Category: Legal
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Canadian Library Association Disappointed with New Copyright Legislation
Press Release (Ottawa, June 12, 2008) – Today, the Canadian Library Association (CLA) expressed disappointment with the government’s newly announced copyright legislation, Bill C-61. Bill C-61 is a missed opportunity and demonstrates that the government did not consult adequately with the user community, and did not listen to the concerns of Canadians. Overall, the Bill…
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Canadian Copyright Amendment Bill coming tomorrow (Thursday)
Government of Canada to Table Bill to Amend the Copyright Act OTTAWA, June 11, 2008 — The Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of Industry, and the Honourable Josée Verner, Minister of Canadian Heritage, Status of Women and Official Languages, and Minister for La Francophonie, will deliver brief statements and answer media inquiries shortly after the tabling…
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Shrinking Books, Shrinking Fair Use
Peter Brantley has a really thought-provoking piece on his blog entitled Shrinking Books, Shrinking Fair Use, in which he wonders (via Scott Walker at UIUC) how Fair Use (and Fair Dealing) will work when content routinely becomes unbundled. The rule of thumb for a book, for instance, is that you can use 10% or a…
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E-Books in Research Libraries: Issues of Access and Use
“There is a danger that research libraries are adding e-books to their collections using agreements that significantly reduce users’ rights. There is some urgency to improve this situation before it becomes a de facto standard. The Task Group on E-Books makes two recommendations to the CARL Copyright Committee: to create or endorse a statement of…
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People and adults…
This week's TWIT (This Week in Technology) podcast was a particularly good one for anyone interested in copyright and the PATRIOT act. Brewster Kahle kicked things off with a discussion of his fight against a National Security Letter that was served to the Internet Archive. According to Brewster there have been approximately 200,000 of these…
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How a Lawsuit Over Electronic Reserves Could Affect Colleges
From the Chronicle’s Wired Campus, Laura N. Gassaway, associate dean for academic affairs and a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law, says that a lawsuit recently filed against Georgia State University regarding electronic reserves could have implications for how colleges distribute course material online. Full post.
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Open Doors and Open Minds: What faculty authors can do to ensure open access to their work through their institution
SPARC and Science Commons have released “Open Doors and Open Minds: What faculty authors can do to ensure open access to their work through their institution.” The new white paper assists institutions in adopting policies that ensure the widest practical exposure for scholarly works produced, such as that adopted by the Harvard Faculty of Arts…
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‘Abortion’ is no longer a stopword
And now the Chronicle reports, The Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health has reversed itself and will no longer block searches for the term “abortion” in its popular public health database Popline. Searches for the word had been blocked because of concerns over federal financing. Technorati Tags: censorship, Johns_Hopkins, Popline
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‘Abortion’ is a stop word!
Holy crap! Article from The Chronicle of Higher Ed describing how the word ‘abortion’ is now a stopword in the Popline database. Meaning you can’t search for it. That’s insane! oooh, except if you go now, you CAN search on that word. Yay for the interwebs! Technorati Tags: censorship
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Why Copyright? Michael Geist at the University of Calgary
Earlier this week, Dr. Michael Geist spoke here at the University of Calgary, on copyright, of course. The title of his talk was Why Copyright? and was a discussion of both why copyright is a hot topic in Canada right now, and why it should be a hot topic. With his permission, I recorded the…