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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...

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The 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...

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MOOCs 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...

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HathiTrust: 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...

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Two 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...

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Brief 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...

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The 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...

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Simplifying 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...

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Copyright 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...

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Copyright 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...

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MOOCs—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...

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CNI 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...

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A 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...

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Starting 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...

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Copyright 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...

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Fair 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...

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DMCA 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...

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Circuit 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...

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Appellate 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...

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Finding 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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