Fair use

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Contents 1 Meetings 1.1 completed meetings 1.2 future meetings 1.2.1 fair use workshop? 2 OCW fair use exploration goals 3 Resources

[edit] Meetings

[edit] completed meetings

• Feb 22 FUse conference call notes
• Feb 22 FUse call accompanying slides (pdf)
• March 21 FUse Conference Call Notes

[edit] future meetings

[edit] fair use workshop?

• white paper, summary report, best practices document?
• potential workshop participants (in addition to the above)
  • molly kleinman (UM Library IP Specialist)
  • paul newman (UM Library IP Specialist)
  • susan kornfield (IP attorney)
  • lindsey weeramuni (MIT OCW IP Specialist)
  • david wiley (USU OCW)
  • julie lindner (eff)
  • fred von lohman (eff)
  • cindy cohn (eff)
  • steve mcdonald (general counsel, rhode island school of design)
  • georgia harper (general counsel, university of texas system)
  • jessica litman (um law school)
  • molly van houweling (uc berkeley law & cc board)
  • pat aufderheide (center for social media)
  • MIT's attorney (tba)

[edit] OCW fair use exploration goals

• how to take the load off of users so it's easy for them to navigate the content?
• what burdens does fair use put on producers and users?
• how to navigate sites that contain content with different licenses?
• how do we present this in the context of cc licensing?
• how do we mark things fair use? how do we educate?
• carve out a minimalist fair use practice that other institutions can also use
• do we want to expand fair use notions?
• explore funding for the larger workshop (hewlett, macarthur)
• decide on who to invite, which are the key players
• refine publishing workflow to incorporate fair use correctly
• filtering technology to strip fair use items out when course is downloaded?
• how to fit fair use within the the dscribe workflow?
• but be able to explain how supporting fair use is aligned with other michigan projects and others doing fair use
• better understanding for michigan folks of what the law is
• understanding of the risks and ways to mitigate

[edit] Resources

• http://w2.eff.org/IP/eff_fair_use_faq.php
• http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/fair_use/
• http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/terms/terms/index.htm
• http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit5/subs/MiT5_plenary3.html
• http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/taxonomy/term/374
• http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/forums/news_and_networks.html
• http://www.ocwconsortium.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=58
• http://www.is2k7.org/wiki/index.php?title=Working_Groups
• http://www.hastac.org/node/657
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-free_content
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-free_use_rationale_guideline
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Fair_use
• http://www.eff.org/issues/ip-and-free-speech/fair-use-principles-usergen
• http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/16/830/index.html
• http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/news/medialit_report_release/