Category: Legal
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Book sales get a lift from Google scan plan
Hmm, looks like I was right (me and every other sane person); publishers are starting to admit that the books that are available through Google Book Search and Amazon’s Search Inside program are <gasp!> actually selling more copies! Some quotes from the Reuters piece: ""Google Book Search has helped us turn searchers into consumers," said…
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Canadian Library Association vs. Captain Copyright
Kind of odd that I would learn about this from Boing Boing and not from the CLA itself, but there you go. CLA has written a two page letter (PDF) to Access Copyright about Captain Copyright in which, “CLA insists that Access Copyright withdraw the site until the broader copyright community can assist Access Copyright…
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DRM through cartoons
Two related items in the same week must be a sign, so check ’em out if you haven’t seen ’em yet. Thing #1) The Pig and the Box. From the site: The Pig and the Box is about a pig who finds a magic box that can replicate anything you put into it. The pig…
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Controlling Intellectual Property: The Academic Community and the Future of Knowledge
The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) is presenting a conference in Ottawa Oct 27-29, 2006 on the future of Intellectual Property: From Friday, October 27 to Sunday, October 29, 2006, academic staff, students, policy makers and members of the general public will gather to discuss and debate the place of intellectual property in the…
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Thoughts on privacy and libraries and social networks
OK, actually I’m mostly curious about your thoughts, ’cause I haven’t sorted mine out yet. This post is a result of the social network stuff Brian Mathews has been working on (honest, this will be the last time I mention him today, unless he does something else interesting ;-). When I first saw Brian’s post…
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Documentation from the TAL Federated Search Symposium
A month ago I wrote a summary of my thoughts on a Federated Search Symposium I had attended, and that post generated a lot of comments. The sponsor of the Symposium, The Alberta Library, has just announced that all the documentation from the symposium is now available on their website, and there’s some really useful…
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Access Copyright And Creative Commons Canada Launch Public Domain Registry
As brought to my attention by colleagues here, here and here, Access Copyright (our version of the US Copyright Clearance Center) and Creative Commons Canada have announced a partnership to establish a public domain registry. They’re going to use MediaWiki to "create an online, globally searchable catalogue of published works that are in the Canadian…
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Podcasting at the U of Calgary
Nope, not me, but D’Arcy pointed me to this press release that announces the U of Calgary is going to introduce podcasting to four courses this summer and fall, involving about 700 students. Apparently we will the first university in the country to officially integrate podcasting into the curriculum this way. Not sure if we’re…
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Distance Ed and redistribution of TV footage
A brief blurb in the Chronicle of Higher Education Blog about how the Library Copyright Alliance is fighting against the latest incarnation of the broadcast flag, arguing that is “could counteract the Technology Education and Copyright Harmonization Act, which allows educators and libraries to transmit material from news and entertainment programs to students over the…
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Digital Rights Management Primer for Librarians
As noted on BoingBoing, Mike Godwin has written a DRM primer for librarians. It’s a 44-page PDF hosted on the ALA website. Haven’t read it yet, but if/when I need it, now I know where it is. Digital Rights Management – a Guide for Librarians. Technorati Tags: DRM, copyright