In 2014, Ed Sheeran and Amy Wadge wrote the song “Thinking Out Loud,” which became a global hit. Structured Asset Sales, LLC (SAS), which owns a portion of the royalties for Marvin Gaye’s 1973 song “Let’s Get It On,” alleged that Sheeran’s s…
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Open Educational Resources (OER)
American University’s Washington College of Law, along with other academic contributors, has launched the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Open Educational Resources (the Code). This forty-plus page report, the goal of which is to assist professors, teachers, librarians, and other educators in evaluating when and how they can incorporate third party copyright […]