How can higher education professional staff best facilitate faculty and student use of copyrighted materials as they teach, learn, and research? Aufderheide and Butler explained basic principles of fair use in copyright law, reviewed recent changes in interpretation, discussed the best practices approach as developed by librarians, open-courseware designers, and members of the professoriate, and how to use these tools to facilitate higher-ed mission, both in physical and digital spaces. They also discussed implications of latest litigation and fielded your questions!

Learning Objectives

• Understand the logic of fair use within copyright
• Understand how to work with faculty and staff to apply fair use to their situation
• Know how to manage copyright questions in the digital environment