Fair Use or Fair Game? How One College "Solved" Fair Use

Tuesday, March 12, 2013 | 5:30PM–6:20PM | Ballroom D/E
Session Type: NC13

Across the college, there were copyright problems and questions: Help desk staff were asked to upload entire works into the LMS. IT staff discovered full-length copyrighted movies on our video streaming platform. Faculty asked librarians how much of a work they could use. If one staffer said he didn't think the use was fair, people asked another, hoping for a different answer (and often got one). Come hear how four departments worked together and created an online fair use evaluation tool. Attendees will get to use the fair use tool to evaluate different scenarios. Source code is available for download.