ACRL Media Resources Discussion Group (MRDG): Documents List

ACRL Media Resources Discussion Group (MRDG): Documents List MRDG in ALA Connect: http://connect.ala.org/node/66341

CATHY MICHAEL, COMMUNICATION & LEGAL STUDIES, ITHACA COLLEGE Cathy Michael’s delicious tags: http://delicious.com/tag/MRDG One of Cathy’s guides: “TVR 30500: Digital Media Law”. http://www.ithacalibrary.com/sp/subjects/dml Her blog: http://comlaw.wordpress.com/

LIBRARY ORGANIZATIONAL REPORTS AND NEWS ACRL “ACRL Legislative Agenda 2011”. http://www.ala.org/acrl/issues/washingtonwatch/11agenda. "ACRL’s Legislative Agenda includes objectives for legislative action at the national level on issues that affect the welfare of academic and research libraries" Copyright Policies. CLIP note #39. Chicago: College Library Information Packet Committee, College Libraries Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, 2008. http://phoebe.ithaca.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=453136. Neal, J., and Mueller, D. “Fair Use is Not Civil Disobedience: Rethinking the Copyright Wars and the Role of the Academic Library - Academic Commons.” Columbia University Academic Commons, http://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:134484. Presented at ACRL’s 2011 Conference. VRT “Copyright Best Practices for Media Librarians Working Meeting VRT.” ALA Connect, http://connect.ala.org/node/163322. This guide is modeled after the ones created by the Center for Social Media. “Digital Media Discussion Group (VRT).” ALA Connect, Online. Internet. http://connect.ala.org/node/163276. This Round Table DG is like this one but focused on video. ALA, ARL, IFLA, LOC, etc. ALA Emerging Issues. “Wikileaks.” http://www.emergingissues.ala.org/wikileaks/. Forum for hot topics. “Association of Research Libraries (ARL): Copyright & Intellectual Property Policies”, http://www.arl.org/pp/ppcopyright/index.shtml “Copyright Advisory Network”, http://librarycopyright.net/wordpress/ “A community of librarians, copyright scholars, policy wonks.” “Copyright Priorities Announced.” News Releases (Library of Congress), http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2011/11- 204.html. The US Copyright Office published on October 25, 2011 a report called, "Priorities and Special Projects of the United States Copyright Office: October 2011-October 2013." “Copyright Renewal Database.” Stanford University: Libraries and Academic Information Resources . Available: http://collections.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/bin/page?forward=home. From the website: "This database makes searchable the copyright renewal records received by the US Copyright Office between 1950 and 1992 for books published in the US between 1923 and 1963" “District Dispatch”(ALA Washington Office). http://www.districtdispatch.org/ Contains "News for friends of libraries from the ALA Washington Office." Their latest update is the PIPA, SOPA and OPEN Act Quick Reference guide. “EQUACC: Presidential Task Force on Equitable Access to Electronic Content”, Available: http://www.equacc.ala.org/. This ALA Task Force met in New Orleans to discuss access to library e-content. Forsberg, W., and Bessler, H. “VIDEO AT RISK: Strategies for Preserving Commercial Video Collections in Research Libraries.” Moving Image Archiving and Preservation | M.A. Degree Program, http://www.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/video-risk/. Comments to the draft were submitted Fall 2011. Forsberg and Besser are working on a study from a Mellon Foundation-funded grant, to better define the conditions where copyright can be used to preserve VHS tapes. Hirtle, P. “Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States” http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm. “International Coalition of Library Consortia”, http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia/ Umbrella organization of library consortia. There is a list of statements on their site on consortial licenses, Google Books, etc. Jenenmann, L. and Price, G. D. “Conf. Paper: ‘Public Performance Rights Management in Academic Libraries’.” INFOdocket, May 30, 2011. http://infodocket.com/2011/08/07/conf-paper-public-performance-rights-management- in-academic-libraries/. “Library Copyright Alliance”, http://www.librarycopyrightalliance.org/index.shtml. The alliance includes ALA, ACRL and ARL. They produced a report called "Library Copyright alliance statement on Copyright Reform" in response to the Google Book Settlement, May 16, 2011 Morrison, H. “Wikileaks: a library issue? Information Policy Committee Virtual Salon.” BCLA Browser 3, no. 3 (2011). Price, G. D. “Report from ALA’s OITP eBook Task Force Meeting With HarperCollins by Peter Brantley.” INFOdocket, June 29, 2011. http://infodocket.com/2011/06/29/report-from-alas-oitp-ebook-task-force-meeting-with- harpercollins-by-peter-brantley/. Smith, Kevin. “Scholarly Communications @ Duke”, http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/. Smith, with his legal knowledge offers sage analysis of issues not just to Duke but all library readers. “Section 108 Study Group. http://www.section108.gov/ The Study Group was convened as an independent group by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation program of the Library of Congress and by the U.S. Copyright Office

