Copyright_Your+Questions+Answered

Presenter: Gary Becker National Copyright Law Consultant This session is being podcast General Overview
 * 110th Congress has submitted 2 bills to be updated for copyright
 * Court cases
 * Greenberg v. National Geographic
 * Publishers of works digitize them and republish without permission of the authors?
 * Decision in favor of the author
 * Case is pending appeal on the part of National Geographic
 * ALA supports the decision
 * Perfect 10 v. Google
 * Google search pulls Perfect 10 thumbnails
 * Perfect 10 saying Google is using copyrighted material
 * Court granted injunction requiring Google not to permit its search engine to gather photos from Perfect 10
 * Case is pending appeal on the part of Google
 * Macrovision Corp v. Sima Products Corp
 * Sima produced a device to circumvent copyright protection of DVDs and DCs
 * Sima argued providing capability for end users to back-up what owners already owned
 * Lower court ruled Sima violated DMCA in circumbenting protection systems
 * Case pending appeal
 * Copyright Actions
 * Law sutes contine against organizations and idividuals downloading music and video illegally
 * Recognition ID through computer that can be tracked back to the machine
 * Can get to location of computer…though no necessarily the user at the time
 * Sites such as YouTube trying to utilize tech to detect copyrighted materials placed on their site
 * Copyright offices in DC ruled on additional exemption for circum vention of protection systems
 * Division of Library of Congress
 * [|www.copyright.gov]
 * Copyright office conducting Section 108
 * Fair use as it relates to libraries and need for expanded privileges
 * Copyright Issues
 * Digitizing material
 * Copyright protects the format in which the idea is expressed
 * Storage and retrieval of digitized materials
 * Use of copyrighted materials in distance learning
 * TEACH Act
 * Application of fair use to the digital environment
 * Minute on Internet it is mass publication
 * International agreements and trade treaties impact on libraries and U.S. Copyright Law
 * Contact information
 * 888.333.2037 after 6PM on weekdays
 * gbecker@earthlink.net
 * [|www.beckercopyright.com]
 * Preannounce copyright workshops being offered in the US
 * Hotlinks to copyright resources