a select committee of copyright experts charged with updating for the digital world the Copyright Act's balance between the rights of creators and copyright owners and the needs of libraries and archives.
SHERPA's new JULIET service breaks down the differing requirements from each of the Research Councils to try and simplify what the policy says has to be done, what authors should archive, when they should archive, and where they should archive their outputs. The list then categorises the different sets of advice in comparison to an ideal Open Access mandate. The JULIET list complements the well-known RoMEO list, which summarises publishers' permissions for archiving research articles.
This document is a code of best practices that helps educators using media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use.
Reports on a year-long study by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, examining the relationship between copyright law and education. In particular, whether innovative educational uses of digital technology were hampered by the restrictions of copy
The public domain, as we understand it, is the wealth of information that is free from the barriers to access or reuse usually associated with copyright protection, either because it is free from any copyright protection or because the right holders have decided to remove these barriers. It is the raw material from which new knowledge is derived and new cultural works are created.
I would gladly live in a world without copyright, but I don't think that is going to happen. Therefore the best objective, most beneficial to all parties-- and a Xanadu proposal now for forty years-- is to find some way to make copyright less painful, an