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An update on the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act that we discussed in class on Monday.

Victory for a fair use claim in the Google book scanning project.

Code of best practices for interpreting fair use in education.

AP gets ready to play rough with news aggregators and search engines - and with the notion of fair use.

The proposition "All that matters are authors and readers; publishers will soon be irrelevant" is debated in a video from the  London Book Fair.

An AP win could kill "fair use" and change the Internet as we know it. NEW YORK (RPRN) 04/07/09-

What exactly "fair-use" means in copyright law is being challenged again.

More about news media, but looks at how Google's aggregation practices interact with copyright and fair use.

Dec. 12 at 11am - Copyright & Commerce: Orphan Works and Fair Use in a Digital Age. Event is at the Newseum.

Remember that Radiohead experiment back in 2007, the one where they allowed free downloads of their latest album and asked listeners to pay what they felt was fair? Some say it was successful and others beg to disagree. Assuming Amazon...

I think that the debates over owning vs. subscribing, pricing vs. donating, supporting vs. freeloading are some of the most interesting aspects of the move to digital distribution. Would this work for Amazon? I think it was generally considered a success for Radiohead. I know I "bought" a copy.

Students hate textbook publishers; textbook publishers hate that students resell, reuse, and download copies of their texts. Is there a middle ground, a sustainable business model where all parties have a sense of fairness?

Downfall parodies meet copyright law and take down notices.  Watch this before it disappears from You Tube.

Sen Jon Tester (D-MT) has proposed a law that would take something like FRPPA one step further, putting most public government documents (e.g., who lobbies the White House, not gov't personnel files) into a searchable database. This would be an improvement in granting access to the public as currently there is a fair amount of hard-copy red tape that must be gone through under the Freedom of Information Act to obtain these documents.

Intersection of privacy law and copyright law (esp. fair use and library/archival uses) -- is it ethical to reproduce signed cease-and-desist letters?

Interesting project for Internet archiving...wonder about some of the (eventual) privacy issues that might be involved, though. As the article quotes the archivist: "'Whoever is going to be president in 2048, she's in high school now, and she may have a Web site, and we probably have it.'" How many political opponents would love to seize on this hypothetical person if her teenage rants (e.g., "OMG my mom is so horrible, she won't let me go to Kasey's party on Saturday! Isn't there some kind of law against child abuse?") came to light when she's 53 and in a position of power? Is/Will it be considered fair game to judge a middle-aged woman by what the adolescent says now?