Fair Use and a Baby Dancing in a Kitchen

This is a guest post by Dànielle Nicole DeVoss, author of the article  “Academia, Academe, and Intellectual Property” in the new November-December 2015 issue of Academe. She is a professor of professional writing at Michigan State University and the 2015–16 junior chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication Intellectual Property Caucus. A while back, I was mad. Incensed…

Who Owns Your Syllabus?

An interesting court decision involving faculty intellectual property came down last week.  The Missouri Court of Appeals Western District ruled on August 26 that The University of Missouri System does not have to release course syllabi because they are protected by copyright laws.  The ruling upheld a previous lower court decision.  According to the appeals…

House Hearings on Intellectual Property and the Internet and the Issues Related to “Fair Use”: Part 5, Kurt Wimmer’s Testimony

Kurt Wimmer General Counsel Newspaper Association of America   January 28, 2014 Chairman Goodlatte, Chairman Coble, Ranking Member Conyers, and members of the Subcommittee, good afternoon and thank you for the opportunity to appear before you to discuss the scope of “fair use” under the Copyright Act. My name is Kurt Wimmer. I am privileged…

House Hearings on Intellectual Property and the Internet and the Issues Related to “Fair Use”: Part 3, David Lowery’s Testimony

David Lowery Singer | Songwriter Lecturer, Terry College of Business University of Georgia January 28, 2014 I. Introduction Chairman Goodlatte, Chairman Coble, Ranking Member, and Members of the Subcommittee, My name is David Lowery and I am a mathematician, writer, musician, producer and entrepreneur based in Richmond, VA and Athens, GA. While studying mathematics at the University…

House Hearings on Intellectual Property and the Internet and the Issues Related to “Fair Use”: Part 2, Peter Jaszi’s Testimony

Professor Peter Jaszi Washington College of Law American University Washington, D.C.   January 28, 2014   FAIR USE NOW   I teach copyright law at the American University law school here in DC. For last decade or so, most of my work as a scholar, an activist and (occasionally) a litigator has focused on the…

“Open Textbook Publishing”

When Joe Moxley first published Writing Commons, an online textbook, the copyright (as is common) was held by his publisher, Pearson. After five years, their ownership of the work ended and the copyright belonged to Moxley again. He realized that he now had a number of interesting options for the future of his work. After…