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Based on feedback from the ITLC, OGC, UCEP, and UCOLASC, the Educational Technology Leadership Group makes the following revisions to its recommendations on copyright:

1. Develop a single UC Copyright and Fair Use website, that provides all UC Faculty and Staff:

    1. A unified UC interpretation/definition of “Fair Use”;
    2. Unified policies, procedures and processes for ensuring faculty and staff have what they need to protect the university from misuse and litigation.
    3. A designated single point of contact for faculty and staff who require assistance related to fair use and copyright issues on each campus.

Revision item #1: Based on further consideration of the feedback received, including specific feedback from UCOLASC and OGC, the ETLG no longer recommends a rigid framework such as the one described in item #1a ("unified interpretation") and #1b. We agree with UCOLASC that over-specification could have a negative effect, especially when one considers the individual campus legal liability that exists, as echoed in feedback from the OGC.

ETLG continues to support the recommendation that a single point of contact on each campus (item 1c) be established. Clearly, this point of contact would most likely exist within the library or within an Academic Support office and not within an IT department or educational technology department.

2. Establish standard UC guidelines on ‘fair use’ as it pertains to instruction, which:

    1. Define the level of risk the university is willing to tolerate in the area of potential interpretation by copyright owners and lawyers as copyright infringement;
    2. More clearly stipulate system wide, campus, and individual responsibilities within a unified copyright and fair use service provision that relies on a codified set of standards while allowing for differentiation at the local level.

Revision item #2: ETLG would like to change our recommendation for the establishment of "guidelines" to lend our support for the recently announced "Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries" released in January 2012 by the Association of Research Libraries.

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