18 Read and Discuss
Read an Article & Share with Your Peers
- Read one of the following articles, or find an academic journal article of your own.
- Share with your group or write a reflection for yourself
Consider the following prompts:
- Try thinking about the article in the context of your professional experiences and professional goals.
- What experiences have you had with Fair Use and the Public Domain in educational environments?
- In what ways have these aspects of copyright impacted your professional experiences, or how might you foresee them doing so in the future?
- Articles:
- Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Open Educational Resources: A Guide for Authors, Adapters & Adopters of Openly Licensed Teaching and Learning Materials. Licensed CC BY 4.0
- Epstein, R. A. (2002). The Dubious Constitutionality of the Copyright Term Extension Act. Loy. LAL Rev., 36, 123.
- Rillera, J. (2002). Eldred v. Ashcroft: Challenging the Constitutionality of the Copyright Term Extension Act. Vand. J. Ent. L. & Prac., 5, 23.
- Open GLAM: Open Access to Cultural Heritage, from Creative Commons.
- Bell, T. W. (2000). Escape from copyright: Market success vs. statutory failure in the protection of expressive works. U. Cin. L. Rev., 69, 741.
- “Copyright Timeline: A History of Copyright in the United States,” from the Association of Research Libraries.
