Posts Tagged ‘shape-shifters’

U.S. Copyright Office – Copyright Law: Chapter 1:
§ 121. Limitations on exclusive rights: reproduction for blind or other people with disabilities63
(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is not an infringement of copyright for an authorized entity to reproduce or to distribute copies or phonorecords of a previously published, nondramatic literary work if such [...]

U.S. Copyright Office – Copyright Law: Chapter 1:
§ 107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, [...]

To me, this is the most significant, and chilling, statement in Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture:
… fair use in America simply means the right to hire a lawyer to defend your right to create.
Lessig, Free Culture, p. 187

AHEAD, the Association on Higher Education and Disability, has an excellent position statement on fair use and accessible texts for students with disabilities. I will quote from it extensively in the next few days. For now, here is the significant historical precedent for this expansion of the fair use doctrine:
…the legislative history of the 1976 [...]

If you’re coming to the Media in Transition 6 conference at M.I.T., please come to my session on Intellectual Property. It’s scheduled for Sunday, April 26, 2009, 10:45-12:15 p.m. The room is TBA. Here’s the presentation lineup:
Intellectual Property
Keidra Chaney, Raizel Liebler, The Intellectual Property of User-Generated Content
Artur Matuck, Ewriting Prospective: Rescripting Authors’ [...]