{"id":3392,"date":"2018-02-26T11:03:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T15:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/?p=3392"},"modified":"2018-02-26T11:03:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T15:03:27","slug":"spotlight-happy-fair-use-week-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/2018\/spotlight-happy-fair-use-week-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight: Happy Fair Use Week 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3393\" src=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/02\/fair-use-week-logo-sm-e1518795810121-300x151-1.jpg\" alt=\"fair use week logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" \/>For students, faculty, and researchers,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fairuseweek.org\/\">Fair Use Week<\/a>\u00a0(February 26-March 2) is\u00a0reason to celebrate: fair use provides an essential safety valve that allows us to use copyrighted works without obtaining permission.<\/p>\n<p>Fair use\u00a0is a short piece of copyright law that reflects the need for copyrighted works to be available to be used for \u201cpurposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching\u2026scholarship, or research.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>In celebration of Fair Use Week, the MIT Libraries are hosting two events<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/calendar.mit.edu\/event\/fair_use_week_game_show#.WobtOOjwZPY\"><strong>Fair use game show<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/a>February 27, 3-4pm, 3-133<br \/>\nJoin us for\u00a0food, fair use, and fun! Expert panelists will make arguments for and against fair use\u00a0and the audience will vote: Fair use or not? You decide! Who will win? Everyone wins when they better understand copyright and fair use. Refreshments provided.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Make a fair use kaleidocycle<\/strong><br \/>\nFebruary 28, 10am\u20133pm, Lobby 10<br \/>\nWe\u2019re hosting a table where we\u2019ll chat about fair use and give away handy fair use kaleidocycles that you can make at the table or take home. (See\u00a0how it works\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/bLNZoh3flyI\">here<\/a>, or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/02\/FairUseWeek-Kaleidocycle-final.pdf\">download the template<\/a>) We\u2019ll have scissors and glue and will be on hand to help you think through the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.copyright.gov\/title17\/92chap1.html#107\">four fair use factors<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of Fair Use Week, the MIT Libraries are hosting two events:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/calendar.mit.edu\/event\/fair_use_week_game_show#.WobtOOjwZPY\">Fair use game show<\/a><br \/>\nFebruary 27, 3-4pm, 3-133.<br \/>\nJoin us for\u00a0food, fair use, and fun! Expert panelists will make arguments for and against fair use\u00a0and the audience will vote: Fair use or not? Refreshments provided.<\/li>\n<li>Make a fair use kaleidocycle<br \/>\nFebruary 28, 10am\u20133pm, Lobby 10.<br \/>\nWe\u2019re hosting a table where we\u2019ll chat about fair use and give away handy fair use kaleidocycles that you can make at the table or take home. (See\u00a0how it works\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/bLNZoh3flyI\">here<\/a>, or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/5\/FairUseWeek-Kaleidocycle-final.pdf\">download the template<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":false,"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3392"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3399,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3392\/revisions\/3399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}