🎮 Tetris, Truth, and Copyright: Why Historical Facts Still Belong to Everyone Posted on H-Lib Copyright & Fair Use Forum | March 2025 By Kyle K. Courtney, Director of Copyright and Information Policy, Harvard Library In a recent decision with important implications for libraries, archives, museums, and educational institutions (collectively referred to here as LAMs),…
Fair Use Week 2025: Day Five With Guest Experts Katherine Klosek and Samantha Teremi
I am delighted to close out the 12th Anniversary of Fair Use Week with a post from Katherine Klosek and Samantha Teremi. In this post the authors explore how today’s contractual restrictions on AI mirror the concerns libraries raised 20 years ago during the US Copyright Office Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Section 104 study….
Fair Use Week 2025: Day Four With Guest Expert Dave Hansen
I am delighted to host Day Four of the 12th Anniversary of Fair Use Week with a write up from Dave Hansen, copyright expert and Executive Director Authors Alliance. Dave makes the case that fair use not just a right, but a crucial safeguard against copyright being weaponized for censorship, ensuring access to historical records, journalistic facts, and digital…
Fair Use Week 2025: Day Three With Guest Expert Sandra Aya Enimil
I am delighted to host Day Three of the 12th Anniversary of Fair Use Week with a write up from Sandra Aya Enimil, Director for Scholarly Communication and Collection Strategy at Yale Library. Sandra emphasizes in this post that while fair use is a critical right under U.S. copyright law, libraries may unknowingly waive these protections when…
Fair Use Week 2025: Day Two With Guest Expert Brandon Butler
I am delighted to host Day Two of the 12th Anniversary of Fair Use Week with a write up from Brandon Butler, copyright expert and Executive Director at Re:Create. While fair use is a crucial safeguard for free expression, Brandon states, its effectiveness depends on access to platforms and technologies, which are protected by copyright safe harbors like…
Fair Use Week 2025: Day One With Guest Expert Kenneth D. Crews
I am delighted to kick off the 12th Anniversary of Fair Use Week with a guest post by expert colleague and long-time friend to Fair Use Week, the international copyright authority Kenneth D. Crews. Join him in an exploration of fair use as both an essential and imperfect tool for preservation, allowing libraries, archives, and individuals to…
Fair Use Week 2024: Day Five With Guest Expert Katherine Klosek
We are wrapping up the 11th Annual Fair Use Week with a write up from Katherine Klosek, Director of Information Policy and Federal Relations at the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). Katherine reviews the developing legislative proposals attempting to mitigate “AI harm,” pointing out that the legislation might actually harm fair use and other copyright…
Fair Use Week 2024: Day Four With Guest Expert Dave Hansen
I am delighted to host Day Four of the 11th Anniversary of Fair Use Week with a write up from Dave Hansen, copyright expert and Executive Director Authors Alliance. Dave winds us through the complex relationship between AI, caselaw, and non-consumptive/non-expressive use in “Why Fair Use Supports Non-Expressive Uses.” -Kyle K. Courtney Why Fair Use Supports Non-Expressive Uses by Dave…
Fair Use Week 2024: Day Three With Guest Expert Jennie Rose Halperin
I am delighted to kick off the third day of the 11th Fair Use Week with a guest post by my colleague, friend, and fellow Library Future’er Jennie Rose Halperin. In this post she emphasizes fair use’s present challenges especially in the context of the internet and the rise of generative AI, but calls for the…
Fair Use Week 2024: Day Two With Guest Expert Brandon Butler
“Stolen Books,” Bad Faith, and Fair Use by Brandon Butler Artificial intelligence is sure to be the hottest topic of this year’s Fair Use Week, and that hotness is well-deserved. It’s startling when a machine can instantly create written or visual works that would ordinarily require a skilled human writer or artist. Fair use analysis…