Instructors: Howard Besser & Mona Jimenez
 
 

Introduction to Moving Image Archiving & Preservation H72.1800

Oct 28  Copyright, Legal Issues, & Policy

see entire syllabus

Assignments due before class :

• Read:
• Besser, Howard. Commodification of Culture Harms Creators,The Information Commons, New Technologies, and the Future of Libraries , Issue #1, June 2002, American Library Association
• Coyle, Karen. (1994) "Copyright in the Digital Age." Coyle's Information Highway Handbook. Chicago : ALA, pp. 96-113
• Mosco, Vincent. (1998) "Information in the Pay-per Society." In V. Mosco and J. Wasko (eds.), The Political Economy of Information,pp. 3-26. Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin Press
• The Coming of Copyright Perpetuity , New York Times Editorial, January 16, 2003
• The Eric Eldred Act FAQ
• Save Orphan Films
• Look over:
• University of Texas Crash Course in Copyright
• NYU Handbook for Use of Copyrighted Materials
• Consortium of College and University Media Centers 1996 Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia  (contraversial)

• What are some of the practices with regard to copyright, ownership, licensing, and the use of "talent" or footage that are part of the history of a particular form of production or genre of work?
• What are some of the recent or anticipated changes in the legal arena that affect moving image/sound preservation or use?
• Effects of copyright on preservation and programming
• Avoidance of intellectual property issues
• Fair Use guidelines

• How do intellectual property issues affect preservation, access, and use of visual materials ? (e.g., the implications of the digital millennium copyright act?

• Complexity of underlying rights
• Other legal issues
• Policy issues

Agenda

• Orphans update
• Cataloging & Indexing
• tension btwn preservation & access
• Moving Image Collections (MIC) -- general information
• Copyright Issues
• What is Copyright?
• Copyright & Moving Image Material
• Copyright & educational material
• Eldred Act
• Strategies for avoiding/dealing with copyright issues
• Current Events
• Copyright
• With Cable TV at M.I.T., Who Needs Napster?, NY Times, Oct 27, 2003
• In the News:
• Sony plans to Lay off 20,000, NY Times, Oct 28, 2003
• last week, previous week
• Upcoming events
• Tues Nov 11, Craig Baldwin at the Robert Beck

 

• Review of previous readings (if time)
• Assignments for next week