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The Law of Fair Use and the Illusion of Fair-Use Guidelines
Several "official" and formal guidelines that attempt to define the scope of fair use for specific applications—notably for education, research, and library services—have emerged in the years since passage of...
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Code of Best Practices in Fair Use: FAQ for Professors
fair-use-code-faq-profs.pdf
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Code of Best Practices in Fair Use: FAQ for Students
fair-use-code-faq-students.pdf
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Code of Best Practices in Fair Use: Designing the Public Domain
This Note from the Harvard Law Review organizes research on pro-social motivation around the motivation-fostering effects of empowerment, community, and fairness. By incorporating these norms into the cultural architecture of...
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Letter to House Oversight and Government Reform Committee re: H.R. 3699, the Research Works Act (Feb. 24, 2012)
Letter opposing the Research Works Act. lt-researchworksact-24feb12.pdf
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Code of Best Practices in Fair Use: Fair Use and Research Libraries
Discusses copyright and its problems, why librarians need useable fair use, and the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries fair-use-code-slides-lib.pdf
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Code of Best Practices in Fair Use: Fair Use and Students
Discusses why students need to understand fair use, copyright and its problems, how codes of best practices help fair-use-code-slides-student.pdf
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Letter to Patricia Steele, Wendy Pradt Lougee, Judith Russell re: FDLP concerns (Jan. 23, 2012)
Letter from Government Printing Office responding to concerns about the FDLP's future. fdlp_shermanemail_23jan12.pdf
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ARL Eighth Annual Leadership Symposium Agenda
8th-leadership-symposium-agenda-jan-2012.pdf
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Letter to Andrew M. Sherman re: FDLP concerns (Jan. 20, 2012)
Letter from library directors to Government Printing Office representative regarding a multi-state regional depository proposal advanced by the University of Michigan and University of Minnesota Libraries, and the GPO's position...