The Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) commissioned Creating Solutions Together: Lessons to Inform the Future of Collective Licensing, which reviews " a quarter century of development in collective licensing for text publishing." The volume was commissioned to commemorate "the 25th anniversary of the final appellate decision in the case of American Geophysical Union et al. v. Texaco Inc." Christopher Kenneally interviewed one of the authors of Creating Solutions Together, Lois Wasoff, for the Velocity of Content podcast. Velocity of Content is available wherever you listen to podcasts.

I enjoyed listening to the 18-minute podcast interview with Wasoff and hearing her take on Licensing. I have not yet read the report, but have done a quick skim of her portion.  She seems to take a narrower view of how Fair Use can be used than I would.  That is her viewpoint and supported, I'm sure, by the CCC. That's fine, but I think we should be willing to exercise Fair Use more and push on its boundaries a bit.

If you read this report and have an opinion in it, please drop a comment on this post and share your thoughts. Thanks!

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