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Envisioning how fair use and fair dealing might best facilitate scholarship
Author(s) -
Caidi Nadia,
Centivany Alissa,
Samuelson Pam,
Wolfe Michael
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
proceedings of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.193
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 2373-9231
DOI - 10.1002/pra2.2015.145052010011
Subject(s) - fair use , scholarship , digitization , flexibility (engineering) , fair dealing , copyright law , law and economics , subject (documents) , political science , copyright act , internet privacy , field (mathematics) , public domain , best practice , public relations , intellectual property , law , sociology , computer science , economics , world wide web , good faith , philosophy , mathematics , management , theology , computer vision , pure mathematics
Copyright law grants exclusive rights to authors of original works of authorship, but those rights are subject to numerous exceptions and limitations, including fair use in the United States and fair dealing in Canada. These exceptions have traditionally worked to ensure that the rights of copyright owners are adequately balanced with the interests of subsequent authors, researchers, and consumers of copyrighted works. Moreover, fair use has emerged as the most promising legal mechanism for the digitization, preservation, and study of large collections of copyrighted work. Fair use and fair dealing provide much of the flexibility needed to ensure that copyright protection serves to facilitate scholarship rather than threaten it. Scholars encounter copyright law both as authors and as users of copyrighted works. With an eye toward the future, this panel will examine the extent to which the discourses and practices of the past decade have contributed to shaping and reshaping our scholarly environment, how the information field has responded, and why and how information scholars, researchers and professionals ought to remain engaged in these matters in the future.