GOVERNMENT INFORMATION Favorite resources: FDsys, LexisNexis & Thomas US Copyright Office “U.S. Copyright Office”, http://www.copyright.gov/ “Information Circulars, Factsheets, and FLs.” U.S. Copyright Office, http://www.copyright.gov/circs/ “Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies - 1201 Comments.” U.S. Copyright Office, http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2011/initial/ Federal Communication Commission “FCC.gov (Federal Communication Commission)”, http://www.fcc.gov/ “Consumer Fact Sheets.” FCC.gov, http://transition.fcc.gov/wcb/consumer_facts.html. “Twenty First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act.” FCC.gov, http://www.fcc.gov/guides/21st- century-communications-and-video-accessibility-act-2010. “The Communicators | C-SPAN”, http://www.c-span.org/Series/The-Communicators/ C-SPAN is a service of cable so it is not a Gov Doc but they interview many government and industry officials. Bills and laws H.R.3261 - Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.uscongress/legislation.112hr3261 S.968 – Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011 (PROTECT IP Act), http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.uscongress/legislation.112s968. S.2029 - Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act (OPEN Act), http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.uscongress/legislation.112s2029. “United States Code, 2006 Edition, Supplement 4, Title 17 - COPYRIGHTS.” GPO: U.S. Government Printing Office: FDsys: Federal Digital System, http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/search/pagedetails.action? browsePath=Title+17&granuleId=&packageId=USCODE-2010-title17&collapse=true&fromBrowse=true. “Digital Millennium Copyright Act.” Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act. There is a convenient list of the codification of the Act in the sidebar. Cases (try PACER for undecided cases. Settlement agreements are not always accessible in full).  Association for Information Media & Equipment (AIME) v. Regents of the Univ. of Ca., No. CV 10-09378 CBM (MANx) (C.D. Ca. filed Dec. 7, 2010). Order Granting Motion to Dismiss. Retrieved from: Scholarly Communication @ Duke: http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2011/10/04/streaming-video-case- dismissed/  Authors Guild v. Google, Inc., 770 F. Supp. 2d 66 (S.D.N.Y. 2011, March 22, 2011). Judge Chin did not approve the Google Books Settlement. See: Google Book Settlement: http://www.googlebooksettlement.com/agreement.html  The Authors Guild, Inc. v. Hathitrust, No. 1:2011 CV 06351 (S.D.N.Y. filed Sept. 12, 2011). See ARL’s statement: http://www.arl.org/news/pr/lca_agvhathi_14sept11.shtml  John Wiley & Sons, Inc. v. Kirtsaeng, 645 F.3d 210 (2nd Cir. 2011) Michael Kelley (Library Journal, 1/6/2012) just reported on the appeal of this right of first sale case. Kirtsaeng had his family in Korea send him “cheaper foreign editions of Wiley textbooks, printed by Wiley Asia, that he then resold on eBay for a profit.”  New York Times v. Tasini, 533 U.S. 482 (2001). See Oyez: http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000- 2009/2000/2000_00_201  Reed Elsevier, Inc. v. Muchnick, 130 S. Ct. 1237, 176 L. Ed. 2d 18, 2010 U.S. LEXIS 2202 (U.S., 2010). This regards a class action suit for unregistered authors & the jurisdiction of the settlement agreement. See Oyez: http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2009/2009_08_103

