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April 23, 2008

"Fair Use" Wikipedia

The Wikipedia entry has grown to be quite thorough in its discussion, and is well worth a look. The External Links and Sources section at the end is quite a nice list for studying fair use. The article is U.S. centric, which is appropriate since most of the fair use law and discussion is taking place in the U.S.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

April 18, 2008

Nolo: Fair Use and Copyright [Podcast]

This podcast is 14 mintues of conversation between Mary Minnow, of the Stanford copyright web site , and Richard Stimm, of Nolo. It's a brief overview of fair use and a good introductory discussion.


http://www.nolocast.com/?p=113

May 30, 2007

Ars Technica: What the Copyright Office thinks about Fair Use

Well, it's not *everything* the Copyright Office thinks about Fair Use, however it is an absorbing discussion about ripping DVDs and DRM.


http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/fair-use.ars

May 21, 2007

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction: Copyright in an Electronic Environment

These guidelines from North Carolina give a sense of what is out there and being used for multimedia in schools.

http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/copyright1.html

April 16, 2007

"Fixing Fair Use" by Michael Carroll

Fair Use is getting a lot of deserved nit-picking these days and Villanova Professor Michael Carroll's points are interesting contributions. Published as Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2006-21 and
North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 85, 2007, the paper is also retrievable on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).


http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=945194