Category: Legal
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Sirsi Corporation and Copyright Clearance Center Partner
Another copyright post. Direct linking to Copyright Clearance Center’s online permission services from Sirsi Resolver, an OpenURL resolution system, enables librarians and staff to secure copyright permission for ILL, reserves, document delivery, and other uses. Sirsi Resolver provides access to a variety of electronic resources; the integration enables librarians and staff accessing that electronic content…
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The Government of Canada Announces Upcoming Amendments to the Copyright Act
Holy cow, they actually listened! Others can fill you in much more eloquently than I (Laura J. Murray, Michael Geist) but in a nutshell Canada was contemplating changes to copyright law that would both make Canada the laughingstock of the Internet, and throw distance education back into the pre-internet dark ages as far as document…
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Call for contributors – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning
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Hello reader! (I’m kidding, I know there are at least three of you out there!) I’m looking for your help. I recently agreed to assume the editorship of the eServices in Libraries column for the Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, and I’m looking for contributors for the column. I have several…
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Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
Wow, talk about convoluted! This was mentioned in ResearchBuzz, and I pass it on here for anyone who’s maybe doing digitization projects for their distance students… Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
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Canadian Copyright Concerns
Ever send your distance students a link to a website? Michael Geist has an interesting legal piece in the Toronto Star entitled . In it, he discusses a recent parliamentary committee report (44 page PDF) on copyright reform that, if adopted, would mean that Canadian educational institutions would be required to seek permission to use…