VRT Best Practices for Fair Use and Video Working Group

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Contents 1 Who are we? 1.1 Statement of Purpose 2 Project plan 3 Meetings 4 Resources

Who are we?

We are a small group of media professionals and interested others that formed in the fall of 2007 to try to organize productive conversations around issues relating to the educational use of digital video. Our goal is to issue copyright guidelines that would be useful to librarians and educators.

Our steering group includes:

• Judith Thomas, University of Virginia (Chair)
• Steve Brantley, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Nell Chenault, Virginia Commonwealth University
• Carleton Jackson, University of Maryland
• Carrie Russel, American Library Association Office for Information Technology Policy
• Claire Stewart, Northwestern University
• Justin Wadland, University of Washington, Tacoma
• Madelyn Wessel, University of Virginia

Statement of Purpose

Project plan

• Goal: We propose to create a statement by and for librarians reaffirming the application of the fair use doctrine to the educational use of video collections with a focus on the emerging issues of digital technology. We plan to create a document that describes best practices in fair use of video for librarians, including an introduction to fair use, a description of standard use cases with fair use analyses, a short glossary of terms, and brief statements about the relationship to fair use to other relevant legislation.

Meetings

• Any librarians interested in getting involved in this project are invited to attend the Working Meeting at ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim
  Date & Time: Friday, June 27, 2008, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
  Location: Hilton Anaheim in Conference Rm. 4

• Meeting Notes:
  J. Wadland's Notes from Annual 2008 Fair Use Working Meeting
  N. Chenault's Notes from Annual 2008 Fair Use Working Meeting (draft for approval and correction)

Resources

• ARL's Know Your Copy Rights (Peggy Hoon)
• Electronic Frontier Foundation on Video
• A Fair(y) Use Tale, Stanford
• The Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Statement of Best Practices for Fair Use in Teaching for Film and Media Educators
• Copyright Management Center (Kenny Crews)
• Documentary Filmmaker's Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use, by the Center for Social Media
• Statement on the Digital Transmission of Electronic Reserves from the Music Library Association