For Fair Use Week, I offered a small “fair use” quiz to colleagues. I listed a dozen or so different scenarios, taken from famous or recently-well-publicized fair use cases, and made a simple paraphrase of the case, with a “fair use” or “license it” choice. At the end of the
Originally published at Harvard’s Fair Use Week blog, Feb. 25, 2015. Fair Use : A Virtual Anthem of Empowerment and Joy for Librarians and Educators I WANNA SEE YOU BE BRAVE[1] The American Library Association recently passed an interpretation of its Code of Ethics to clear up confusions about the
It’s Fair Use Week! (see more posts! … #FairUseWeek) For this week, I’ll be posting some comments highlighting cases and trends in fair use. For my first post I thought I would look at parodies, and their role in transforming fair use law itself. Today we think of parodies as
Just a reminder to all who signed up: We’ll be hosting our first UMass copyright bootcamp on January 13 and 14th, from 10am to 3pm. We were so over-subscribed on the 14th that we added another session on the 13th, and thanks to all who helped us by swapping sessions
Authors Guild v. HathiTrust appears to be settling the sole remaining claim — whether there were any plaintiffs left (after the Authors Guild was rejected as a plaintiff) to challenge the library preservation copying uses of HathiTrust Links: stipulation / settlement, Jan. 6, 2015 (SDNY) (PDF) Authors Guild press release
As predicted, the 11th Circuit declined the opportunity to grant an en banc review in the GSU case (Cambridge University Press v. Patton/Becker). [An en banc review is a review by all the judges of the Circuit, of a decision by a normal appellate panel of 3 judges.] The next decision
Hi copyright geeks, A few months ago, Judge Kozinski wrote an opinion giving an actor a copyright in her performance. This was in the Garcia v. Google case, in which Cindy Garcia sued for copyright infringement, after being tricked into a performance in the “Innocence of Muslims” film, which led
notes to UM5/copyright-l I attended the Authors Guild v. Google hearing in New York last week. The Second Circuit will issue an opinion, likely some time in the next 6 months would be my guess, and it’s also likely that this will be the dispositive final fair use decision in
I attended last week’s hearing in the 2d Circuit. Below, I post my detailed notes (taken long-hand!) from the oral argument itself. See this separate post for my thoughts about the hearing. * Authors Guild * Google * Authors Guild response Notes about the argument Panel: Cabranes (telepresence), Parker, Leval
Well worth reading: A review by Peter Hirtle of the various claims by the Copyright Clearance Center that it is effectively a creature of Congress, or a nonprofit that serves all entities. The truth is that it was formed by publishers, to serve publisher interests. It was a need identified