Compact Copyright: Quick Answers to Common Questions

by Sara Benson

Overview

Included in Choice's Top 75 Titles and Resources for Community College Libraries

Faculty, students, and colleagues come to you with copyright questions, both simple and complex. And they all want reliable answers—as fast as you can get them. With this guide, designed for ready access, you’ll be prepared to deliver. Lawyer, copyright librarian, and iSchool instructor Benson presents succinct explanations ideal for both on-the-fly reference and staff training. Copyright specialists will appreciate excerpts from the law itself alongside tools and resources for digging deeper. Practical discussions of key legal concepts, illustrated using 52 scenarios, will lead you to fast, accurate answers on a range of topics, such as

• barriers to using the TEACH Act provisions in content for online teaching;
• showing a full-length movie in a university class;
• public domain and the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act;
• your legal options when receiving a DMCA take-down notice;
• court interpretations of fair use in three key recent cases;
• Creative Commons licenses, complete with a quick reference chart;
• library rights to license photographs in a digital collection;
• using letters under copyright in a special collections display case;
• a grad student’s right to use in a thesis writing published in their professor’s journal article;
• applying the implied license option to post historical student dissertations in institutional repositories;
• the Marrakesh Treaty provision supporting transfer of accessible works internationally; and
• limiting factors for interlibrary loan.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780838937563
Publisher:	American Library Association
Publication date:	09/24/2021
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	(w) x (h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Sara R. Benson is the copyright librarian and an assistant professor at the Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She holds a JD from the University of Houston Law Center, an LLM from Boalt Hall School of Law at Berkeley, and an MSLIS from the School of Information Science at the University of Illinois. Prior to joining the library, Sara was a lecturer at the University of Illinois College of Law for ten years. Sara is the host of the Podcast ©hat (“Copyright Chat”) available on iTunes.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xi

1 Copyright Basics 1

2 The First Sale Doctrine 13

3 The Public Domain 17

4 Making Copies for Preservation 33

5 Interlibrary Loan and Unsupervised Patron Copying 39

6 Access to Copyrighted Material for Patrons with Disabilities 47

7 Face-to-Face Teaching versus Public Performance Rights 53

8 The TEACH Act 59

9 Noncommercial Performance of Nondramatic Literary or Musical Works 67

10 Fair Use 71

11 The Digital Millennium Copyright Act Circumvention Provisions 87

12 The Digital Millennium Copyright Act Notice and Takedown Provisions 101

13 Select International Copyright Library Issues 115

14 The Implied License Doctrine 123

15 Sovereign Immunity 127

16 Copyright Metadata and Rights Statements 131

17 Controlled Digital Lending 139

18 Creative Commons Licensing 143

Appendixes

Appendix A Fair Use Checklist 149

Appendix B Copyright and Film Screening Best Practices 153

Appendix C Additional Recommended Reading and Materials 155

Index 157

Editorial Reviews

"The book really is, as Benson says, 'like having an at-your-fingertips copyright expert sitting by your side.' The volume is expertly organized into easily navigable chapters ... Librarians will find value in this work, whether they treat it as a reference or read it cover to cover."
— Library Journal

"An accessible work that should be included in every academic library’s collection. From her efficient organization to her easy-to-understand explanations, Benson does everything right ... Even those with little or no copyright knowledge will feel more confident after reading it."
— Choice

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