Copyright Resources and Current Issues

Thanks to the Chronicle of Higher Education for mentioning the new best practices from the Center for Social Media at American University:

"This document is a code of best practices that helps educators using media literacy
concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use
is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under
some circumstances—especially when the cultural or social benefits of the use are
predominant. It is a general right that applies even in situations where the law
provides no specific authorization for the use in question—as it does for certain
narrowly defined classroom activities."

http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/files/pdf/Media_literacy_txt.pdf

Posted by Lorre Smith at 10:59 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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

Posted by Lorre Smith at 04:14 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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

Posted by Lorre Smith at 02:06 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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

Posted by Lorre Smith at 10:49 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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

Posted by Lorre Smith at 04:39 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

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

Posted by Lorre Smith at 10:20 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)