--Susan Noakes
Last Updated: Monday, November 9, 2009 10:11 AM ET
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2009/11/09/f-google-digitization-books.html
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
Orphan Works Best Practices
Orphan Works: Statement of Best Practices
CHICAGO-The Society of American Archivists (SAA) has issued Orphan Works: Statement of Best Practices, a 16-page report that provides what professional archivists consider the best methods to use when attempting to identify and locate copyright holders. The statement, which primarily focuses on unpublished materials because they are usually found in archives, is available on the associations website as a PDF at http://www.archivists.org/standards/.
Orphan works is a term used to describe the situation in which the owner of a copyrighted work cannot be identified and located by someone who wishes to make use of the work in a manner that requires permission of the copyright owner. Eight archivists and a recognized legal expert in intellectual property and copyright law developed the statement, based upon their experiences researching copyright status. We created this statement to provide archivists with a framework to discover what materials they hold are truly orphaned works, and in the hopes of empowering them to provide wider access and use of those materials as a result, said Heather Briston, chair of SAAs Intellectual Property Working Group.
The primary authors of the statement include Briston (University of Oregon), Mark Allen Greene (University of Wyoming), Cathy Henderson (University of Texas, Austin), Peter
Hirtle (Cornell University), Peter Jaszi (American University) , William Maher (University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Aprille Cooke McKay (University of Michigan), Richard Pearce-Moses (Arizona State Library), and Merrilee Proffitt (OCLC). Financial and administrative support was provided for this project by OCLC Research and the RLG Partnership. More information on SAAs Intellectual Property Working Group can be found at:
http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/ipwg/.
CHICAGO-The Society of American Archivists (SAA) has issued Orphan Works: Statement of Best Practices, a 16-page report that provides what professional archivists consider the best methods to use when attempting to identify and locate copyright holders. The statement, which primarily focuses on unpublished materials because they are usually found in archives, is available on the associations website as a PDF at http://www.archivists.org/standards/.
Orphan works is a term used to describe the situation in which the owner of a copyrighted work cannot be identified and located by someone who wishes to make use of the work in a manner that requires permission of the copyright owner. Eight archivists and a recognized legal expert in intellectual property and copyright law developed the statement, based upon their experiences researching copyright status. We created this statement to provide archivists with a framework to discover what materials they hold are truly orphaned works, and in the hopes of empowering them to provide wider access and use of those materials as a result, said Heather Briston, chair of SAAs Intellectual Property Working Group.
The primary authors of the statement include Briston (University of Oregon), Mark Allen Greene (University of Wyoming), Cathy Henderson (University of Texas, Austin), Peter
Hirtle (Cornell University), Peter Jaszi (American University) , William Maher (University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Aprille Cooke McKay (University of Michigan), Richard Pearce-Moses (Arizona State Library), and Merrilee Proffitt (OCLC). Financial and administrative support was provided for this project by OCLC Research and the RLG Partnership. More information on SAAs Intellectual Property Working Group can be found at:
http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/ipwg/.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Copyright Meets a New Foe: The Real-Time Web
Copyright Meets a New Foe: The Real-Time Web
-- Liz Gannes, Business Week May 21, 2009,
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2009/tc20090521_159692.htm
"The Digital Millennium Copyright Act may seem inadequate to address the issues that arise from the furious rate Internet users are sharing content. "
-- Liz Gannes, Business Week May 21, 2009,
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2009/tc20090521_159692.htm
"The Digital Millennium Copyright Act may seem inadequate to address the issues that arise from the furious rate Internet users are sharing content. "
Google: We're good for journalism
Google: We're good for journalism
--Stephen Shankland, May 6, 2009 CNET News
India ahead of US, UK in IP laws, enforcement practices
India ahead of US, UK in IP laws, enforcement practices
--Economic Times, May 6, 2009
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4492767.cms?flstry=1
"India has been ranked as the country with the world's most consumer friendly intellectual property (IP) laws since its copyright
regulations allow allow citizens great freedom to access and utilise information for educational and development purposes."
--Economic Times, May 6, 2009
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4492767.cms?flstry=1
"India has been ranked as the country with the world's most consumer friendly intellectual property (IP) laws since its copyright
regulations allow allow citizens great freedom to access and utilise information for educational and development purposes."
US Congress introduces bill to end free access to federally funded research
US Congress introduces bill to end free access to federally funded research
- Jeanne Lenzer
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/338/jun01_2/b2199
Published 1 June 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b2199
"A bill has been introduced in the US Congress that would end free access to the results of published studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). "
- Jeanne Lenzer
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/338/jun01_2/b2199
Published 1 June 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b2199
"A bill has been introduced in the US Congress that would end free access to the results of published studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). "
Pushing the Envelope on Copyright Exemptions
Pushing the Envelope on Copyright Exemptions
--Doug Lederman
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/12/30/copyright
"Professors, librarians and others have proposed that the U.S. Copyright Office significantly expand its list of when, and by whom, DVDs and other audiovisual materials should be exempted from technological measures that control access to copyrighted works. The list came in a Federal Register notice of proposed rule making that is one early step in a yearlong process that is likely to culminate next fall."
--Doug Lederman
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/12/30/copyright
"Professors, librarians and others have proposed that the U.S. Copyright Office significantly expand its list of when, and by whom, DVDs and other audiovisual materials should be exempted from technological measures that control access to copyrighted works. The list came in a Federal Register notice of proposed rule making that is one early step in a yearlong process that is likely to culminate next fall."
Supreme Court to Revisit a Case on Breach of Copyright
Supreme Court to Revisit a Case on Breach of Copyright.
--Adam Liptak, The New York Times, March 2, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/d5oybs
"The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to revisit a case it decided eight
years ago in favor of freelance writers who said that newspapers and
magazines had committed copyright infringement by making their
contributions available on electronic databases."
--Adam Liptak, The New York Times, March 2, 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/d5oybs
"The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to revisit a case it decided eight
years ago in favor of freelance writers who said that newspapers and
magazines had committed copyright infringement by making their
contributions available on electronic databases."
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Want to Copy iTunes Music? Go Ahead, Apple Says
Want to Copy iTunes Music? Go Ahead, Apple Says
-- Brad Stone, The New York Times, January 6, 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/companies/07apple.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
"In moves that will help shape the online future of the music business, Apple said Tuesday that it would remove anticopying restrictions on all of the songs in its popular iTunes Store and allow record companies to set a range of prices for them."
-- Brad Stone, The New York Times, January 6, 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/companies/07apple.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
"In moves that will help shape the online future of the music business, Apple said Tuesday that it would remove anticopying restrictions on all of the songs in its popular iTunes Store and allow record companies to set a range of prices for them."
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