Week 9 – The right to reproduce

Summary of class discussion: Copyright issues, hows, whys and wherefores.  Deciding what you can do.

Topics:

• What is fair use?

• Where does Interlibrary Loan fit in?   What about document delivery, electronic journals, and that ‘print’ button.

• What can preservation departments do in terms of wholesale copying

• Where does the DMCA fit into libraries and digital projects

Readings:

• Higginbotham and Wild – Preservation Program Blueprint chapter 8

• Giesecke – Practical Strategies for Library management chapter 7

• U.S.  Copyright Office – Basics http://www.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ1.html

• Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998  “Copyright in a time of change” by William S. Strong Journal of Electronic Publishing  (March 1999) Vol. 4 Issue 3  www.press.umich.edu/jep/04-03/strong.html

• “Who will own your next good idea” by Charles C. Mann Atlantic Monthly September 1998 www.theatlantic.com /issues/98sep/copy.htm

• NOW with Bill Moyers - about Copyright and Intellectual Property Transcript, January 17, 2003 available at www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript203_full.html

Assignment: 

• Create a brochure or bookmark that describes the basics of copyright or DMCA for ONE media (books, mss, photographs, music, etc.)
• Be prepared to discuss the new issues that arise with DMCA and the Internet.