Description
Copyright law’s purpose is to foster the development of a rich public domain of knowledge available to all, by permitting rightsholders to control certain uses of original works for a limited (though still quite long) time. When copyright to a work finally expires, the work is said to rise into the “public domain.” Public domain works may be used freely without permission of the (former) copyright holder, making them ideal raw material for other types of published work.
In this class, participants will learn the basics of determining whether a work has risen into the public domain in the US, either because the copyright term has expired, or because the work is one of the limited categories of works that are not eligible for copyright protection. The class will focus on the types of copyrighted works most frequently found in archival, museum, and library collections, including books, unpublished archival materials, works of art, and scientific data. Participants will learn about tools and resources to help their public domain determinations, as well as ways to communicate those determinations with their users.
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- Identify relevant facts and law to assess when copyright protection begins
Identify whether a given work is or is not encumbered by copyright
Apply basic rules and standards for copyright eligibility to examples based on real-world situations
Apply basic rules to measure the duration of copyright, including the important threshold question of whether a work has been published
Distinguish between types of works that are eligible for copyright protection and those that are not (i.e., born public domain)
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Access to the recording of the class delivered live on 3/10/21 is available to LYRASIS Learning subscribers in the Learning Library and through partnerships with advisory group members, instructors, and other copyright education programs.
Instructors
- Brandon Butler is the first Director of Information Policy at the University of Virginia Library. He provides guidance and education to the Library and its user community on intellectual property and related issues, and advocates on the Library’s behalf for provisions in law and policy at the federal, state, local, and campus level that enable broad access to information in support of education and research. Butler is the author or co-author of a range of articles, book chapters, guides, presentations, and infographics about copyright, with a focus on libraries and the fair use doctrine.
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