To continue researching online-dating, I thought it was necessary to focus mainly on debates on Appropriation, as this is something I will focus on during the production of my photo-book and videos during the creation of my final pieces. This video (below) I thought was very helpful within the discussions of ethical boundaries of uses of library collections online and in physical spaces. What is given online within the public domain is discussed to show how people manipulate, copy, and appropriate images to trademark it for themselves.

To mark Fair Use Week 2015, a community celebration of fair use coordinated by the Association of Research Libraries, the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship’s Scholarly Communication Program and the Copyright Advisory Office hosted a panel discussion around freedom of expression in art and photography as it relates to fair use. Panelists discussed fair use from different perspectives in librarianship, copyright law, photojournalism, and copyright activism, and explored the opportunities and impediments that fair use in art and photography presents.
Panelists:

• Greg Cram, Associate Director of Copyright and Information Policy at The New York Public Library
• Rachelle Browne, Associate General Counsel, Smithsonian Institution and Adjunct Lecturer at Goucher College’s Masters in Arts Administration program
• Mickey H. Osterreicher, General Counsel for the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA); Parker Higgins Director of Copyright Activism, Electronic Frontier Foundation. Moderated by Rina Elster Pantalony, Director of Columbia University’s Copyright Advisory Office.

For more about the event and the Research Without Borders series:

www. scholcomm.columbia.edu/events