I am delighted to announce the 3rd Annual Fair Use Week! This is an opportunity for the community to celebrate the fair use doctrine, which “facilitate[s] balance in copyright law, promoting further progress and accommodating freedom of speech and expression.” When I launched the “beta” Fair Use Week in 2014, it…
The Copyright Office and the Orphan Works Report: Top Three Problems
I have been quiet on this blog for a while now. Someone recently told me at ALA Annual (in San Francisco) that I should be writing down and saving some of my “scorch the earth” type copyright analysis (read: rant?). I decided yes, you are right. And yes, I should…
Launching the 2nd Annual Fair Use Week
I am honored and delighted to celebrate the 2nd Annual Fair Use Week! What started as an idea generated from supporters of ARL’s Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries, launched as my “beta-test Fair Use Week” here at Harvard last year, has now become…
Open Access at Harvard: An Evening with Peter Suber and Kyle Courtney | Harvard Alumni Association
This summer I had the pleasure of co-presenting to a group of Harvard alums, at the invitation of the Harvard Alumni Association. If you are interested in the “Top 5 Things” I am advocating for including my work with libraries, copyright law, MOOC’s, orphan works, digital first sale, and open access,…
Library Launches Copyright First Responders Program
Below is the latest from Harvard Library communication on my beta program for copyright and libraries. I developed the Copyright First Responders program with one thing in mind: Librarians should be the front lines of copyright expertise. A brief survey I did a few years ago revealed that the Library…
Copyright, Licensing, and the Publishers: Four MOOC Syllabus Strategies
In the traditional educational system, the library often serves as the place for course reserves or materials provided to students for their independent use in conjunction with the course. Sometimes these are in print; more recently they are available electronically through content management systems. When we move a course to…
One More MOOC Post: Copyright, Licensing, and the Publishers
Since it is the Year of the MOOC (or was that last year?) I figured I’d post my thoughts and strategies on working with publishers to grant MOOC’s what they often need: textbooks, books, readings, etc. Much of classroom pedagogy relies on the read & lecture model. MOOCs have made…
The 2013 Hack IP Challenge
I helped organize the first Hack IP Challenge that introduces students to a “live” intellectual property (IP) challenge facing Harvard University: Thousands of users have already registered for edX/HarvardX, the free online education platform launched in 2012 in partnership with MIT. Courses offered range from the popular Intro to Computer…
New site, new friends
After an eternity in limbo, I am happy to launch this site parallel to some “nice press” about my work from the Library Journal. For those of you that do not know, Cheryl LaGuardia, Research Librarian extraordinaire, is also the columnist for the wildly popular Library Journal column (and aptly named) “Not Dead Yet.” She is an excellent colleague…