copyright

Myth Busting: Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

Date: 

Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 1:00pm to 2:30pm

Panel talk for the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, hosted by Harvard's Office for Scholarly Communication, about depositing dissertations to Harvard’s digital repository, DASH.  Covering process behind and principles of open source works, licensing, and copyright.  Panel will also help dispell some of the misconceptions about Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs).  Held in the Dudley House Common Room.

Dumbarton Oaks Copyright Sessions and Workshop

Date: 

Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 9:00am to 4:15pm

Present "Copyright and the Current Legal Landscape" to Dumbarton Oaks Library staff, Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives staff, Digital Humanities Group, and Fellows from the Byzantine, Garden and Landscape, and Pre-Columbian studies programs.

Intellectual property aspects of e-Textbooks

Date: 

Thursday, November 1, 2012, 9:30am to 1:00pm

"Textbooks and Their Stakeholders" @ the ACRL/NEC Collection Development Interest Group Fall Program - Northeastern University, Eagan Center.

Copyright Law 101 (Countway Part II)

Date: 

Tuesday, August 14, 2012, 3:30pm

Part II: Review the basics of U.S. copyright law, with an emphasis on developments in caselaw, statutory law, fair use, and library exemptions at HMS Countway Library.

Copyright Law 101 (Countway Edition)

Date: 

Thursday, August 2, 2012, 3:30pm

Part I: Review the basics of U.S. copyright law, with an emphasis on developments in caselaw, statutory law, fair use, and library exemptions.

Libraries and Best Practices in Fair Use (@ MIT)

Date: 

Friday, March 23, 2012, 2:00pm to 5:00pm

What is fair use, and how can libraries use their fair use rights to better accomplish their missions? MIT Libraries will host an informative panel discussion with the co-facilitators of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries, who are speaking to librarians around the country to introduce the Code and discuss how its principles can help solve local challenges and improve policies dealing with copyright and fair use.