Elisabeth Tully's List: Copyright

• copyright in academic works need not be abolished but should be heavily reformed.
• much more leeway should be accorded to academic work than would be appropriate for other types of work.
• scope of fair use would be very broad
• the court should look very careful at why the works in question were created in the first place and focus a fair use finding on the incentives for creation and not extraneous claims for windfall profits made by secondary copyright holders.

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• nearly half of all communications scholars were not confident about their knowledge of copyright laws.
• scholars develop standards for copyright exemption that include "fair use" allowances guaranteed by federal law. The Center for Social Media has produced a code of best practices for use in the profession.
• "Effective use of copyright exemptions, such as fair use, fair dealing, and right of quotation, has been shown to have direct links to the quality and nature of creative work," the authors say in the report. "When creators fail to understand or make use of exemptions that permit quotation of existing (and usually copyrighted) culture, they typically suffer from a failure not only to complete work but a hobbling of the imaginative and creative process itself."

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