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Fair Use Week Overview

Fair Use Week is an annual celebration of the importance of fair use.

Fair use is an essential limitation and defense to copyright infringement, allowing the use of copyrighted materials without permission under certain circumstances. It facilitates balance in copyright law, promoting progress and accommodating freedom of speech and expression.

Fair Use Week at Notre Dame aims to spread awareness about what fair use is, why it’s essential, and provide examples of fair use — in the context of academic scholarship and publication for the ND community. Fair use will be explored both from the field of law and from the fields of art and culture.

Fair Use Week Events

Appropriation Art, Transformativeness & Fair Use Panel

February 24, 5:45pm – 7pm, 1315 Biolchini, Notre Dame Law School

A panel discussion on the history of appropriation art, its use in contemporary artistic practice, and the challenges of appropriation art's digital preservation in the museum as related to fair use issues under copyright law.

Panelists:
Jason Lahr, Associate Professor, Art, Art History, and Design
Victoria Perdomo, Registrar, Snite Museum of Art
Nicole Woods, Assistant Professor, Art, Art History, and Design

Co-sponsors: Art, Art History, & Design Department, Snite Museum of Art, Hesburgh Libraries, and ND Law School

Pop-up IP Clinic

February 25, 2pm – 4pm, 231B & 231C Hesburgh Library

Do you have a question about how much of someone’s work you can use in your studio art, dissertation, or article?

Sign up to meet with the Notre Dame IP and Entrepreneurship Clinic for advice on fair use issues related to your personal scholarship.

Registration deadline: February 18

Please note: The IP Clinic cannot advise you on fair use issues related to any work you have produced as an employee of the University or under a work for hire agreement. Each request for an appointment at the IP Clinic will be examined for any conflicts of interest. Signing up through this sheet does not guarantee you an appointment with the IP Clinic. If your request for an appointment has been accepted, you will be notified by email. If you have any questions about your request, please contact Felicia Caponigri, Program Director of the Program on IP and Technology Law at fcaponig@nd.edu.

Digital Preservation, Archiving & Copyright Panel

February 26, 12:30pm – 2pm, 3130 Eck Hall of Law, Notre Dame Law School

A panel discussion about the purpose of digital preservation; the complex interests among institutions, users, and the public as digital assets are preserved, archived, and managed; and the importance of raising awareness about the loss of intangible digital assets.

Panelists:
Stefania Fusco, Professor, Notre Dame Law School
Helen Hockx-Yu, Enterprise Data Architect, Notre Dame
Cinda May, Digital Preservation Strategist, Hesburgh Libraries
Moderated by Felicia Caponigri, Program Director, Intellectual Property and Technology Law

Fair Use Film Screenings

February 27, 2pm – 4pm, Carey Auditorium, Hesburgh Library

Explore fair use in film and the importance of parody and satire through short film screenings of Midnight in Paris, Our Nixon, and clips from Saturday Night Live.

Moderated by Ben Perry, a 2L at Notre Dame Law School. Ben’s work focuses on user-generated content and related legal issues.

What is a Copy?

February 28, 10am – 11:30am, 102 Hesburgh Library, Rare Books & Special Collections

A display and presentation of tangible books and manuscripts that challenge our notions of what is a copy, including examples of tangible text, multiple iterations of texts, forgeries and imitations, and multiple editions and printings.

Sponsored by:
Hesburgh Libraries
The Law School
Program on Intellectual Property and Technology Law