Shift #34 - Required Webinar: Legal Issues in Social Media
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 | 12-12:50 pm CST/1-1:50 pm EST (50 min)
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Michelle Hurt, student/intern
Jennifer Gonzalez, practicum supervisor
This is a screenshot of our Law Library intern cohort attending a required webinar. The webinar focused on legal issues in social media.
We had a host for this webinar, Hope O'Keefe who works in the copyright office of the Library of Congress. She jumped right in, giving us a lot of information. Anything past 1900 is copyrighted but other than that, it is fair use and is OK. If we were onsite, we would need to use Library of Congress software to address security and accessibility issues. She emphasized that we should not plagiarize, and to make sure we attributed sources properly. Hope explained some basic rules of copyright - that it is a property interested and it is conveyed like any other personal property. Just because you can copy something doesn't mean you should (especially online & digital works). If you own the copyright, you can do the following: reproduce the work, prepare derivative works (example - a film from a book), distribute copies, perform the work publicly, and display it publicly.
Hope also talked about current federal copyright laws. I learned that you don't have to register your work anymore - you automatically have the copyright on what you created (it doesn't need to be published first before you can own the copyright); this has been in place since 1976. You own the copyright at the moment of work creation and fixation. She also talked to use about fair use - it is for the purposes of criticism, comment, news report, teaching, scholarship and research. Fair use is determined by the facts of each case and it's governed by an "equitable rule of reason". Later, Hope talked about the use of images on library social media. They have to consult communication guidelines as outlined by the Library of Congress. She noted that just because something is posted on the LoC website doesn't mean we can just use it - we should not assume everything available online is usable. What we need to do is check the rights restriction language on the website and if the image id displayed off-site, we cannot use it.
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