible Solution Spaces hit the Internets recently. It’s not a coincidence that...
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Should Libraries Fret Over Mischievous Users?
In the process of developing the Code of Best Practices in Fair use for Academic and Research Libraries, there was one worry that we encountered over and over again, and...
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Finally, An Easy-ish Question
Copyright law can seem so confusing, with simple questions like “when will the song ‘Happy Birthday’ enter the public domain?” prompting elaborate research projects that still do not settle things...
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Vital Stats on the Code So Far…
So it’s been a little over a month since we released the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries, and I’m almost used to typing...
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What If We Asked the Librarians? Or, How The Librarians’ Code Is Different
Today, with help from our partners at the Center for Social Media at American University, and the Law School at AU, and with support from a grant from The Andrew...
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Libraries: Let Profs and Film Students Continue to Rip DVDs
In a rich submission to the Copyright Office on behalf of the Library Copyright Alliance, Jonathan Band asks the Office to renew its rule allowing college professors and film and...
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Thoughts on the Copyright Office’s Priorities for 2011-2013
The Copyright Office (CO) announced its priorities for the next two years yesterday, including several items of interest to research libraries. This blog post will walk through some of the...
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A Copyright Victory: Video Vendor Case Dismissed!
It seems like all we hear these days in library-land is bad news on the copyright front. That makes yesterday’s decision from the federal court hearing AIME et al. v....
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