Scholarly communication, copyright, and fair use

["B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2@yahoo.com>]

Interesting blog entry from Kevin Smith at Duke University. He 
makes a case that fair use should be applied more liberally to 
academic works (e.g., in course packs and electronic 
reserves)=A0because the authors generally don't write them 
intending to profit monetarily...they write them to disseminate 
their research and ideas. He argues that "the court should look 
very careful at why the works in question were created in the 
first place and focus a fair use finding on the incentives for 
creation and not extraneous claims for windfall profits made by 
secondary copyright holders."

http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/2009/08/13/choosing-between-reform-and-revolution/

Bernie Sloan