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Fair Use at Educause Learning Initiative

At Educause's Learning Initiative conference, the tech experts at universities around the country get together to compare notes on how best to use technology to help learning. At this year's meeting on Jan. 19 in Austin, TX, members discussed with me how university copyright policies get in their way. They need fair use to be able to help faculty and students make videos for class; to help faculty understand what they can and can't put on their websites; to help librarians move productively to a digital environment. Read more...

World's Fair Use Day

The Washington, D.C. public interest organization Public Knowledge hosted World’s Fair Use Day on Feb. 12, providing a much-needed focus on Fair Use as a key asset of copyright policy. Read more...