I began the week with a look back, involving 19th century art and 20th century scholarship; seems only fitting to end the week with a look ahead to 21st century industries. #ArtificialIntelligence #FairDealing #FairUse #Canada .
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For #FairDealing and #FairUse Week 2024.
My origin story with respect to copyright exceptions & limitations, and the role played by Renoir's famed Dance series of 1883. fairduty.wordpress.com/2024/02/26/twe…

Chair of the CFLA-FCAB Copyright Committee, Victoria Owen, talks about libraries, public policy, and misinformation about fair dealing. #fairdealingworks

THREAD:
A huge portion of the entertainment we watch/play/read in 2023 is based on characters, storylines, & intellectual property from years, decades, & even centuries ago.

To illustrate this, I made a list of the biggest media franchises created in each of the last 100 years.

My next book is *The Lost Cause*. It's a climate emergency book. Library Journal called it 'a message hope in a near-future that looks increasingly bleak.' As with all my books @Amazon refuses to sell the audiobook, so I'm selling it on Kickstarter:

lost-cause.org

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Copyright law is too often blamed for the power imbalance in creators' contracts and Bill Willingham is using his statutory rights to do something about it. Billwillingham.Substack.com

New op ed techdirt about Controlled Digital Lending and the power of Internet Archive
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UPDATE: Judge Koeltl has issued an order in Hachette Books v. Internet Archive, adopting the Archive's proposed definition of 'covered books.' It may sound minor, but it's good news. Check out our updated blog post to learn more: authorsalliance.org/2023/08/11/upd…

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/07/31/sei…

#Pluralistic

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Restoring the balance in Canadian copyright law nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articles… #cdnpoli #cdnlaw

Curious about the impact of copyright anxiety in Canadian #HigherEd ? So are we.

Help us out by completing this short survey if you work at a university, college, or technical institute in #cdnpse :

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