RCR Forum-"Copyright & Fair Use in Research & Teaching"

Kevin Smith, JD, Scholarly Communications Officer, Perkins Library, DukeDescription: As more and more scholarship and teaching involves digital resources and digital communications, copyright issues have become more important, and more contentious, than ever before. This forum will examine some of the basic principles of copyright law and discuss how they apply to research and teaching. We will discuss the parameters of the elusive "fair use" privilege and the lawsuits against higher education institutions that it has spawned. We will also consider the issue of intellectual property ownership for scholars and how that ownership can best be managed to serve the interests of the scholar and of the academic community in general.