Collins Library Links: Updates on Fair Use, Image Rights and Open Access

Updates on Fair Use, Image Rights and Open Access

Below is a compilation of recent articles that address access to information.   

Fair Use & Image Rights:

• Artists’ 3-D scan of the Nefertiti bust opens up debates about originality, copyright, and restitution:

o   Voon, Claire. “Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free
Online.” Hyperallergic, February 19, 2016.

o   Wilder, Charly. “Swiping a Priceless Antiquity … With a Scanner and a 3-D Printer.” New York Times, March 1, 2016.

o   This 2015 article raises many points on 3-D scanning: Lee, Edward, Jennifer L. Roberts, Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento, Allyson Vieira, and Alexander Provan. “The End of the Image: Copy of an Original of a Copy.” Triple Canopy, April 10, 2015.

• Cox, Krista. “Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2016 Highlights Balance in Copyright System.”
  ARL News, March 1, 2016.
• Linares, Mayra. “Fair Use Question of the Month: Images for Online and Print Journal.” CMSI Blog, February 25, 2016.
• Scheid, Maria. “Google Launches YouTube Fair Use Protection Program.”
  OSU Libraries Copyright Corner, February 22, 2016.

Open Access:

• Bach, Becky. “Open Access Critical for Exchange of Research, Stanford Professor Argues.”  Scope, March 15, 2016.
• Murphy, Kate. “Should All Research Papers Be Free?” New York Times, March 12, 2016.
• Samson, Natalie. “Standing Out in the World of Scholarly Publishing: Ingenuity’s the Key When You’re One of Canada’s Smaller University Presses.” University Affairs/Affaires Universitaires, March 9, 2016.

Intellectual Freedom, Access to Information:

• Greenspan, Sam. “The Giftschrank.” 99% Invisible, March 8, 2016.
• Schmidt, Peter. “Protecting Student Journalist in a New-Media Era.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 11, 2016.

Privacy:

• Choose Privacy Week, May 1-6, 2016.
• Committee on Copyright and Other Legal Matters. “IFLA issues Statement on Right to be Forgotten.” News from CLM, February 25, 2016.
• “Demand for Apple Encryption Tool Threatens Library Users’ Privacy.” ALA News, February 26, 2016.
• “FCC Chair: Proposal Would Let Consumers Determine Value of Internet Privacy.” All Things Considered, March 16, 2016.
• Smith, Matthew Noah. “An iPhone Is an Extensions of the Mind.” Slate, February 29, 2016.

(information courtesy of Art Libraries Society of North American Public Policy Committee)