Includes accepted fair use practices for various types of materials, including documentary film, poetry, open course ware, etc.

American Association of Law Libraries.

By Michael Kelley, Library Journal, June 14, 2011 (web).

by Jeffrey R. Young, Chronicle of Higher Education, May 29. 2011.

Test your knowledge of educational fair use (by Hall Davidson, Executive Director of Telecommunications in Orange County, California.)

A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, University of Maine, George Washington School of Law, and Santa Clara University School of Law clinics. Includes detailed information on the DMCA.

By ADAM LIPTAK, New York Times. March 21, 2011. Some foreign public domain works have had copyright retroactively reinstated.

Randy Kennedy, New York Times, March 21, 2011.

MIGUEL HELFT, New York Times, March 22, 2011.

Youtube video from CreativeCommons.org.

In the December 23, 2010 issue of the New York Review of Books, Robert Darton of Harvard summaries the economic issues threatening facing research libraries, discusses open access scholarly publishing and the ongoing Google settlement litigation, and makes a case for a Digital Public Library of America.

"First rights" provision of copyright law does not apply to computer software. Section 109 gives a purchaser of a copyright work, such as a book, the right to resell the work. This 9th Circuit decision defines a software purchase as a license rather than a sale, with no resale right under section 109. Electronic Freedom Foundation.

Electronic Freedom Foundation.

Supreme Court held that 2 Live Crew's parody of Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman" was fair use. Fair use was subsequently codified as section 107 of the Copyright Act.

Details use of course packs by Indian students; legal action begun by three publishers, and raises questions about fair use in India.