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Talking About Fair Use in the Classroom
Recently at ProfHacker, in his post about intellectual property, George Williams noted “it would be in our best interest as teachers and scholars to start being more assertive about the doctrine of...
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5 Resources on Copyright Activism (The DMCA STILL Needs to Die)
I’m cranky today about copyright and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. As folks probably know, I post regularly at Wired.com’s excellent GeekDad blog. Over the past year, I’ve posted a lot about...
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Information on the New DMCA Exemptions
Yesterday, the Library of Congress issued its triennial statement of exemptions to the portions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that forbid the circumvention of digital rights management (DRM)...
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Letting Us Rip: Our New Right to Fair Use of DVDs
[This is a guest post by Jason Mittell, Associate Professor of Film & Media Culture and American Studies at Middlebury College. Jason blogs at Just TV.] This week saw the release of a seemingly...
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How to Rip DVD Clips
[This is a guest post by Jason Mittell, Associate Professor of Film & Media Culture and American Studies at Middlebury College. Jason blogs at Just TV.] In my previous post, I detailed how the new...
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Solutions for Dealing with Copyrighted Materials in an Open Access Course
Most regular ProfHacker readers know that I’m an Open CourseWare evangelist. However, I will be the first to admit that fully embracing an Open CourseWare philosophy isn’t always an easy thing to do....
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Four Reasons to Join the EFF This Week
This morning I want to point to four disconnected stories–all from this week!–that, taken together, point up the importance of a strong civil liberties advocate in online legal discussions. The...
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Pinterest: A Social Catalog
A few weeks ago, a friend posted something to Facebook from a site I wasn’t familiar with: Pinterest. The post in question was a wonderful photograph of a wall of bookshelves filled to the rafters with...
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Note-taking and Copyright Infringment
I don’t often post to Twitter before I’ve even had my morning coffee, but I did this morning (February 23; see the image below for the post). What occasioned the comment was an article in the Chronicle...
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Comment on the New DMCA Exemptions
Just over two years ago, Kathleen wrote about the DMCA exemptions issued by the Library of Congress. Last week, the U.S. Copyright Office published an updated rule with DMCA exemptions (it went into...
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Weekend Reading: Blasted Daylight Savings Edition
Welcome to the weekend, ProfHackers! I don’t know about the rest of you, but it seems to me like every year, adjusting to Daylight Savings is more difficult. But we’ve made it through the week, and...
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Open Access & Copyright: A View from the South
In all the discussions about open access and copyright, I want to add my story as someone from the Global South who strongly advocates for open access. Before I do so, I need to admit my privilege: my...
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