Some notes from attending the National Association of College and University Attorneys’ Copyright and Fair Use: Codes of Best Practice in Higher Education webinar.
Quotes from the webinar:
- “For college’s, applying ‘fair use’ doctrine should be a case of risk management.”
- “‘Fair Use’ is about gray areas. You should ask yourself: is it a gray area for the other side?” (in other words, would it actually provoke legal action?)
- “A reason that fair use has flourished in education for images is because there is no copyright clearinghouse mechanism for images… but I think there will be.”
- “The Copyright Clearance Center is not [a library’s] friend… they are out there trying to shrink the domain of legitimate fair use.”
Other fun:
- “Artists are natural lawyers because they use a gray scale.”
- “There is always a degree of ineliminable risk when invoking fair use.”