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Code Of Best Practices In Fair Use For Open Educational Resources: A Guide For Authors, Adapters & Adopters Of Openly Licensed Teaching And Learning Materials, Meredith Jacob, Peter Jaszi, Prudence S. Adler, William Cross
Code Of Best Practices In Fair Use For Open Educational Resources: A Guide For Authors, Adapters & Adopters Of Openly Licensed Teaching And Learning Materials, Meredith Jacob, Peter Jaszi, Prudence S. Adler, William Cross
Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.
This code of best practices includes descriptions, hard cases, principles, and considerations for fair uses of materials in open educational resources with respect to United States copyright law, and with some discussion of copyright outside the United States context.
Open Educational Resources and Fair Use
Educators, librarians, and institutions have invested in the creation of openly licensed, freely distributed open educational resources (OER) to advance a wide range of goals within the educational system. Open educational resources enable flexible and open pedagogy; increase access to authorship and facilitate representation of different student experiences; and increase equity by reducing the barriers …
Copyright: A Powerful Tool To Protect, Preserve, And Promote Your Research, Paul Royster, Sue A. Gardner
Copyright: A Powerful Tool To Protect, Preserve, And Promote Your Research, Paul Royster, Sue A. Gardner
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Conference Presentations and Speeches
Copyright begins at “birth”
You can also register.
The holder of copyright controls the ability of others to distribute: reproductions, derivatives, translations, performance
Length of term = until you die + 70 years
Licensing and contracts
Permissions
Publisher contracts
Creative Commons licenses
Gold Open Access/APCs
Predatory journals
"Can I use this {image / quote / video clip / ...} in my {lecture / course materials / dissertation / ...}” ?
Public domain (= no copyright)
Educational use = Not Infringement
Plagiarism vs. infringement
Fair Use (1): Re-using copyrighted materials in your own work--legally
Fair use (2): The 4 Factors
Who …
Copyright Law And Photocopying Practice In Nigeria, Glory Onoyeyan
Copyright Law And Photocopying Practice In Nigeria, Glory Onoyeyan
Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)
The protection of copyright is an obligation of nations in order to promote and encourage innovation and creativity The copyright law gives the owner of copyrighted work the exclusive right to control the reproduction of copyrighted works. This right, however, does not bestow on the copyright owner an absolute monopoly to control access to copyrighted information. The paper highlighted that illegal photocopying practice of copyrighted work is damaging to the rights of owners of copyrighted materials as it stifles creativity, innovation and development, and the introduction of the doctrine of ‘fair use’ is aimed at balancing the exclusive rights of …
Code Of Best Practices In Fair Use For The Visual Arts, College Art Association, Patricia Aufderheide, Peter Jaszi
Code Of Best Practices In Fair Use For The Visual Arts, College Art Association, Patricia Aufderheide, Peter Jaszi
Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.
The mission of the College Art Association (CAA) is to promote the visual arts and their understanding through advocacy, intellectual engagement, and a commitment to the diversity of practices and practitioners. CAA contributes to the visual arts profession as a whole through scholarly publications, advocacy, exchange of research and new work, and the development of standards and guidelines that reflect the best practices of the field. The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts is based on a consensus of professionals in the visual arts who use copyrighted images, texts, and other materials in their creative …
Brief Of Digital Humanities And Law Scholars As Amici Curiae In Support Of Defendant-Appellees And Affirmance, (The Authors Guild, Inc., Et Al., V. Google, Inc., Et Al.), Matthew L. Jockers, Matthew Sag, Jason Schultz
Brief Of Digital Humanities And Law Scholars As Amici Curiae In Support Of Defendant-Appellees And Affirmance, (The Authors Guild, Inc., Et Al., V. Google, Inc., Et Al.), Matthew L. Jockers, Matthew Sag, Jason Schultz
Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.
Amici are over 150 professors and scholars who teach, write, and research in computer science, the digital humanities, linguistics or law, and two associations that represent Digital Humanities scholars generally.2 Amici have an interest in this case because of its potential impact on their ability to discover and understand, through automated means, the data in and relationships among textual works. Legal Scholar Amici also have an interest in the sound development of intellectual property law. Resolution of the legal issue of copying for non-expressive uses has far-reaching implications for the scope of copyright protection, a subject germane to Amici’s professional …
United States Copyright Fair Use Checklist, Kenneth D. Crews
United States Copyright Fair Use Checklist, Kenneth D. Crews
Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.
Copyright fair use checklist available for scholars, students, and others to determine whether a use of copyrighted material may be considered a fair use. This document is meant to provide guidance for individuals to make their own determinations about whether a use may be considered a fair use. It does not constitute legal advice.
Introduction to the Checklist
The Fair Use Checklist and variations on it have been widely used for many years to help educators, librarians, lawyers, and many other users of copyrighted works determine whether their activities are within the limits of fair use under U.S. copyright law …
Bound By Law? Trapped In A Struggle She Didn't Understand, By Day A Filmmaker, By Night She Fought For Fair Use! [Tales From The Public Domain], Keith Aoki, James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins
Bound By Law? Trapped In A Struggle She Didn't Understand, By Day A Filmmaker, By Night She Fought For Fair Use! [Tales From The Public Domain], Keith Aoki, James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins
Copyright, Fair Use, Scholarly Communication, etc.
A graphic novel about fair use with respect to United States copyright law.
Synopsis:
A documentary is being filmed. A cell phone rings, playing the "Rocky" theme song. The filmmaker is told she must pay $10,000 to clear the rights for the song. Can this be true? "Eyes on the Prize," the great civil rights documentary, was pulled from circulation because the filmmakers' rights to music and footage had expired.
What's going on here? It's the collision of documentary filmmaking and intellectual property law, and it's the inspiration for this comic book. Follow its heroine Akika as she films her …