[Kip Currier: I'm teaching 15 online students in my Intellectual Property and "Open" Movements course this Summer Term and posted this announcement on our Courseweb site today:
I highly recommend reading this article, especially as a capstone to the material we have explored this term and in conjunction with your reading of this course's final required text, Reclaiming Fair Use by Pat Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi.
Questions to consider:
- What did you notice about fair use from reading the article?
- In what ways does U.S. fair use compare with South Africa's proposed fair use right?
- What are some ways that the proposed South Africa fair use right may impact copyright holders, users, and other stakeholders?
- Did you notice which persons and organizations are the authors of the article?
- How about that fair use is a "defense" in the U.S. and a "right" in the South African proposal?
- How does the proposed South African fair use right compare and contrast with the recent controversial European Union Copyright Directive?
- What else...?]