On September 12 of this year The Authors Guild, Inc. and other societies and individual authors filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against HathiTrust and five universities over making, storing, and providing access to scans of digital books.  HathiTrust may be well known among library professionals, but this lawsuit is certain to draw considerable new attention [...]

This year I completed a study of museum policies and licenses funded by The Samuel H. Kress Foundation.  My work in the issues of copyright ownership, policy options, and appropriate use of art images continues, but in the meantime I am pleased to provide this consolidated list of papers that are the result of the [...]

A previous question about showing motion pictures in the classroom and as part of an educational film series stirred an earlier follow-up from readers.  Here is a second question:
I have read your general guidance about when I can show movies in the classroom.  My question is about showing films in university dormitories.  I am assuming [...]

I recently completed my doctoral dissertation, and I am now planning to publish it with a well-established publisher.  The publisher asked if I can verify whether I own the copyright in the dissertation.  Do I still own the copyright, even if my dissertation is available through ProQuest or is on my university’s digital repository?
In general, [...]