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…
Fair Use Week 2024: Day One With Guest Expert Kenneth D. Crews
I am delighted to kick off the 11th 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 the thirtieth anniversary of one of the critical U.S. Supreme Court copyright decisions – Campbell v. Acuff-Rose…
Welcome to the new Fair Use Week blog!
Since it inception Harvard over a decade ago, Harvard Library had hosted Fair Use Week blogs from copyright experts around the world at at the original site “Copyright at Harvard Library” You can still access a decade’s worth of fair use insights, commentaries, and scholarship at that site. However, now that that the old platform…