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Georgia State Case Resources
Want to find out more about this case? Visit the ICPL Georgia State Case Resources page for links to helpful articles and blogs related to the Georgia State copyright case (Cambridge University Press et al. v. Patton et al.). This lawsuit brought by several publishers against Georgia State University involves the use of copyrighted materials in e-reserves in higher education, but the impact of the case and its potential results may be far more reaching.

Copyright law, especially Fair Use can be a complicated and confusing issue to navigate. The following resources have been collected to help librarians and other interested parties determine when fair use of copyrighted materials is allowed.

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries, ARL and American University. January 2012. This is a code of best practices in fair use devised specifically by and for the academic and research library community. It enhances the ability of librarians to rely on fair use by documenting the considered views of the library community about best practices in fair use, drawn from the actual practices and experience of the library community itself.

The following resources were collected by the Center for Social Media at American University.

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Checkpointing the ACTA Debate: Where Are We, and Where Do We Go from Here?: June 14, 2010

ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, has been under negotiation since 2007 by representatives from the United States and several dozen other countries. Although nominally limited to cou…
Fighting a Copyright Charge: March 4, 2010

UCLA says it will start streaming videos on course Web sites again -- despite legal threats from an educational media trade group. UCLA says it …
Streaming of Films for Educational Purposes: February 19, 2010

Recent reports of the disagreement between University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and an association of distributors of educational films concerning the streaming of films from course websi…
Copyright Threats End UCLA Library’s Online Video System: February 5, 2010

Michael Weinberg writes in a Public Knowledge blog, "Being able to watch videos on your own time is a great boon to students. There is no practical reason that a student has to be in a certa…
Hitting Pause on Class Videos: January 26, 2010

A trade group goes after UCLA for posting copyrighted videos on course Web sites -- and hints that other colleges might be next. A trade group go…
Media Literacy 2.x: Employing Fair Use Educationally in a Remix Era: January 19, 2010 | A session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2010
Digital practices in education—everything from remix assignments to posting of material on Blackboard—provide new challenges to educational copyright policies and stretch far past existing educ…
New Code of Best Practices in Fair Use Released: January 26, 2012

Today, January 26, 2012, the Center for Social Media at American University, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and the Washington College of Law at American University rel…
Fair Use & Copyright: October 23, 2009

"Fair use is the right, in some circumstances, to quote copyrighted material without asking permission or paying for it. Fair use enables the creation of new culture, and keeps current copyr…
Copyright 101 at BYU: September 1, 2009

This tutorial was designed to educate Brigham Young University faculty, staff, and students about copyright law and how it relates to them. This …
Copyright at Cornell University: September 1, 2009

The articles, presentations and videos found on this site attempt to explain copyright law. Information about and a demo of the Cornell Copyright Education Program is also included in these mate…