News from the City Tech Library
Fair Use Week 2024 runs from Feb. 26 to March 1.
Fair use helps balance the rights of a copyright owner with our right to reuse copyrighted materials to create new works. It is an aspect of copyright law that applies not only to creators and authors but also to faculty and students. Fair use touches everyone! Here are two infographics to introduce you to fair use:
“Fair Use Fundamentals” by Association of Research Libraries is licensed under CC BY 4.0
Harvard Libraries’ Copyright at Harvard Library blog is posting an interesting, in-depth article every day for Fair Use Week.
Here’s a great infographic about Fair Use: fair-use-myths-and-facts-infographic-feb2017.
The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty and staff to a workshop. Do you know how copyright and fair use applies to web-based teaching? Are you interested in making material available to students online? Learn about the tools and guidelines available for your use.
Our workshop will be held on Wednesday February 19, 1-2pm in Rm. A441 in the Library, Atrium 4th Fl. RSVP to Prof. Bronwen Densmore at bdensmore@citytech.cuny.edu.
The City Tech Library, in partnership with the Faculty Commons, is pleased to invite all faculty to a library workshop. Do you know how copyright and fair use applies to online courses, class blogs and other web-based teaching tools? Are you interested in making material available to students online, but aren’t sure how to do so legally? Do you have questions about intellectual property and the responsibilities and rights that you and your students have when posting class work online? In this workshop we’ll discuss these issues and look at some of the tools and guidelines available for your use.
This workshop will be held on Wednesday, October 12, 1-2pm in Rm. A540 (library classroom). RSVP to Prof. Maura Smale at msmale@citytech.cuny.edu or 260-5748.
Copyright, designed to protect the legal rights of creators of ideas, texts, images and other media, can be confusing, and fair use of materials for educational purposes can be difficult to assess. A new guide to fair use of all types of media for education was released earlier this month by the Center for Social Media at American University, created in consultation with a legal advisory team. “The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education” explains the issues in a concise and lucid manner, and is available in its entirety here:
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/publications/code_for_media_literacy_education/
The library has posted a new policy on electronic resources:
Licensed Electronic Resources Acceptable Use Guidelines
The electronic resources provided by the Ursula C. Schwerin Library are governed by legally binding license agreements, negotiated between the library and the publishers. These licenses allow students, faculty, staff, and other authorized users to access the resources for non-commercial, educational and scholarly purposes. Off-campus use requires confirmation of affiliation with City Tech.
Users of library-licensed resources must comply with U.S. Copyright Law (including the protections of Fair use) and licensing agreements of the publishers. Breach of license may lead a publisher/vendor to terminate the College’s access.
EXPRESSELY PROHIBITED:
Use of any software designed to automatically browse the web (“robots”, “spiders”, “crawlers”, etc.), record web browsing activity, or systematically download content for offline use is expressly forbidden and jeopardizes the entire College’s access to that resource.
Violators may face disciplinary action.
Examples of prohibited activities:
More computer user policies can be found at: http://ufs.cuny.edu/boardresolutioncomputeruse.pdf
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