Smart Poodle Publishing has announced its writing contest for librarians, “What I Wish Everyone Knew About Librarians.” The contest is open to librarians of public, private and school/university libraries in the United States and who are legal residents of the United States.
First prize is $500. See the press release for details.
Wouldn’t it be fun if a librarian from Michigan won?
Add comment July 30th, 2008
The Center for Social Media, American University School of Communication, has published a Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video. Click here to download full report in PDF.
The Code was developed by a committee of copyright scholars under the chairmanship of Peter Jaszi and Patricia Aufderheide. The document developed by the committee is a code of best practices that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use.
The Code sets forth five possible applications of fair use to online videomaking.
1. Commenting on or critiquing of copyrighted material.
2. Using copyrighted material for illustration or example.
3. Capturing copyrighted material incidentally or accidentally.
4. Reproducing, reposting, or quoting in order to memorialize, preserve, or rescue an experience, an event, or a cultural phenomenon.
5. Copying, reposting, and recirculating a work or part of a work for purposes of launching a discussion.
This is a well-written document that will be useful to schools and libraries in determining whether their uses of copyrighted materials in online videos fall within fair use. For links to other useful materials on copyright, see MLC’s Copyright Links web page.
1 comment July 8th, 2008
It looks like RDA (Resource Description and Access) has been delayed again. Check out Karen Coyle’s blog post.
MLC member librarians heard an earlier update on RDA at our Technical Services Conference in April this year. We’ll post further update information as available.
Add comment July 7th, 2008
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