3 things i wish more library people knew about copyright
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Presented at ALA Annual Conference 2014 June 29, 2014TRANSCRIPT
3 thingsI wish more library people knew about
copyrightKatie Fortney
Copyright Policy & Education Officer,California Digital Library
@kfortneyslideshare.net/katiefortney/
This site has 27K digital objects.
Most of it wouldn’t be there without fair use.
Fair UsePermission: Band's Deed of GiftPermission: Sep-arate LicensesPublic Domain
For example: fan envelopes
When you’re planning a project and someone says “copyright”
You probably aren’t the attractive lawsuit magnet you think you are.
Law school minute
Actual damagesvs.
Statutory damages
Section 412
No registration=
No statutory damages
Section 504(c)(2)
Good faith fair use defense for nonprofit
educational institutions, libraries, and archives
Section 412
Section 504(c)(2)
SovereignImmunity
Takedown
requests
WW©HD?
Lots of stuff isn’t even
protected by copyright.
?
http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm
pre-1978No copyright notice
1978-1988If no notice, had to
register within 5 years
Unpublished works: Life +70
Only works of authorship are protected.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Threshold_of_originality#United_States
A thing I wish more library people
knew about copyright
copyright
libraries
Some people seem to think
we’re running wild.
We’re not crazy.We’re not copyright abolitionists.
Photo by Marion Siegel, fro m http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/article/library-occupies-heart-occupy-movement
We’re LIBRARIANS.
Study up. Join the conversation.
• Adler, Prudence S., Patricia Aufderheide, Brandon Butler, and Peter Jaszi. 2012. Code of best practices in fair use for academic and research libraries. [Washington, D.C.]: Association of Research Libraries. http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/code-of-best-practices-fair-use.pdf.
• Crews, Kenneth D. 2012. Copyright law for librarians and educators: creative strategies and practical solutions. Chicago: American Library Association. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/742234309.
• Hirtle, Peter B., Emily Hudson, and Andrew T. Kenyon. 2009. Copyright and cultural institutions: guidelines for digitization for U.S. libraries, archives, and museums. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Library. http://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/14142.
• Russell, Carrie. 2012. Complete copyright for K-12 librarians and educators. Chicago: American Library Association. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/666224034.
• Wikipedia. Seriously. See, e.g., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#Common_misunderstandings
https://www.coursera.org/course/cfel