fair use

Back to “The Gift” and “fair use”

So, I am not the only one thinking about on-line offerings as gifts. In this week’s New York Times Sunday Magazine there is a feature about Lewis Hyde, MacArthur genius grant recipient, poet, and essayist. He asks the question: What is art for if not to share? In a gift economy, gifts only increase in…

Yesterday afternoon I took part in a conversation about what fair use and copyright looks like in the K-12 classroom. I was invited when the head of our upper-school was unable to attend, and because I am the adviser to the yearbook and the newspaper and I teach Journalism and Media Studies, I was asked…