The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has received a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop a code of best practices in fair use for academic and research libraries. ARL will undertake the three-year project with the Center for Social Media at American University and the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property in American University’s Washington College of Law.
The project is based on prior codes of best practice for fair use in other fields prepared by Professors Peter Jaszi and Patricia Aufderheide, who are part of the project team. ARL Law and Policy Fellow Brandon Butler will be coordinating the project with Prudence Adler, ARL Associate Executive Director.
The project will operate between April 2010 and March 2013. It will be undertaken in three phases - a research phase, a development phase and an outreach phase. In the research phase, the project team will conduct interviews with members of the library and legal communities. The project team, with members of the academic and research library community, will draft and publish the code of best practices in the development phase. Finally, during the outreach phase the project team will distribute and publicize the code of best practices.
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