July 11 is Fair Use Day, so go ahead, make some copies of stuff and share knowledge.
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Today is Fair Use Day
Posted by Stephen Francoeur on July 11, 2007
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A Fair(y) Use Tale
Posted by lacuny on May 23, 2007
Anne Leonard sent me the link to this humorous video on copyright:
A Fair(y) Use Tale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fchronicle%2Ecom%2Fwiredcampus%2Findex%2Ephp%3Fid%3D2088
There’s more to YouTube than cats playing the piano … 
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Is Turnitin.com violating the copyrights of students?
Posted by Stephen Francoeur on April 19, 2007
In the past few weeks, an interesting debate over whether or not Turnitin.com is violating the copyright of students whose papers, submitted by their teachers, are archived on the site. A pair of high school students in Virginia and two in Arizona are suing Turnitin.com, claiming that that the anti-plagiarism tool is storing and using their work without their permission. Some notable coverage on this debate can be found at:
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Copyright stuff
Posted by lacuny on November 15, 2006
Congratulations to the LACUNY Archives and Special Collections roundtable which sponsored the program “Digital Projects within CUNY Libraries, Archives, and Special Collections: A workshop,” which took place on Friday, November 10, at Baruch College. Richard Kim of Metro blogged about it on the Digitization@Metro Blog. He mentions an upcoming Metro symposium called Copyright: The Only Certainty is Uncertainty. The keynote speakers will be James Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian of Columbia University Libraries and Siva Vaidhyanathan, Associate Professor of Culture and Communication at New York University
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