- Open Book Alliance continues to express opposition to the revised settlement.
- Washington Post article on Google’s defense.
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Google Book Settlement News 2/15/2010
Posted in Open Education
Tagged commons, fair use, google, Google's Settlement, Internet, library, openness, public domain
Google Book Settlement News 2/11/2010
- The Google Books blog shares its experience digitizing Latin American works with the University of Texas.
- Alix Vance writes on Google Books Terms of Service and how they may be designed to blunt Microsoft efforts.
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Tagged fair use, google, Google's Settlement, ocw, oer, open content, Open Education, policy, public domain
UCLA Forbids Teachers From Posting Video
Patricia Aufderheide has posted on a recent decision by UCLA to forbid teachers from posting video. The decision comes as a result of copyright concerns. From the post:
Recently several communities of practice have formulated collective interpretations of fair use, or codes of best practices in fair use. These codes have dramatically reshaped practice in fields such as documentary film and media literacy education. They are used daily by online video makers who enthusiastically embrace fair use without legal harassment.
Thanks to Brian Lamb for the link. Also covered by The Chronicle of Higher Education: Wired Campus.
Posted in Open Education
Tagged commons, copy right, copyright, e-learning, fair use, higher education, online learning, openness, policy
Claiming Educational Fair Use
The Berkman Center For Internet & Society has posted a proposal regarding their thoughts on educational fair use. From the post:
The fair use statute’s implied promise of a wider range of free expression, especially for educators, has turned out to be difficult to realize in actual practice.
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Tagged commons, copy right, copyright, fair use, higher education, policy
Fair Use Evaluators
Jane Park at Creative Commons has a new post on tools for copyright. Park cites two tools, the Fair Use Evaluator and Exceptions for Instructors eTool. Both of these tools are licensed CC BY-NC-SA.
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Tagged copy right, copyright, e-learning, education, fair use, online learning, policy
Copyright for Educators Presentation
McU Media blog has linked to Wes Fryer’s presentation “Copyright for Educators.” From the blog post:
This is an excellent presentation about Copyright and Creative Commons, which caused me to rethink my usual several-times-a-year pep talk about copyright and far use. I’m usually not a negative person, so why was this particular presentation always about the “don’ts” and never about the “you can do these really great things”?
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Tagged copy right, copyright, creative commons, education, fair use, presentation
More on Fair Use
Further to the previous post on fair use made moments ago, a Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video was organized by the Center for Social Media within the School of Communication at American University. As danah boyd notes,
Fair use is becoming a bigger and bigger issue as more people get involved in creative acts that involve others’ content … This document is not a legal instruction guide, but a set of best practices. This document also opens up an opportunity for good dialogue about the relationship between law/policy and cultural practices.
Educational Fair Use Project
Lewis Hyde, Berkman Fellow at Harvard University, is proposing an Educational Fair Use Project which he hopes will lead to a Statement of Best Practices regarding fair use in higher education. As described on the project proposal site,
Fair use is a key part of the social bargain at the heart of copyright law. The rights that this doctrine gives to the scholars, teachers, and creative artists in higher education only come to life, however, when they are understood, claimed, and used. Fair use has too long suffered from both the ambiguities of its expression and the threats of rights holders. The development of a well-grounded Statements of Best Practice promises to bring clarity and agency to an area where confusion and caution are now the rule. The very process of developing and disseminating such a statement promises to educate not just the users but owners and gatekeepers as well.
Three project phases are envisioned, including:
- research into current practices, including the identification of the most significant problems related to copyright for practitioners,
- development and approval of a Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use, and
- outreach, publication, and education about the Statement.
While the long term objective is to hire staff to implement what is assumed to be a “multi-year undertaking”, the short term goal is to find collaborators for the early planning of the initiative. Anyone interested in becoming a member of the fair use team is encouraged to contact Adam Holland, a research assistant on the project. Additional details are available in the full project proposal (PDF).
