Fair use workshop

Fair Use Workshop brainstorming

FUse Conference call

 * Feb 22 meeting notes


 * Mar 18-19 (tent), 1.5 days
 * ok with ahrash, joseph, ted, davidstern, tvol
 * maybe not anthony falzone

meeting plans and goals

 * what is the scope of involvement from cclearn and stanford?
 * how to take the load off of users so it's easy for them to navigate the content?
 * what burdens does fair use put on producers and users?
 * how to navigate sites that contain content with different licenses?
 * how do we present this in the context of cc licensing?
 * how do we mark things fair use? how do we educate?
 * carve out a minimalist fair use practice that others can also use
 * do we want to expand fair use notions?
 * we need to figure out the overall project goals
 * explore funding for the larger workshop (hewlett, macarthur)
 * decide on who to invite, which are the key players
 * refine publishing workflow to incorporate fair use correctly
 * filtering technology to strip fair use items out when course is downloaded?
 * how to fit fair use within the the dscribe workflow?
 * but be able to explain how supporting fair use is aligned with other michigan projects and others doing fair use
 * we want to set up a roadmap for umich
 * how to build the infrastructure afterwards, including workflow and software revisions
 * better understanding for michigan folks of what the law is
 * show the workflow that we've created and examine the correct interjection points for fair use analysis
 * understanding of the risks and ways to mitigate
 * proposed meeting participants (mar 18-19)
 * ted hanss
 * david stern
 * jack bernard?
 * joseph hardin
 * timothy vollmer
 * pieter kleymeer
 * garin fons
 * ahrash bissell
 * anthony falzone?

to do

 * pull together papers, documents, use cases that can help frame the workshop (tvol)
 * aggregate possible fair use slides/content objects from endocrine sequence (tvol)
 * investigate funding options (jhardin)
 * make a list of reasons why we would do fair use in the med school (tvol)
 * explore fair use policies at national digital science library and PLoS (tvol)
 * we need to develop a short document to say what projects movers on fair use issues
 * examples of fair uses in educational contexts
 * nation covers, life covers
 * create dscribe manual
 * screenshots of websites
 * use dan klyn's class as a good fair use example
 * this is exactly what henry jenkins is talking about
 * we need to come up with a logo for “fair use”
 * FUse

FUse Workshop

 * mid-April
 * create simple website or wiki from it?
 * white paper or summary report?


 * potential workshop participants (in addition to the above)
 * molly kleinman (UM Library IP Specialist)
 * paul newman (UM Library IP Specialist)
 * susan kornfield (IP attorney)
 * lindsey weeramuni (MIT OCW IP Specialist)
 * david wiley (USU OCW)
 * julie lindner (eff)
 * fred von lohman (eff)
 * cindy cohn (eff)
 * steve mcdonald (general counsel, rhode island school of design)
 * georgia harper (general counsel, university of texas system)
 * jessica litman (um law school)
 * molly van houweling (uc berkeley law &amp; cc board)
 * pat aufderheide (center for social media)
 * MIT's attorney (tba)

workshop notes

 * capture proceeding and share online
 * wikipedia fair use rationale, media examples, documentation
 * center for social media fair use best practices in documentary film, user generated content
 * henry jenkins @ MIT

Resources

 * http://w2.eff.org/IP/eff_fair_use_faq.php
 * http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/fair_use/
 * http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/terms/terms/index.htm
 * http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/mit5/subs/MiT5_plenary3.html
 * http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/taxonomy/term/374
 * http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/forums/news_and_networks.html
 * http://www.ocwconsortium.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=24&amp;Itemid=58
 * http://www.is2k7.org/wiki/index.php?title=Working_Groups
 * http://www.hastac.org/node/657
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-free_content
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-free_use_rationale_guideline
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Fair_use
 * http://www.eff.org/issues/ip-and-free-speech/fair-use-principles-usergen
 * http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/16/830/index.html
 * http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/news/medialit_report_release/