Category: Legal
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Putting your money where your mouth is
Last week I wrote about indie publishing innovator MCM's challenge to TV viewers in the US to watch the US premiere of his cartoon, Rollbots. Well the results are in, and it looks like he'll be donating nearly $10,000 to the EFF!!! In addition, and perhaps even more significant, he'll be relinquishing all copyright claims…
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Tune In September 2: The Google Book Scanning Project–Issues and Updates
Educause Live presents:Topic: The Google Book Scanning Project—Issues and UpdatesDate: September 2, 2009Time: 1:00 p.m. EDT (12:00 p.m. CDT, 11:00 a.m. MDT, 10:00 a.m. PDT). International participants: You may wish to visit this external time-conversion website to calculate the start time in your time zone.Duration: 1 hour For about five years, Google has been scanning…
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No place for state in our hard drives?
U of Calgary affiliate Kris Kotarski has a thought-provoking op-ed in the Calgary Herald about the Copyright/DRM debate that’s about to be reborn here in Canada. “Simply put, if society settles on laws enforcing copyright provisions such as a ban on breaking DRM locks on CDs and DVDs, or taking down SIM locks on cellular…
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Yet another followup post on Harvard and EBSCO linking
Peter Murray at Distruptive Library Technology Jester (aka DLTJ) has done a bunch of reading and thinking about the recently-hot issue of Harvard Business School Publishing charging extra to allow the use of persistent URLs in course reserves and content management systems. in his post, EBSCO in Cahoots With Harvard Business Press, he goes in…
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A little more info on the Harvard linking BS
Following up on yesterday’s post about Harvard Business School Publishing not allowing PURLs within EBSCO, I received an email from a librarian at a small school who pointed out that the following appears at the bottom of each HBS publication within Business Source Premier/Complete: “Harvard Business Review Notice of Use Restrictions, May 2009 Harvard Business…
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Harvard Business School Publishing not allowing UK libraries to build PURLs in EBSCO – are we next?
Just read a couple of deeply troubling posts at Libreaction and the library staff blog at the University of Lincoln in which librarians are crying foul over what appear to be mafia tactics by Harvard Business School Publishing. According to the Libreaction post: For a few years now HBSP have been requesting payments of as…
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Many libraries are lending Kindles
While we wait to see if BYU will reinstate their Kindle lending program, take a look at the list of libraries that are still lending them put together by iReaderreview. I's not just a list; there's a fair bit of supporting content in the post. Kindle, Libraries
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Download Your YouTube Videos Legally
Amit at Digital Inspiration points out that you can now download your YouTube videos legally. But the emphasis is on YOUR videos. The best tool I know for being able to download all YouTube videos, and in the format of your choice, is KickYouTube.