For those interested in reading on their own, the Supreme Court has posted the opinion on its website….Continue Reading Warhol is out!
Every year in February, we celebrate Fair Use / Fair Dealing Week. This year, from February 20-24, libraries are hosting programs covering what’s new and what’s true about fair use. The Association of Research Libraries hosts FairUseWeek.org, and is a great place to get started finding fair use activities or basic information. Here are a…Continue Reading Fair Use Week!
Library copyright experts (attorneys and librarians) have jointly published a “Public Statement on Fair Use & Emergency Remote Teaching and Research“. We hope this will clarify copyright questions for library and academic staff charged with rapidly transitioning classes to online, when students, faculty, and library staff may have not had time or the ability to…Continue Reading Public Statement: Fair Use & Emergency Remote Teaching & Research
My kid’s elementary school has an amazing arts program, and they routinely display kids’ artwork all over the school. I was admiring a new African-American history themed exhibition, and appreciating how fair use makes this possible — likely, without any consideration of copyright or fair use by the instructors or administrators, and certainly without any…Continue Reading copying to learn : Fair use makes it possible
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 survey (which was anonymous), I…Continue Reading fair use quiz : paraphrasing a famous quote
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 practically a paradigmatic fair use,…Continue Reading Fair Use Week – How Parodies Transformed Fair Use
The GSU decision is out — here’s a link to the PDF. Don’t panic! It’s a reversal on fair use, but if you read more deeply, it’s actually pretty good. My notes (written for my library director and colleagues, on a first quick read, not yet edited) are below. I am posting them anyway, in lieu…Continue Reading Cambridge University Press v. Patton (11th Cir. Oct. 17, 2014) – initial thoughts
Scholarly Communication Advisory Thursday, June 12, 2014 link to 2d Circuit opinion by J. Parker I imagine you’ve read some of the many excellent comments, analyses, and news reports about the Authors Guild v. HathiTrust case. I thought I’d summarize briefly for you if you’ve missed some of it, and also try to clear up…Continue Reading HathiTrust Wins on Appeal
one big settlement! viacom v. google http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/03/viacom-and-google-reach-settlement-in-long-running-youtube-lawsuit/ … and one not so big: goldieblox v beastie boys http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/legal-and-management/5937633/beastie-boy-vs-goldieblox-lawsuit-settled-over-girls ……Continue Reading two copyright settlements
Couldn’t find the Greenfield v. Pankey complaint anywhere but PACER; posted it here: http://lquilter.net/library/Greenfield-v-Pankey-SDNY-20131231-2dAmendedComplaint.pdf … #copyright update: August 2014: This case transferred to W.D. Texas in June 2014, then settled in August. Settlement terms not publicly disclosed, as far as I know, but I can’t find the allegedly infringing images on Pankey’s website any…Continue Reading Greenfield v. Pankey complaint