TechTalks Event
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
with Laura Gasaway, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill�
October 7, 1999
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Looming on higher education's horizon, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act could represent the first rays of a bright new day or a wayward meteor shower on a collision course. Do you know enough about the Act? What does this Act change? Which digital media does it affect? Does it cover storage, display, printing, transmission, etc.? How does the Act affect our copyright clearance procedures? What happens to "fair use?" Do we really need a new copyright law? How might network managers become liable?
There isn't a part of the Academy this proposed law might not affect. Listen to CREN's experts at your desktop and email your questions to them at expert@cren.net.
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Guest Expert
Widely
renowned as a leading expert on the relationship of intellectual
property with higher education, Laura N. Gasaway, joined
the faculty of the UNC-Chapel
Hill School of Law in 1985 as director
of the law library and professor of law. She was law library
director at the University of Oklahoma from 1975 to 1984, where
she directed and taught in the law school's foreign program at Queen's
College, Oxford, England for three summers. She is a past president
of the American Association of Law Libraries and is active in the
Special Libraries Association. She received the SLA's John Cotton
Dana award in 1987 and was named a fellow of the association in
1988.
Co-Hosts
Howard Strauss, Manager of Academic Applications at Princeton
University, is TechTalk's Technology Anchor.
Co-Host Judith Boettcher is CREN's Executive Director.
Together, Howard and Judith will ask the really tough questions—and
relay the questions you email to them at expert@cren.net.
Background & Resources
- The most recent previous Tech Talk session in this area is Intellectual Property & Other IT Legal Issues with Margie Hodges Shaw and Steve Worona. It's archived (audio and transcript) for your perusal.
- The Association of Research Libraries provides this useful Status and Analysis about the DMCA.
- Here is Laura's testimony about the Act before the House Judiciary Committee on behalf of a large group of higher education associations.
- Here's a recent article by Laura in The Journal of Library Services for Distance Education on Distance Education and Copyright.
- CAUSE/EFFECT recently published this pertinent article entitled What Colleges and Universities Need to Know about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by Casey Lide.
- The Consortium for Educational Technology in University Systems maintains this electronic pamphlet: Fair Use of Copyrighted Works.
- EDUCAUSE maintains the DMCA as one of its Current Issues.
- The University of Texas System provides this useful summary of some pertinent issues:
- Complying with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act - Making Digital Copies in the Library and the UT System also provides a Crash Course in Copyright.
- The Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Copyright Center is a great place to start any online search for information.
- The State University of New York at Albany and Stanford University also provide compilations of information useful to those seeking to understand current and changing laws.
- Libraries and Copyright : A Guide to Copyright Law in the 1990s and
- Growing Pains : Adapting Copyright for Libraries, Education, and Society.
