'Every Week Is Fair Use Week' Fair Use Week. WFMU and the Free Music Archive recorded a special episode of Radio Free Culture, a weekly podcast exploring issues at the intersection of digital culture and the arts, for fair use week 2015.
In this episode, Cheyenne Hohman, RFC host and current Director of the FMA, spoke with Ellen Duranceau, Program Manager for Scholarly Publishing, Copyright & Licensing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Code of Best Practices in Fair Use. Embed imageView/download PDFThe Association of Research Libraries (ARL) presents the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries (PDF), a clear and easy-to-use statement of fair and reasonable approaches to fair use developed by and for librarians who support academic inquiry and higher education.
The Code was developed in partnership with the Center for Social Media and the Washington College of Law at American University. In dozens of interviews with veteran research and academic librarians, the researchers learned how copyright law comes into play as interviewees performed core library functions. Then, in a series of small group discussions held with library policymakers around the country, the research team developed a consensus approach to applying fair use. The Code deals with such common questions in higher education as: When and how much copyrighted material can be digitized for student use? Such codes have a powerful effect both in law and practice. The Good News about Library Fair Use (infographic)
Copyright Law: Chapter 5. And Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code Circular 92 § 501.
Infringement of copyright3 (a) Anyone who violates any of the exclusive rights of the copyright owner as provided by sections 106 through 122 or of the author as provided in section 106A(a), or who imports copies or phonorecords into the United States in violation of section 602, is an infringer of the copyright or right of the author, as the case may be. For purposes of this chapter (other than section 506), any reference to copyright shall be deemed to include the rights conferred by section 106A(a). (b) The legal or beneficial owner of an exclusive right under a copyright is entitled, subject to the requirements of section 411, to institute an action for any infringement of that particular right committed while he or she is the owner of it.
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Government CENDI/2008-1 October 8, 2008 Author, under the U.S. Copyright Law, is either the person who actually creates a copyrightable work or, if the copyrightable work is created within the scope of employment, the employer of the person who actually creates the copyrightable work. Berne Convention1 is the Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, signed at Berne, Switzerland, on September 9, 1886, and all acts, protocols, and revisions to these documents.
Clearance - see Permission Collective work is a work, such as a periodical issue, anthology, or encyclopedia, in which a number of contributions, constituting separate and independent works in themselves, are assembled into a collective whole. Copyright refers to the exclusive rights granted to an author or owner of a copyrightable work. Derivative Work refers to a work that is based on, or modifies, one or more preexisting works.
U.S. The U.S. SHERPA/RoMEO - Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving. DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. When I try to download a file, I get the message "The file is damaged and cannot be repaired" Mozilla Firefox users: There is a known bug in the Firefox PDF plug-in (which opens PDFs within the browser window) that will crash if a file exceeds its buffer size.
It will tell you "The file is damaged and cannot be repaired" (which is not true). There are 3 remedies: Right-click and download the PDF outside the browser (i.e., "Save link as ... ")Change your Firefox settings to open PDFs with regular Adobe Reader (or Acrobat) instead of the plug-in version. This is reached under Tools > Options > Applications. . { top } I don't have electronic versions of old working papers that I'd like to include in the repository. Yes--scanning printed pages is a great way to create PDF files for inclusion in the repository. When I copy and paste abstracts into the Submit form, some text is missing, quotes look odd, or strange characters appear in the abstract.
How do I revise a submission? Copyright & Licensing Information Sources.