Pat Aufderheide

Professor
American University
Washington, District of Columbia,
UNITED STATES

Biography

Patricia Aufderheide is a professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C. and director of the Center for Social Media there. With Prof. Peter Jaszi of American University's Washington College of Law, she has facilitated several codes of best practices in fair use with creator and user communities,. She is the author of, among others, Documentary: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2007), The Daily Planet (University of Minnesota Press, 2000), and of Communications Policy in the Public Interest (Guilford Press, 1999). She has received numerous journalism and scholarly awards, including career achievement awards in 2006 from the International Documentary Association and in 2008 from the International Digital Media and Arts Association.

EDUCAUSE Publications

The Copyright Permissions Culture in Software Preservation and Its Implications for the Cultural Record
- February 9, 2018
- Briefs, Case Studies, Papers, Reports
- Author
This Association of Research Libraries (ARL) report finds that individuals and institutions need clear guidance on the legality of archiving legacy software to ensure continued access to digital files of all kinds and to illuminate the history of technology.
Fair Use in Academic and Research Libraries
- March 21, 2012
- Article
- Author
Patricia Aufderheide is University Professor and the founder-director of the Center for Social Media in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.
Myths About Fair Use
- August 2, 2011
- Briefs, Case Studies, Papers, Reports
- Author
"Academics potentially enjoy some of the greatest benefits of U.S. copyright law’s doctrine of fair use — which lets them use copyrighted material without permission or payment, under some circumstances.