Case Study: The Art & Architectural ePortal

In July 2018, Yale University Press launched a one-year pilot to libraries of its new electronic portal for art and architectural history scholarship. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the ePortal brings together scholarship, much of which is out of print, from a variety of publishers with the aim of making this important content more discoverable and accessible. In this major endeavor, YUP has decided to assert fair use for the images supporting the scholarship on the site and believes that fair dealing also applies. This presentation will briefly review YUP’s process for evaluating fair use and fair dealing in the context of this electronic project, as well as discuss how additional research and further conversation are required before opening up the ePortal to additional IP ranges.