Your Life Torn Open, essay 1: Sharing is a trap This article was taken from the March 2011 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online. The author of The Cult Of The Amateurargues that if we lose our privacy we sacrifice a fundamental part of our humanity. Every so often, when I'm in Amsterdam, I visit the Rijksmuseum to remind myself about the history of privacy. I go there to gaze at a picture called The Woman in Blue Reading a Letter, which was painted by Jan Vermeer in 1663. It is of an unidentified Dutch woman avidly reading a letter. Today, as social media continues radically to transform how we communicate and interact, I can't help thinking with a heavy heart about The Woman in Blue. On this future network, we will all know what everyone is doing all the time. Every so often, when I'm in London, I visit University College to remind myself about the future of privacy.
Techdirt. Music Law 101: What Does Copyright Law Protect? | ReverbNation Blog We are pleased to introduce a new blog series. Music Law 101 will be a recurring bi-weekly series consisting of posts covering a wide variety of legal topics relevant to artists, musicians, songwriters, producers, and others in the music industry. Topics will include information on copyright law, trademark law, the right of publicity, laws relating to agents and managers, and music contract law. With the Music Law 101 series, we intend to break down legal jargon to make the concepts useful to you as you create, perform, and distribute music. We want to help you Protect Your Music and Protect Yourself. Copyright law can be confusing. The most important concept in music copyright law is that each single piece of recorded music involves two distinct rights: The first right protects the underlying musical composition—that is, the specific arrangement and combination of musical notes, chords, rhythm, harmonies, and song lyrics. The Music Law 101 series is provided by Coe W.
jacobsen If you have ever actually read through a software end user license agreement, you know that they are often full of restrictions on how you can use the software. Typically, the agreement states that the license to use the software is contingent upon compliance with all of those restrictions. If you violate any of those provisions, you are breaching the agreement. But are you also committing copyright infringement? In its recent opinion in MDY Industries v.
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EDRI | Digital Civil Rights in Europe The Internet and Musical Copyright Law The Internet and Musical Copyright Law Yuriko Tada I. Introduction My friend John is the vocalist and songwriter for a rock band that enjoyed modest radio success some years ago. Every three months, John receives a check from BMI, one of three main companies who administer the system of performance royalties. 1 Enclosed with the check is an itemized statement of the air play that each of the band’s registered songs has received, and how much money John received each time. For some musicians, performance royalties are a primary source of income. This paper argues that depriving singers/musicians of performance royalties for broadcasts is an anachronism rooted in the origins of modern American copyright law, and that the original rationales are no longer valid. II. Copyright law in music makes two crucial distinctions. The second important distinction in copyright law is between the performance and reproduction of musical works. III. IV. Again, "My Way" provides a good illustration. A. B.
Copyright Tools Copyright tools can help libraries and others to be more comfortable with their work to interpret the limitations and exceptions to the exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder under U.S. Copyright law. By exercising these valuable exceptions, we strengthen copyright’s primary purpose "to promote the progress of science and useful arts." Over the past several years, ALA has developed tools to educate libraries, librarians, and others about copyright. These tools – the Public Domain Slider, the Section 108 Spinner, the Fair Use Evaluator, and the Exceptions for Instructors eTool – are all available online for anyone to use. Public Domain Slider The Public Domain Slider is a tool to help determine the copyright status of a work that is first published in the U.S. Section 108 Spinner This simple tool can help you determine whether or not a particular reproduction is covered by this exemption. Exceptions for Instructors eTool Tool Modification
Protect Innovation Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries - Center for Media and Social Impact Introduction The mission of academic and research librarians is to enable teaching, learning, and research. Along with serving current faculty, researchers, and students (especially graduate students), these librarians also serve the general public, to whom academic and research libraries are often open. Finally, academic and research librarians are committed to faculty, researchers, and students of the future, who depend on the responsible collection, curation, and preservation of materials over time. Copyright law affects the work of academic and research librarians pervasively and in complex ways, because the great bulk of these librarians’ work deals with accessing, storing, exhibiting, or providing access to copyrighted material. In addition to specific exceptions for libraries and educators, academic and research librarians use the important general exemption of fair use to accomplish their mission. How This Document Was Created What This Is What This Isn't Copyright and Fair Use Notes
Welcome to School Library Expert Support - Todaro ALA Initiative SCHOOL LIBRARIES WORKSPACE "Libraries Transform: The Expert in the Library" - LibGuides at Austin Community College Skip to main content Todaro ALA Initiative SCHOOL LIBRARIES WORKSPACE "Libraries Transform: The Expert in the Library": Welcome to School Library Expert Support AASL Infographic Strong School Libraries Build Strong Students (AASL Infographic) "I am the Expert in the Library" Meme Videos (presently on YouTube or Google Drive) School Library Advocacy Videos Students need Libraries in HISD School Libraries Transform Learning (AASL Infographic) School Librarians Transform Learning (AASL Infographic) Infographic: Librarians Embrace Tech Instruction (SLJ Infographic) From “School Librarians Want More Tech—and Bandwidth | SLJ 2015 Tech Survey.” Chart Design and Illustration by Jean Tuttle Next: Todaro Committee Membership / Charge >>
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