Library Schools and the Copyright Knowledge Gap
Years from now, once we gain the benefit of perspective fostered by temporal separation, those of us who are concerned about libraries may look back at 2005 and declare it a watershed year. Certainly,...
View ArticleDecision Summary: Publishers v. Georgia State University
This article discusses the impact of a the recent federal district court decision [pdf] that, for the first time, provides colleges and university with some guidance on the use of copyrighted works for...
View ArticleOccupy Copyright
“I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore!’ Things have got to change. But first, you’ve gotta get mad!” — Howard Beale, Network (1976) 2011 will be known as the year of the...
View ArticleInformation Policy and The Red Herring of a Media-Tech Industry War
In an article published earlier this year, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor Sandra Braman defined “information policy” as positions and practices that concern the creation, processing,...
View ArticleHathiTrust Decision Summary
In September 2011, the Authors Guild, various international authors' rights organizations and one dozen individual authors sued HathiTrust, Cornell, and the presidents of the universities of Michigan,...
View ArticleThe Coming Copyright Clash in Higher Education
Colleges and universities, however, have a major trump card to play to reduce the costs of higher education: they can reverse their longstanding custom against claiming work made for hire status....
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