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“The Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media Literacy,” released by American University’s Center for Social Media, is based on interviews that university researchers conducted with more than 60 media-literacy educators. Those interviews paint a fairly grim portrait of teachers, unsure about the specifics of fair-use doctrine, cowed into avoiding perfectly valid uses of copyrighted material. -
1voteThe Open Content Alliance has corporate sponsors of its own, but it seems to be emerging as an alternative for librarians who aren’t comfortable with the role of corporations in distributing public-domain material.
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2voteLeading commercial copyright owners (“Copyright Owners”) and services providing user-uploaded and user-generated audio and video content (“UGC Services”) have collaborated to establish these Principles to foster an online environment that promotes the promises and benefits of UGC Services and protects the rights of Copyright Owners.
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1voteThe writers, represented by the Writers Guild of America, want a bigger share of the profits from DVDs as well as other new-media productions of their work for cell phones and other handheld devices.
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1voteElizabeth Stark, a student at Harvard Law School, is taking aim at an article in this week’s New York Times about Students for Free Culture, a national group that promotes easing copyright restrictions. The group has dozens of chapters at colleges campuses, including one founded by Ms. Stark at Harvard.
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