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For the next few days I will be attending the Campus Technology ‘08 Conference. I am signed up for a number of panels on some rather interesting topics. I’m sure I’ll be picking up a few new ideas that I’ll be sure to share here. If you’re going, feel free to say hi!
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Fair Use is the phrase for a collective set of exemptions allowing the use of copyrighted works without the permission of the rights holder, or the payment of licensing fees. Fair Use exemptions were codified to allow for limited use in cases where the value of the use outweighs the value to the rights holder. [...]
As a follow up to my last post about Orphan Works, questions have been asked as to what is or isn’t covered by copyright, and for how long.
Michael Brewer in conjunction with the ALA, developed a slide rule style tool, available at http://librarycopyright.net/digitalslider/ that should help with a lot of these questions. Of course, if [...]
Recently, the topic of Orphan works has heated up. It has shown up all over the place, including in two sources that I follow that focus on legal rights in the digital world, Public Knowledge (which I’ve only recently started following), and Rules For The Revolution (which Ihave followed since its inception). Orphan works are [...]
