Electronic Frontier Foundation
The following is a guest post by Ashley Lierman, instructional design librarian at the University of Houston Libraries. This week, we’ll feature posts by members of the UH Libraries Copyright Team highlighting Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2016.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Ideally, copyright law exists to protect the rights of both copyright-holders and users of materials. In recent years, however, the balance of power seems to have shifted more towards wealthy corporate rights-holders, and away from individual users.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to defending civil liberties around software and the internet, is one organization that has been pushing back. Among other activities, the EFF tracks current fair use legal cases and their outcomes, and makes brief overviews available to the public on their blog.