ENGL/COMM 402 - Publishing: Focus on Copyright and Fair Use: Getting Permission

The Stanford Copyright & Fair Use site was started by Mike Keller, Vicky Reich and Tim Stanley in 1996 to support a talk that Mike was about to give. The talk was about the Michigan Documents Services case and whether it was Fair Use for a local copyshop to make coursepacks for university students. The idea for the site was proposed on a Wednesday and the site was up and running by the next Monday.

The Copyright Advisory Office (CAO) was established at Columbia University in January 2008, and its mission will surely evolve in the coming years. Its central function, however, is to address in an innovative, creative, and pragmatic manner the relationship between copyright law and the work of the university community. In all of our research, teaching, and service, we are constantly creating and using a rich variety of materials that are protected under copyright law.