Fair Use Week!

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!

Fair Use Week – How Parodies Transformed Fair Use

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