Fair Use of Content

What fair use currently entails and where should it go. What can we understand about it by analyzing it from an economic, legal or social perspective? What does it mean for discourse in a society?

Presented by Prof. Dan Laster (Law) - http://www.law.washington.edu/Faculty/Laster/

Relevant current issue: Google Book Search (formerly GooglePrint)

• Google CEO Eric Schmidt's comments on "The Point of GooglePrint"
• Official site of book search http://print.google.com/googlebooks/about.html
• Case brought against Google by the Author's Guild: http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/authorsguild_v_google/complaint.pdf
• Analysis of case: http://www.policybandwidth.com/doc/googleprint.pdf
• Position paper of ALPSP: http://www.alpsp.org/2005pdfs/GooglePrintLibraries.pdf

• Pre-publication of Ford's memoirs http://www.justia.us/us/471/539/case.html
• American Geophysical Union v. Texaco, Inc. http://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/60_F3d_913.htm
• Stanford Copyright & Fair Use Center (a resource from Stanford Libraries) http://fairuse.stanford.edu/