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In this 45-minute broad overview, Jenni Matz will give a background on copyright and fair use basics. She will share resources and the codes of best practices that have been prepared specifically for libraries and archives by the Center for Media and Social Impact. She will address how libraries utilize copyright law when providing public access to materials through digitization and curating exhibits, and how copyright comes into play when preparing donor agreements, licenses, etc. The concepts presented can apply to archival and special collections that contain paper and audiovisual media. A short Q and A will follow.

Jenni Matz is an oral historian, MLIS- archivist, documentary filmmaker, and attorney. Jenni has been an oral historian for the Television Academy Interviews since 2006 and its Director since 2014. She oversees the long-term planning and preservation of the Academy’s digital video archive and conducts many of its interviews. Matz co-designed the award-winning website, Television Academy Interviews, which provides full-text searchable access to over 4,000 hours of catalogued, indexed, time-stamped content. Prior to her tenure at the Academy, Jenni co-founded the American Comedy Archives at Emerson College and produced and edited numerous documentary films for WGBH’s award-winning American Passages series, the History Channel, MSNBC, ABC News, and Oregon Public Broadcasting, among others. Jenni received her Masters in Library and Information Sciences from Simmons College in 2006, and her JD from Southwestern Law School in 2016. She joined LAPNet in 2024.

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