New Blackboard Tool: One Step Closer To The End Fair Use

Inside Higher Ed. has an interesting one on a move by Blackboard to integrate a “Copyright Permissions Building Block.” The author, Tarleton Gillespie, is skeptical of whether this “easy thingâ€? actually leads to the “right thing.â€? Making copyright clearance work smoothly overlooks the question of whether we should be seeking clearance at all — and what should instead be protected by the copyright exception we’ve come to know as “fair use.”The automation of copyright clearance now being deployed will work against this, continuing to shoehorn scholarship into the commercial model of information distribution, and erase the very question of what fair use was for — not by squelching it, but simply by making it easier not to fight for it and harder to even ask if there’s an alternative.“

October 21, 2005 by Uncategorized 0

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