Category: Legal
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BYU suspends Kindle program over legal concerns
Sometimes it’s a problem pushing the envelope – seems that the BYU Library initiative to use Kindles instead of getting books via ILL has been suspended after “some buzz on library-related blogs for breaking ground in the uncertain area of lending books on the Kindle.” “We are playing it safe,” Layton said. “Two people here…
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Brigham Young Library Tests Kindle as ILL Alternative
Gerrit van Dyk, Document Delivery Services Manager at Brigham Young University, blogs about their new initiative to loan Kindles to faculty members instead of trying to obtain new material via ILL. You can also read a brief article about this at Library Journal. Kindle, ILL, BYU
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EFF Teaching Copyright Curriculum
The Electronic Frontier Foundation recently launched a website called Teaching Copyright "to help teachers present the laws surrounding digital rights in a balanced way." In five distinct lessons, students are challenged to: Reflect on what they already know about copyright law. See the connection between the history of innovation and the history of copyright law.…
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This time we mean it! – Google to sell e-books
The New York Times is reporting that Google plans to begin selling ebooks by the end of 2009. "In discussions with publishers at the annual BookExpo convention in New York over the weekend, Google signaled its intent to introduce a program by that would enable publishers to sell digital versions of their newest books direct…
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Geist calls out the Conference Board of Canada
In his post, The Conference Board of Canada's Deceptive, Plagiarized Digital Economy Report, Michael Geist points out how much of a recent Conference Board of Canada report appears to be plagiarized from the International Intellectual Property Alliance (the primary movie, music, and software lobby in the U.S.). Michael asks the following questions: For Anne Golden,…
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More on Libraries and eBooks
Following up on my earlier post about licensing issues around ebooks and libraries, Sue at No Shelf Required discusses the same Teleread post: Is it possible to donate an eBook to the library? In the comments, Dan D'Agostino mentions he's got a new blog on his (collection development librarian) perspective of eBook reader technology at…
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In which the public learns about licensing
Teleread has an interesting post entitled How to give away an ebook after you’ve read it in which the author suggests people purchase ebooks for their local library rather for themselves, thus allowing multiple people to read the book (once the original purchaser has had a chance to read it). Sounds like a great idea,…
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Introducing RefMobile
From the Press Release (PDF): Introducing RefMobile RefMobile is a version of RefWorks for mobile and smart phones, as well as PDAs, that allows you to access and view your references, manage folders and even add information to the Notes field of your references. In addition to being able to access and manage your references,…
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Intellectual Property laws are faith-based initiatives
Finished listening to a great interview of James Boyle on episode 73 of the Spark podcast. The episode examines copyright, the public domain and remix culture, and was one of their best, IMHO. The title of the post is a paraphrase of something James Boyle says right at the 15-minute mark where he's lamenting how…
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Magic Sharing Box – USE IT!
Wow, hard to believe it was 2.5 years ago that I wrote about The Pig and the Box! Surely you remember the story of the pig named Pig who finds a magic box that can replicate anything? Well this kids book about the folly of Digital Rights Management (aka DRM) is being reprinted (here’s the…