Hi Pat I just shot off some very perfunctory comments... I'd really appreciate your take them.
Gary Handman > So sorry that I missed all the drama! We've been busy getting info around, > and it's not leaving as much time to read reactions as it should. The code > is available online, and so is a host of educational materials that make > it > really easy to grasp; FAQs for students, teachers, librarians, slide > shows, > a video, etc. All at centerforsocialmedia.org/libraries and mirrored on > ARL's and PIJIP's site too. The webinar we did today will be up in video > format in a couple of days and I'll send a link to it. I don't think the > librarians' code is a threat to media makers, and I don't think librarians > should be second-class citizens in the area of free speech rights either. > Media makers and their distributors benefit heartily from the exercise of > fair use, and to have everyone understanding both fair use rights and > their > limitations makes doing business easier. > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Maureen Tripp > <maureen_tr...@emerson.edu>wrote: > >> What webinar? Anyway, I thought the guidelines were already available >> online. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu [mailto: >> videolib-boun...@lists.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Deg Farrelly >> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:22 PM >> To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu >> Subject: [Videolib] A plea for calm.... Was: Re: Chronicle of Higher Ed >> blog post.... >> >> Before this gets too out of hand... >> >> We have spent many many many posts discussing elements of copyright and >> fair use.... >> >> The guidelines mentioned in the Chronicle are being made public tomorrow >> in the ARL webinar. >> >> Before we spend a lot of time rehashing the issue, could we wait to see >> what those guidelines entail? Once we have seen them we can discuss the >> guidelines point by point. >> >> Thank you. >> >> -deg >> >> -- >> deg farrelly >> Arizona State University >> P.O. Box 871006 >> Tempe, AZ 85287 >> Phone: 480.965.1403 >> Email: deg.farre...@asu.edu >> >> >> >> >> VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of >> issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic >> control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in >> libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve >> as >> an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of >> communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video >> producers and distributors. >> >> VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of >> issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic >> control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in >> libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve >> as >> an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of >> communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video >> producers and distributors. >> > > > > -- > Pat Aufderheide, University Professor and Director > Center for Social Media, School of Communication > American University > 3201 New Mexico Av. NW, #330 > Washington, DC 20016-8080 > www.centerforsocialmedia.org > pauf...@american.edu > 202-643-5356 > > Order Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright, with > Peter > Jaszi. University of Chicago Press, 2011. > <http://www.amazon.com/Reclaiming-Fair-Use-Balance-Copyright/dp/0226032280/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1321544105&sr=8-2> > > Sample *Reclaiming Fair Use! * > <http://centerforsocialmedia.org/reclaiming> > > Early comments on *Reclaiming Fair Use:* > > "The Supreme Court has told us that fair use is one of the "traditional > safeguards" of the First Amendment. As this book makes abundantly clear, > nobody has done better work making sure that safeguard is actually > effective than Aufderheide and Jaszi. The day we have a First Amendment > Hall of Fame, their names should be there engraved in stone. --Lewis > Hyde, > author, *Common as Air: Revolution, Art and Ownership* > > “*Reclaiming Fair Use* will be an important and widely read book that > scholars of copyright law will find a ‘must have’ for their bookshelves. > It > is a sound interpretation of the law and offers useful guidance to the > creative community that goes beyond what some of the most ideological > books > about copyright tend to say.”—Pamela Samuelson, University of California, > Berkeley School of Law > > "If you only read one book about copyright this year, read *Reclaiming > Fair > Use. *It is the definitive history of the cataclysmic change in the > custom > and practice surrounding the fair use of materials by filmmakers and > other groups." --Michael Donaldson, Esq. Senior Partner, Donaldson & > Callif, Los Angeles. > VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of > issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic > control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in > libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve > as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of > communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video > producers and distributors. > Gary Handman Director Media Resources Center Moffitt Library UC Berkeley 510-643-8566 ghand...@library.berkeley.edu http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC "I have always preferred the reflection of life to life itself." --Francois Truffaut VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
