Mass Digitization

changing copyright law, policy and practice

Archive for the 'fair use' Category

Georgia Harper

Making sense of the Web; creative interpretations of transformative fair use

While Congress may have sidelined itself, not so the lower and appellate courts. Mass digitization projects contribute to the pressure on business models to adapt to the "attention" economy by offering ease of access and freedom to use products and services as the consumer desires. But the massive push to put everything online has indirectly [...]

Georgia Harper

Mass Digitization: Introduction

Last [summer, June, 2007], at the International Creative Commons Summit in Dubrovnik, Croatia, Lawrence Lessig made a stunning announcement: he is going to retire from copyfighting and take up a new career, fighting for a new issue. He's going to stay involved with Creative Commons as its CEO, but from now on, he's working to [...]