Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Open Educational Resources (OER)
New Legislation: The CASE Act
Celebrating the unfreezing of the public domain
Stanford Copyright & Fair Use – Key Overview Updates
Future of Libraries – Need First Sale for ebooks
protect your site from copyright lawsuits
Happy Birthday – ruling plus full court docket filings
How much of a photo do you need to alter to avoid copyright infringement? Hint: Cheshire Cat
IP Without IP? A Study of the Online Adult Entertainment Industry
Guidance on websites and copyright registration from the U.S. Copyright Office
Hathi Trust case – full docket available at Justia
Is it in the Public Domain? Review by Peter Hirtle
Public Domain Handbook – Samuelson clinic
Future proofing copyright
Who’s the Owner: A White Paper on “Improving Copyright Information Management: An Investigation of Options and Areas for Further Research”
Deadline: April 14th. Public invited to weigh in on orphan works – US Copyright Office
Technological Protection Measures – lecture by William Fisher
CopyrightX lectures fully available to the public
Unusual number of interesting copyright decisions
U.S. Case Law is in the public domain – why isn’t it all free online?
Congratulations, you have an app – now what? Legal considerations
Fair Use hearings in Congress January 28, 2014
Request for public comment regarding First Sale still due Nov 13th
Notes from an Accidental Advocate for the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act (UELMA)
Time for public comment on copyright and remixes, first sale, damages and more: Commerce Dept Task Force – Oct 15 first deadline; November 13 second deadline
Buy a book? Watch it disappear.
EU orphan works directive – a guide
New copyright decisions – written by Justia lawyers
Unlocking Technology Act – aiming for a right to unlock your cell phone
Public Knowledge has useful excerpts from last week’s Copyright Reform Hearing in Congress
Copyright Principles Project – House Judiciary Committee Hearing recording from May 16, 2013
Relaunched Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center
The Next Great Copyright Act – add your voice by May 14th
Attack on Open Access
Behind the Scenes With Winston Tabb, Representing Libraries at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
CIS Fair Use Experts Answer Fair Use Questions About YouTube
Copyright Case Summaries: Interview with Cicely Wilson and Courtney Minick of Justia
Interview: Rich Stim, Permissions and Fair Use
The Authors Guild et al v. Google Inc. :: Justia Dockets & Filings
Ruminations on monographs, rights and freeing the public domain
A new twist — securing authors’ rights when negotiating content licenses An interview with Julia Blixrud (ARL) and Ivy Anderson (University of California)
Open Access Scholarship, Part II: An Interview with Richard A. Danner
Open Access to Scholarship, Part I: A Conversation with Michelle Pearse
New Copyright Videos
Music copyright cases – Judith Finell talk Oct 21
Rising Into the Public Domain: The Copyright Review Management System (CRMS) at the University of Michigan
Fair Use, Free Speech and Social Value – Sept 8th – Anthony Falzone
The 2010 DVD Exemption to the DMCA: An Interview with Abigail De Kosnik, Gary Handman and Mark Kaiser
[ORGCon 2010] James Boyle: The Incredible Shrinking Public Domain
An Insider’s View of the WIPO: Interview with Janice T. Pilch, UIUC
Urban Copyright Legends
Lawrence Lessig: Re-examining the remix
Can My Library Scan and Post Unpublished Photographs from its Local History Files? An interview with Ricky Erway and Merrilee Proffitt
Open Source, Open Standards, Open Access – what is made open and by what legal regimes?
Comments due March 24 to Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator – on enforcement efforts
UCLA Takes Step Forward in Enunciating Educational Principles for Streaming Video An interview with Christine Borgman and Amy Blum
Would an approved Google Books settlement offer competitors equal footing?
Copyright For Librarians Already a Success - An interview with Dr. Melanie Dulong de Rosnay
Stanford revises Google Books agreement An interview with Mimi Calter
Do you need to send an copy of your online works to the Copyright Office for deposit? Interim regulations (Jan. 25) allow exemptions for most online works – for now.