ORGANIZATIONS Advocacy Groups “Creative Commons”, http://creativecommons.org/ “Electronic Frontier Foundation.” Electronic Frontier Foundation, https://www.eff.org/. “EPIC - Electronic Privacy Information Center”, http://epic.org/ “Fair Use.” American University, School of Communication, Center for Social Media, http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use. “Public Knowledge | Fighting for your digital rights in Washington.”, http://www.publicknowledge.org/. “SaveTheInternet.com | Why Is the Media Ignoring SOPA?” freepress, January 10, 2012. http://act2.freepress.net/sign/media_sopa/?akid=3193.9267694.rxCQh8&rd=1&t=3 “Secrecy News”, http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/ College & University Centers “Digital Policy Institute » Digital Daily Dozen”: http://digitalpolicyinstitute.com/ddd/ Dom Caristi of Ball State, Digital Policy Institute, sends out a Digital Daily Dozen. It is an excellent round up of news. “Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke Law School”, http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/index. “Media Law Prof Blog”, http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/media_law_prof_blog/. Blog by Christine A. Corcus, Associate Professor of Law, Louisiana State University. “The Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property.” American University Washington College of Law: http://www.wcl.american.edu/pijip/webcast.cfm Trade Associations “American Society of Journalists and Authors”, http://www.asja.org/ “The Authors Guild”, http://www.authorsguild.org/advocacy.html “The Association of American Publishers”, http://www.publishers.org/issues/1/. “AIME - Association for Information Media and Equipment”, http://www.aime.org/ “International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition”, https://iacc.org/ “Motion Picture Association of America”, http://www.mpaa.org/ “National Writers Union”, http://www.nwu.org/ “RIAA - Recording Industry Association of America” http://www.riaa.com TRADE NEWS & ARTICLES Create Alerts (by RSS or email) Inside Higher Ed / Blog U, “Law, Policy -- and IT?.” http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/law-policy-and-it. JD Supra Legal News, Updates, Analysis, & Information, “Intellectual Property Law.” http://www.jdsupra.com/law- news/ip-law/. Library Journal Academic Newswire: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/newsletters/ paidContent, “Media & Publishing”: http://paidcontent.org/topic/media-publishing/ Sample Articles Gardner, E. “U.S. Government Mulls Changes to Copyright Rules (Analysis) - Hollywood Reporter.” Hollywood, Esq., October 27, 2011. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/us-government-mulls-changes-copyright-254246? utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Compose - new_daily_headlines_500px_102711_(1) (1)&utm_content=. Hansen, David Robert. “Orphan Works: Definitional Issues.” SSRN eLibrary (December 19, 2011). http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1974614 Hansen, David Robert. “A State Law Approach to Preserving Fair Use in Academic Libraries,” 22 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 1 (Fall, 2011). Kelley, M. “ALA President Criticizes HarperCollins Ebook Lending Policy.” LibraryJounal.com, March 15, 2011. http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/889672-264/ala_president_criticizes_harpercollins_ebook.html.csp. Kelley, M. “Major Copyright Case Against UCLA Dismissed.” LibraryJournal.com, October 4, 2011. http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/892274-264/major_copyright_case_against_ucla.html.csp. “Library Trends.” Project MUSE 58, no. 3 (Winter 2010). http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/library_trends/toc/lib.58.3.html. Malczewski, B. “Still Loading | AV Spotlight on Streaming Video: As the format wars progress, discs still dominate while streaming searches for a delivery model.” LibraryJournal.com, November 15, 2011. http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/892497-264/still_loading__av_spotlight.html.csp. Mitchell, J. N. “Promoting Progress with Fair Use.” Duke Law Journal 60, no. 7 (April 2011).

BOOKS Armatas, S. A. Distance Learning and Copyright: A Guide to Legal Issues. 1st ed. Chicago: American Bar Association, 2008. Aufderheide, P. Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright. Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. See also: the Center for Social Media’s website, American University. Butler, R. P. Copyright for Teachers & Librarians in the 21st Century. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2011. Crews, K. D. Copyright Law for Librarians and Educators: Creative Strategies and Practical Solutions. 2nd ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 2006. Donaldson, Michael C. Clearance & Copyright: Everything You Need to Know for Film and Television. vols. 3rd ed. Los Angeles: Silman-James Press, 2008. Fishman, Stephen. The Copyright Handbook: What Every Writer Needs to Know. vols. 11th ed. Berkeley, CA: Nolo, 2011. Fishman, Stephen. The Public Domain: How to Find & Use Copyright-Free Writings, Music, Art & More. vols. 5th ed. Berkeley, Calif: Nolo, 2010. Fisk, Nathan W. Digital Piracy. vols. Cybersafety. New York, NY: Chelsea House, 2011. Hobbs, R., and National Council of Teachers of English. Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Corwin, 2010. Lessig, L. Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. New York: Penguin Press, 2008. McLeod, Kembrew. Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling. vols. Durham [NC]: Duke University Press, 2011. Solove, Daniel J. Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security. vols. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 2011. Solove has written many books on information privacy. This is his latest. Stim, Richard. Getting Permission: How to License & Clear Copyrighted Materials, Online & Off. vols. 4th ed. Berkeley, Calif: Nolo, 2010 Tehranian, J. Infringement Nation: Copyright 2.0 and You. New York. N. Y: Oxford University Press, 2011.