First Sale is Affirmed by the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court issued its opinion, on March 19, 2013, in a case heard last fall that has implications for higher education. The question before the Court was - How do Section 602(a)(1) of the...
View ArticleThe Next Great Copyright Act
On March 20, 2013, Register of Copyrights, Maria Pallante, testified before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet where she advocated for an...
View ArticleMOOCs and Intellectual Property: Ownership and Use Rights
Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have become the buzzword these days. Besides the interest and the hype associated with MOOCs, campuses are having serious discussions about the opportunities and...
View ArticleHathiTrust: The Collection and Its Uses
John Wilkin and Sigrid Anderson Cordell provide an overview of HathiTrust and will discuss some uses of the materials in the repository. HathiTrust is the world's largest research library digital...
View ArticleTwo Copyright Items of Note
On April 24, 2013, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Robert Goodlatte (R-VA) announced that the Committee would conduct a comprehensive review of U.S. copyright law over the coming months. The goal...
View ArticleBrief of Amici Curiae Higher Education Associations in Support of Appellees...
This Amica Curiae brief, filed on June 4, 2013 by the American Council on Education (ACE) and with EDUCAUSE as a signer, supports HathiTrust and appellees, with the primary reason that "copyright fair...
View ArticleThe HathiTrust Case and Appeal: A Policy Brief
On October 10, 2012, Judge Harold Baer of the U.S. District Court in New York ruled in favor of the HathiTrust Digital Library (HDL) and its university partners in a copyright infringement suit brought...
View ArticleSimplifying Copyright in Online Education: Understanding New Behaviors
We will explore lessons learned from a pilot collaboration between SUNY Empire's master's in learning and emerging technologies and SIPX (formerly Stanford Intellectual Property Exchange). Gain...
View ArticleCopyright Challenges Facing Higher Education
There has never been a more challenging time for higher educational institutions in relation to copyright law and policy. Georgia State University's electronic course reserve policy has been challenged...
View ArticleCopyright Challenges in a MOOC Environment
The intersection of copyright and the scale and delivery of MOOCs highlights the enduring tensions between academic freedom, institutional autonomy, and copyright law in higher education. To gain...
View ArticleMOOCs—Key Legal and Policy Issues for Colleges and Universities
The National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA), ACE, and EDUCAUAUSE held a webinar on July 25th, 2013 on the key legal and policy issues regarding massive open online courses...
View ArticleCNI 2013 Podcast: Rights, Research, Results — The Copyright Review...
Melissa Levine is lead copyright officer and principal investigator at the University of Michigan. In this conversation she reviews the Institute of Museum and Library Services-funded Copyright Review...
View ArticleA New Polemic: Libraries, MOOCs, and the Pedagogical Landscape
The author, Nora Almeida, examines MOOCs through the lense of libraries, including intellectual property, digital preservation, and information delivery and curricular support models. The author states...
View ArticleStarting the Conversation: University-wide Research Data Management Policy
This article represents a call for action to address the high-level benefits of adopting a university-wide policy regarding research data management. An institution should identify all the...
View ArticleCopyright Challenges Facing Higher Education
This podcast features session audio from the EDUAUSE 2013 Annual Conference. The speaker is Pam Samuelson, Faculty Director for the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology at the University of...
View ArticleFair Use on the Physical and Digital Campus
How can higher education professional staff best facilitate faculty and student use of copyrighted materials as they teach, learn, and research? Aufderheide and Butler explained basic principles of...
View ArticleDMCA Multi-Stakeholder Process Focuses on Standardized Notice
Summary: The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) have chartered a multi-stakeholder process to pursue voluntary...
View ArticleCircuit Court Issues Decision in HathiTrust Digital Library Case
On June 10, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit determined in Authors Guild v. HathiTrust that the HathiTrust Digital Library constitutes a “fair use” of copyrights works, largely...
View ArticleAppellate Court Reverses Ruling on E-Reserves at Georgia State University
On October 18, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit unanimously reversed a district court ruling in Cambridge University Press et al. v Carl V. Patton et al., a case in...
View ArticleFinding the Public Domain: 19 Institutions Making an Impact
Working together through the IMLS-grant funded Copyright Review Management System (CRMS), nineteen libraries collaborate daily in identifying public domain volumes held in the HathiTrust Digital...
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