Transcript New Copyright Tools and Best Practices: Copyright Law Update 2010 An webinar Mary Minow J.D., A.M.L.S. January 14, 2010

New Copyright Tools and Best
Practices: Copyright Law Update 2010
An
webinar
Mary Minow
J.D., A.M.L.S.
January 14, 2010
Legal Disclaimer
• Legal information
• Not legal advice!
Agenda
New Copyright Tools and Best Practices
1.
2.
3.
4.
Tools
Best practices
Copyright Agent (that’s you!)
Legislation and cases
– Google Books, e-reserves
5. Emerging issues
Copyright Tools and Charts
OK to Use?
Public
Domain
If no
Specific
Exceptions
If no
Fair U
If no
Get Permission Permission
Is it still in copyright?
New tools to figure it out
fairuse.stanford.edu/charts_tools/
Public
Domain
Is it in the
public domain?
copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm
Public
Domain
American Library Association
librarycopyright.net/digitalslider/
Public
Domain
Was copyright renewed?
Stanford University
collections.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/bin/search/advanced
Digital Image
Rights
Computator
Considers
licenses and
copyright
Visual Resources Association
www.vraweb.org/resources/ipr/dirc/page_1.html
Specific
Exceptions
American Library Association
www.librarycopyright.net/108spinner/
Fair Use
American Library Association
librarycopyright.net/fairuse
Baruch College
Copyright Metro
Specific
Exceptions
www.baruch.cuny.edu/tutorials/copyright/
Best Practices – Online Video
Fair Use
Comment, criticism
Illustration
Incidental
Preserve
Discussion
New relationships
[See Code for detail]
Center for Social Media
American University
www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/publications/fair_use_in_online_video/
Best Practices – Media Literacy
Fair Use
Prepare curriculum
Informal sharing
Student use
Limited audiences
[See Code for detail]
Center for Social Media
American University
www.centerforsocialmedia.org/files/pdf/Media_literacy.pdf
Incidental use
Critique
Illustration
Demonstration
[See Code for detail]
Center for Social Media
American University
www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/fair_use/
Orphan works
… reasonable steps
to locate owners
Society of American Archivists
www.archivists.org/standards/OWBP-V4.pdf
Copyright Agent
Designate agent to receive copyright
complaints
File simple form with Copyright Office
Put agent contact info on your site
… Limits your copyright liability for
user content
$105 one time fee
'Chinese New Year 4704
(2007)' by FaceMePLS (via
Flickr). CC BY license.
Sample website language:
Peninsula Library System
www.plsinfo.org/fea
tures/copyright.htm
Form - www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/agent.pdf
Info and directory of agents www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/
Update: Cases and Legislation
Google
Book
Search
10 million books scanned
2 million public domain (full text)
2 million publisher consent (some text)
6 million in proposed settlement
(snippets now / 20 % proposed)
See thepublicindex.org
Google Book Search - Update
Dec 2009 Google loses French
copyright court case
2010
Jan Canadian Writers object
Jan 6 More U.S. writers groups object
National Writers Union, American Society of Journalists and
Authors, Science Fiction an Fantasy Writers of America
Jan 9 apology; stopped scanning
Chinese books
Jan 28 deadline to opt out
Feb 18 amended settlement hearing
Library Issues
Readers’
privacy
epic.org/privacy/googl
ebooks/default.html
wo.ala.org/gbs/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/AGuide-for-the-Perplexed-Part-III-FINAL.pdf
Reader
privacy
E-Reserve Lawsuit
Georgia State University
pending
Watch closely
news.justia.com/cases/featured/georgia/gandce/1:2008cv01425/150651/
Publishers on E-Reserves
www.publishers.org/main/Copyright/CopyKey/copyKey_01_02.htm
Coursepack Lawsuit
Ann Arbor MI
Students
copying at
copy shop
NOT FAIR USE
Blackwell Publishing v. Excel (Oct. 14, 2009)
news.justia.com/cases/featured/michigan/miedce/2:2007cv12731/222190/
blog.librarylaw.com/librarylaw/2009/09/the-other-course-pack-case.html
Catcher in the Rye
60 Years Later
Unauthorized sequel [Holden
Caulfield], 76, escapes retirement
home
Court blocked publication in U.S.
Aug 2009
Library groups claim Fair Use
www.law.stanford.edu/publications/details/4316/
On appeal
Salinger v. Colting, ___ F. Supp. 2d ___, 2009 WL
1916354, No. 09 Civ. 5095 (S.D.N.Y. July 1, 2009)
(currently on appeal, Second Circuit)
H.R.801 - Fair Copyright in
Research Works Act
Would reverse National
Institutes of Health Policy
by prohibiting federal
agencies from requiring
federally funded works
to have public access
Pro: American Assn of Publishers
www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/m
j08/ppt/graphics/ms/image004.gif
Con: Special Libraries Assn
www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-801
Library Legislation:
Section 108 Study Group Report (March 31, 2008)
•Add museums. Require libraries to have public service mission,
trained staff, collection of lawfully acquired materials.
•Allow some outsourcing.
•Replacements and Preservation. Limited copies “as reasonably
necessary." If license available, don’t copy.
•Web content preservation
– libraries to capture publicly disseminated online content
– If no harm to commercial exploitation
– opt-out for rights holders (Library of Congress exempt)
•Libraries not liable for users’ scanners etc. Post sign.
•Digital ILL –no agreement
www.section108.gov/
International Treaties
Library Copyright
Alliance calls for
multilateral treaty to
resolve issues of
accessibility for the
blind and visually
impaired.
www.librarycopyrightalliance.org/submissions/international/issuebriefs.shtml
Emerging Issues
www.librarycopyrightalliance.org/
www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/copyright/
Publisher Viewpoint
www.publishers.org
www.arl.org/sparc
http://blip.tv/file/743274
Staying Current
fairuse.stanford.edu