Beyond the Copyright Wars
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Beyond the Copyright Wars:
Fair Use, Free Speech, and Reframing the Policy Debate
Amherst, MA – To kick off Open Access Week (October 24-28), keynote speaker Patricia Aufderheide will give a talk, Beyond the Copyright Wars: Fair Use, Free Speech, and Reframing the Policy Debate, on Monday October 24, at 4:30 p.m. in the Amherst Room, on the 10th floor of the Campus Center at UMass Amherst. A reception will follow the talk. The full schedule for Open Access Week is available at http://scholarworks.umass.edu/oa/2011/.
Copyright has become a terrifying word, as copyright problems have floated into everyone’s daily life. Journalists, bloggers, filmmakers, photographers, librarians, teachers, students and remix artists face daily decisions about how to handle copyrighted material when they use it in their work. Recent research on fair use--the most flexible and ample of exceptions from copyright’s limited monopoly and a free speech right--has reframed the academic and policy discourse around copyright and fair use. Patricia Aufderheide, American University communications professor and Director of the Center for Social Media, will illustrate this reframing in a discussion of her new book, Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright (2011). Aufderheide co-authored the book with Professor Peter Jaszi of the Washington College of Law at American University. Together they head the Fair Use and Free Speech research project at the Center for Social Media.
Aufderheide has been a Fulbright and John Simon Guggenheim fellow and has served as a juror at the Sundance Film Festival, among others. She has received numerous journalism and scholarly awards, including the Preservation and Scholarship award in 2006 from the International Documentary Association, a career achievement award in 2008 from the International Digital Media and Arts Association, and the Woman of Vision Award from Women in Film and Video (DC) in 2010.
Aufderheide serves on the board of directors of Kartemquin Films, a leading independent social documentary production company, and on the editorial boards of a variety of publications, including Communication Law and Policy and In These Times newspaper. She has served on the board of directors of the Independent Television Service, which produces innovative television programming for underserved audiences under the umbrella of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and on the film advisory board of the National Gallery of Art. She received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Minnesota.
The event is co-sponsored by the UMass Amherst Libraries; Science, Technology & Society Initiative; Center for Public Policy and Administration; Department of Communication in the School of Behavioral and Social Sciences; and Students for Free Culture. For more information, contact Marilyn Billings (mbillings@library.umass.edu, 545-6891).
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Last Edited: 6 October 2011
