Wednesday, July 18, 2012
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Registration for main conference
1:00 – 1:30 p.m. Welcome and opening remarks
1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Copyright Law Basics – Setting the Stage
Copyright issues can be thorny when applied in a traditional university setting, but they become even more complex in a digital environment. In order to apply copyright to both digital and print environments, it’s critical to have a basic understanding of copyright law, ownership, use, and risk management — all to be discussed throughout the conference.
3:00 – 3:15 p.m. Break
Section 1: Use
These conference sessions will discuss fair use and its application in the academic setting. We’ll explore statutory provisions related to the educational use of copyrighted materials. We’ll offer practical guidance regarding the current status of fair use, including relevant guidelines and recent case law. We’ll discuss specific situations — performance, classroom, distance education, face-to-face courses — where fair use may be applied, and the impact on your policies.
3:15 – 4:45 p.m. Fair Use
Fair use is the limitation on copyright that is intended to be flexible and allow for adaptation, experimentation and innovation. This flexibility offers a great advantage, in concert with the more specific copyright exceptions, but it also presents a significant challenge as librarians try to apply fair use. We will examine the fair use provision and its application by the courts in order to provide strategies for meeting those challenges.
5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Networking reception (included in registration)
Thursday, July 19, 2012
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Continental breakfast (included in registration)
9:00 – 10:30 a.m. Classroom Performances
How copyright and fair use laws apply to teaching in face-to-face and online environments is not always clear, and the ease of copying and distributing digital materials is increasing. We’ll discuss the implications of copyright for live and online classroom settings, and the adjustments you’ll need to make when moving a face-to-face class to an online environment.
10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Section 108: Reproductions by Libraries and Archives
Section 108 of the copyright law is one of the limitations on the exclusive rights of copyright owners, specifically for libraries and archives. Section 108 is structured as a series of rules and conditions that libraries and archives can apply to making copies for patrons, for preservation purposes, for replacing damaged copies, for interlibrary loan, and a few other exceptions. We’ll explore how to successfully and confidently apply Section 108, and its relationship to Section 107 and fair use.
12:00 – 1:15 p.m. Lunch (included in registration)
Section 2: Ownership
Academic institutions have traditionally shown little interest in copyrights to the materials produced by their faculty and staff, but with the rise of the digital environment and the onset of online courses, the landscape has changed. Copyright ownership is now a major issue, and increasingly, a major controversy on campuses.
In this section of the conference, we’ll explore the variety of copyrighted materials produced in academic settings – digital materials, courses, performances, and paintings, to name a few – and discuss creating an ownership policy, writing publication contracts, open access, and campus publishing.
1:15 – 2:45 p.m. Principles of Ownership
Congratulations — you own a copyright! Now what? We’ll explore what rights do — and don’t — come along with that copyright, the various ways in which it can be owned, and the basics of how and when its ownership can be exercised or transferred.
2:45 – 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 – 4:15 p.m. Publication Contracts and Open Access
Open access stands in stark contrast to traditional academic publishing where copyright is transferred from the author to an academic institution. This session will explore ownership and authorship in academic settings, the method and manner in which ownership may vary and be changed, and the legal rights of owners and authors. The work-for-hire doctrine and its relationship to copyright will also be discussed.
4:15 – 5:15 p.m. Licensing
Based on conference discussions thus far, you’ll have become familiar with a broad range of higher education ownership and licensing issues. This session will help you formulate strategies to identify where licensing is taking place on your campus and how to address the impact of ownership and licensing in your policies.
Friday, July 20, 2012
8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Continental breakfast (included in registration)
Section 3: Policy and Risk Management
The importance of copyright compliance at your institution may be reflected in your annual budgets, as the costs of copyright risk management are often hidden and scattered across line items. For example, your license with Microsoft for access to the Office suite for your students, faculty, and staff is copyright risk management. Your infrastructure for responding to the Recording Industry Association of America’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act notices of infringing works found on your network constitutes risk management. Risk management also includes your licenses to databases of art history and architecture images, your legal review of software and database contracts, and your infrastructure for assessing which of your faculty’s thousands of course readings require permission each semester and which are licensed or are fair use, often requiring getting and paying for needed permissions. All of this is expensive and needs to be managed properly. In this section, we’ll discuss steps you can take to effectively manage your copyright risks.
9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Using a Risk Management Model to Develop Policy
What can you do when the only answer your lawyer ever gives you is, “It depends.”? Much of copyright law does fall within the proverbial “gray area,” but that’s not necessarily a bad thing — in fact, it’s a good one. Learn how a risk management approach can help you make intelligent, reasonable, and ultimately defensible choices about how to proceed in the face of uncertainty.
10:15 – 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Rights Management and Strategies
Producers of copyrighted content often use DRM to restrict access to a work. The desire to control access and use often conflicts with educators’ needs to disseminate material and to use it in teaching and research. At the same time, colleges and universities may want to use DRM to protect their own works, and may sometimes be required by law to use DRM when distributing the works of others. This session will address risk management issues, such as the impact of DRM on fair use and anti-circumvention protection for DRM systems and legal/policy alternatives.
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Closing Plenary/Next Steps
OPTIONAL POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch for post-conference workshop attendees (included in workshop registration)
1:00 – 4:00 p.m. Optional post-conference workshop: Contract Formation and Negotiation
Faculty, staff, and librarians are continuously faced with copyright and IP problems in their teaching, research, daily work, ownership, and termination. Regardless of how well an institutional copyright/IP contract is drafted, there may be disputes regarding its intention, meaning, validity, and enforceability from grantor. This post-conference workshop will offer hands-on exercises to develop appropriate language in copyright/IP contract formulation and negotiation.
Follow AI
Conference
Share This Page: