Copyright Essentials

Lessig has written a profoundly important guide to the care and feeding of innovation in a connected world. Whether it proves to be a road map or an elegy is up to us.

Readers will: learn basic copyright definitions and key exceptions for education and library services; find information quickly with key points sidebars, legislative citations and cross-references; understand the four factors of fair use and related court interpretations, and get up to speed on current interpretations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act from a librarian-educator viewpoint.