[Air-L] Fwd: [HASTAC Announcement] Fair Use and the Future of the Commons - Come Join the Discussion with the HASTAC Scholars!

jeremy hunsinger jhuns at vt.edu
Wed Oct 22 17:15:03 PDT 2008



Begin forwarded message:

> From: jonathan.tarr at duke.edu
> Date: October 22, 2008 5:57:34 PM EDT
> To: jonathan.tarr at duke.edu
> Subject: [HASTAC Announcement] Fair Use and the Future of the  
> Commons - Come Join the Discussion with the HASTAC Scholars!
> Reply-To: jonathan.tarr at duke.edu
>
> An announcement from HASTAC.org
>
> Veronica Paredes, a HASTAC Scholar from USC, has just opened our  
> next HASTAC Scholars Discussion Forum on "Fair Use and the Future of  
> the Commons," featuring the non-profit advocacy coalition Critical  
> Commons. Please come join the discussion!
>
> Fair Use and the Future of the Commons
> Discussion forum open now at www.hastac.org
>
> Coinciding with a day-long Critical Commons event to take place at  
> USC's Annenberg Research Park on Oct 27, this forum will address the  
> fear, uncertainty and misinformation dominating the discourse of  
> copyright and intellectual property. Fair Use has become one of the  
> most vexing issues in today's academic landscape. As educators, what  
> are our rights and responsibilities when working with copyrighted  
> media (images, audio, video) under the current copyright regime? In  
> light of recent developments in legislation (e.g. the creation of a  
> 'copyright czar'), how is this copyright regime changing? How can  
> media scholars and artists avoid chilling effects and self- 
> censorship? How can we contribute to advocacy and reform of fair use  
> protections?
>
> Inspired by Critical Commons, a non-profit advocacy coalition that  
> supports the use of media in educational contexts, this forum will  
> explore these urgent questions and aim to provide some tangible  
> answers. The forum will also document and engage a real-life  
> Critical Commons event - a series of presentations and discussions  
> with key players in the advancement and redefinition of fair use  
> (which will include a keynote presentation from Peter Jaszi,  
> Professor of Law at American University and co-chair on the Code of  
> Best Practices Committee at the Center for Social Media). The event  
> will be coupled with a faculty showcase and hands-on workshops at  
> the Institute for Multimedia Literacy (IML), as well as a virtual  
> space to join in on the conversation at the IML island in Second  
> Life. Possibilities for participation are many and diverse: read and  
> post on the forum; attend presentations and discussions in Second  
> Life; visit us in Southern California and participate in a workshop  
> at the IML!
>
> The goal of this forum is to bring clarity to questions of fair use  
> for scholars and educators working with copyrighted media for  
> research, teaching and electronic publication. This forum, in its  
> multiple forms, will facilitate some much-needed discussion of the  
> state of contemporary Fair Use and where we should be setting our  
> sights for the future.
>
> Veronica Paredes is a PhD student in the new interdivisional program  
> Media Arts and Practice (iMAP) at USC's School of Cinematic Arts.  
> While at USC, she has worked as a research and teaching assistant  
> for the Institute for Multimedia Literacy. Her research interests  
> include digital scholarship, transnational online economies and  
> audio culture. Her work explores histories of technology and culture  
> through the topics of gender, labor and race.
>
> Critical Commons, a winner of the 2007 HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation  
> Digital Media & Learning Competition Knowledge Networking award, is  
> a non-profit advocacy coalition that supports the use of media in  
> educational contexts, providing resources, information and tools for  
> scholars, students and educators. They aim to: Facilitate the  
> writing and dissemination of best practices and fair use guidelines  
> for academic communities; Showcase innovative electronic scholarship  
> that is free, open source, or fair use; Inform educators about  
> current copyright law and its alternatives; Provide a tool for  
> viewing, tagging, annotating and distributing media for classroom  
> use; Build an open, informed community around media-based education,  
> scholarly research and critical practice; and Share tools, resources  
> and information of interest to educators, students and researchers.
>
>




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