Fair Use Week 2016 is Now Underway
UPDATE February 23, 2016: Roundup: Five Videos About Fair Use/Fair Dealing Produced by ARL Members. Also, anew today, a roundup of Fair Use Week 2016 opening day blog posts.
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Fair Use Week/Fair Dealing Week 2016 begins today.
The event includes participation from a number of organizations and institutions including ARL, ACRL, ALA, Internet Archive, and the Authors Alliance. A complete list of participating organizations is available here.
Tomorrow (February 23, 2016) beginning at Noon (EST) there will be a panel discussion at MIT that will be streamed live.
Panel Discussion at MIT
Fair Use in Scholarly Journal and Book Publishing—publisher, author, and library perspectives
Co-hosted by MIT and Harvard, this live-streamed panel discussion will explore the barriers and issues that arise when scholarly publishers consider whether to allow fair use as a basis for inclusion of 3rd party material in scholarly articles and books, and will consider the implications for authors and the scholarly publishing process. Has the recent increase in fair use decisions in the federal courts convinced some publishers that fair use is a powerful and viable right, while still mitigating risk for their business model?
The panel will include perspectives from a university press publisher, author, and attorney/librarian as moderator.
Speakers include:
Nick Lindsay, Journals Director, MIT Press
Bill Smith, Director of Intellectual Property Licensing MIT Press
Author and Harvard Librarian—Coming Soon, TBA
Kyle K. Courtney, Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication, Attorney and librarian—moderator and panelist
Direct To
The Fair Use Week website a calendar of events and a number of resources on the topic including this new infographic.
Fair Use in a Day in the Life of a College Student Infographic Feb2016 by LJ's infoDOCKET
Filed under: Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Publishing, Roundup
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.