Currently, I am a web content consultant for an online publisher of legal information, but I do answer to the title “Minion.” My degrees include an MLIS from San Jose State University and a JD from Santa Clara University School of Law. I tend to put silly titles on my business cards, such as “Information Bounty Hunter” and “Info Diva”. However, I am very serious about information policy, including topics such as Internet speech, online privacy, media law and regulation, government transparency and the ethics of information retrieval in a Web 2.0 world. You’re at my blog and can see my Twitter account from here, as well. Thank you for dropping by.
Julian Sanchez loves the librarians!!
Check out the link he sent over.. http://vimeo.com/11399383
Great meeting you at the conf.
Sheila
Copyright/fair use question for you….We are going to a video on demand system and would like to import our current DVD’s and videotapes. Are we violating copyright/fair use by doing this? We are a k-12 setting.
Hi, Laura … apologies for the delay in getting to your question.
This is a difficult question. There was a recent controversy over UCLA setting up a streaming service for students to watch educational content – there was a threat of a lawsuit, but after taking the service down for a while, the university said it would start streaming again as of March 2010 – http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/ucla-will-resume-streaming-video-after-legal-dispute/21594
Retransmission/re-broadcast of of whole, copyrighted material is typically not a fair use, but since you’re an educational institution, it becomes a question of whether the TEACH Act covers your proposed activity. You may want to contact someone in your state’s school library association who’s deals with copyright issues, or perhaps ALA’s Copyright Advisory Network, with more detail. Hope this helps.
I have two datasets. One is copyrighted and the other is public domain. Can I query the copyrighted data to select out information from the public domain dataset and keep that data in the public domain? I would only query against the copyrighted data, I would not keep it or use its attributes to update the public domain data.
Hello! I browsed the site of Stanford- http://fairuse.stanford.edu/about/
and found your blog.
I’d like to ask a question concerning re-publishing content on web sites and mobile apps.
My question is:
is it legal to embed and / or link content, pulled from external websites, within a web or mobile application, under the condition of clearly mentioning the source?
e.g. take as example the site yummly.com
they embedded information from other recipes’ sites, they clearly quote the source, but i don’t think they established a partnership with each of them, which are competitors.
Do they risk a lawsuite even if the source is clearly stated?
another example would be if an app, say for movies, include information from other websites, e.g. IMDB or youtube.
Would it be sufficient to clearly quote the source of text and trailers sourced from other websites?
I read movie trailers are copyrighted too, but they are just Ad and in principle i think there is nothing bad if they are redistributed.
Thank you for your answer!