Good rundown on Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) by Michael Geist
Evolution of U.S. formalities in copyright – Jane Ginsberg’s analysis
Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States – 2010 Update An interview with Peter Hirtle
Law.gov workshop (free) – Stanford Law Library on Tues Jan 12 10am – 5:30pm
SSRN: Should Copyright of Academic Works Be Abolished? Working Paper by Steven Shavell
Request for comments – webcasters’ public performance of sound recordings and ephemeral recording
World’s Fair Use Day – January 12, 2010
Stanford Dissertations Moving from ProQuest to Google An interview with Mimi Calter
Copyright and Cultural Institutions An interview with Peter B. Hirtle
Disability access comments due to Copyright Office Nov 13
Mostly bad news for educational fair use
Update: District court grants partial s.j. to publishers in copyshop case
Featured case: Scott v Scribd (children’s book author claims her work downloaded over 100 times without permission)
Featured case: Blackwell Publishing v Miller (copyshop and university course readings)
Featured Case: Author’s Guild v. Google Inc. (Google Book Settlement) #gbs – letters pouring in
Google Book Search Settlement A Publisher's Viewpoint with Tim Barton and Barbara Cohen
Using Magazine Cover Images in Book about Monster Art An Important Fair Use Ruling - An Interview with M. Kelly Tillery
Featured case: House of Bryant Publications, L.L.C. v. A&E Television Networks – Rocky Top clip
Featured Case: Peermusic v Motive Force- music publishers sue lyrics wiki
Stanford Fair Use advisory board members weigh in on copyright of Nuremberg transcripts
Legal birds twitter on copyright
Kenneth Crews criticizes lack of options for authors in Google Books Settlement
Putting the public back into public domain court documents – RECAPTHELAW.ORG
Updates on Perfect 10 v Google
Google Book Settlement letters to the court
Subscribe to key copyright cases via Stanford (courtesy of Justia)
E-reserve copyright lawsuit updates
Copy shop case update
60 Years Later – Coming through the Rye / First Amendment claim
Orphan Works: Statement Of Best Practices – A Quick Interview with Heather Briston
Stanford Fairly Used (FairlyUsed) on Twitter
Turning out-of-copyright books into gold: An interview with University of Michigan’s Maria Bonn
Mandatory deposit of online works
Fair Use Evaluator – quick interview with Michael Brewer, Copyright Advisory Network
Kindle Speech: Must Users be Disabled in order to legally use it? Quick Interview with Fred Von Lohmann
Settlement in Marketing Information Masters v. California State University – a follow-up interview with Jonathan Pink on copyright and sovereign immunity
Mimi Calter – Google Book Search Settlement Agreement – A Perspective from Stanford University Libraries
New tool for evaluating copyright use by libraries – a quick interview with Michael Brewer
Kenneth Crews on WIPO study on library exceptions to copyright law
Only 19 comments received by Copyright Office on DMCA rulemaking
Creative Commons license used by Obama transition
Larry Lessig on Charlie Rose – view online
Harry Potter Lexicon Case Appealed
Harry Potter Lexicon – Court says not a Fair Use
Is it still in copyright? Try the Digital Copyright Slider to figure it out.
Oregon Legislative Counsel Committee will not assert copyright on the Oregon Revised Statutes
Hearing on copyright status of Oregon Revised Statutes
Yoko Ono Lennon v Premise Media court documents available
Copyright Renewal Dataset Available
Updates on Harry Potter case, PRO-IP bill and more
Comments are now open
Follow up questions on state university copyright immunity case – Marketing Information Masters v. Trustees of the California State University
Librarian participant Peter Hirtle’s view of Section 108 Study Group to change copyright exception for libraries
Oregon Claims Copyright on Oregon Revised Statutes
District Court Invalidates Portion of Copyright Act as Unconstitutional; Holds State University and Employee Immune From Claim for Copyright Infringement
Public domain, law reviews and commercial legal sources: We have met the enemy and it is us
Libraries, Archives and Museums – Copyright Recommendations from 108 Study Group
Rowling v. RDR Books Trial Set For March 24
Federal Appellate cases on copyright available through Justia
Harry Potter court filings available at Stanford Copyright & Fair Use site
Fairly Useful on Paul Goldstein’s keynote: “Fair Use: ‘Incredibly Shrinking’ or Extraordinarily Expanding”
Question for Stanford Fair Use readers
Charts & Tools updated
New Fair Use podcast
Updates on Fair Use cases – quick interview with Rich Stim, author of Getting Permission (Nolo: 2007)
Welcome to the Fairly Used Blog
The Determinator: Behind the Scenes at the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database An Interview with Mimi Calter, Stanford University Libraries
Digital Access to Archival Works: Could 108(b) Be the Solution? by Peter Hirtle
Point/Counterpoint on the DMCA and CTEA A session hosted by the Public Policy Committee during the Art Libraries Society of North America's annual conference
Solving the P2P “Problem” – An Innovative Marketplace Solution by Rob Kasunic.
Digital Preservation and Copyright by Peter Hirtle
Copyright Protection for Short Phrases – Rich Stim
How I Learned to Love FAIR USE…
Basic Copyright Principles
Copyright Reminder
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