Accessing the Public Domain: a conversation with copyright experts
Friday, March 28, 10am-12pm in Hatcher Library gallery
Panelists: Jack Bernard, Jessica Litman, Melissa Levine, Justin Bonfiglio
Virtually every academic discipline benefits from public domain works that are free of copyright in HathiTrust. The public domain should be simple to identify, right? Come for a discussion among copyright experts on the challenges of identifying public domain works - and why the public domain is important for all of us. This event is hosted by the University of Michigan Copyright Office in honor of the milestone completion of the CRMS-US copyright review project that identified public domain books in HathiTrust that were published in the United States between 1923 and 1963.
Within HathiTrust, freely available public domain volumes range from the complete works of Shakespeare to The Theory and Practice of Ice Cream Making. Perhaps less understood is the time intensive, often complex, and collaborative Copyright Review Management System (CRMS) which, through the generous support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, has identified over 150,000 public domain works in the United States. Panelists will put this accomplishment in context and provide some examples of the range of challenges presented by a systematic copyright review of hundreds of thousands of unique works.
More information on the discussion and panelists is available here: http://www.lib.umich.edu/
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