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Searcher
July 2005
Laura Gordon-Murnane |
Generosity and Copyright: Creative Commons and Creative Commons Search Tools Librarians now have a useful tool they can use to help identify content that patrons might want to use in a podcast, a mash-up, a collage, a video contribution to a blog, a document, a presentation, or whatever.   |
Information Today
October 18, 2010
Susanne Bjorner |
Creative Commons Releases Public Domain Mark Creative Commons announced the release of a tool that enables works free of known copyright restrictions to be labeled in a way that clearly communicates that status to the public and allows easy discovery of such works on the internet. |
Search Engine Watch
March 3, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Finding Free Content in the Creative Commons The Creative Commons search engine can help you find tons of (legally) free stuff on the web, such as photos, music, text, and books. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2006
David Kushner |
Uncommon Law An interview with Lawrence Lessig, founder and chair of Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that lets copyright holders, from musicians to engineers, grant flexible use of their work on his plans to launch the Science Commons with the hopes of expanding into the world of research. |
Information Today
June 3, 2002
Wallys W. Conhaim |
Creative Commons Nurtures the Public Domain Creative Commons is a new nonprofit organization that develops alternative approaches to handling copyright licensing and encouraging contributions to the public domain within the framework of the current copyright system. |
Searcher
December 2002
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Just Can't Hardly Give It Away: Generosity Versus Copyright Many do not want to give up their copyright and the financial return on their creative work, but a growing number of creators do want to make their creations freely available. |
InternetNews
March 24, 2005
Tim Gray |
Yahoo Offers Creative Commons Search Yahoo Creative Commons will help developers and site owners find content published by authors willing to share or reuse it. |
Scientific American
February 14, 2005 |
Beyond the Big How copyright became "no right to copy." Overly strong property rights can threaten the Internet as a medium capable of fostering dynamic interchange of ideas. |
InternetNews
June 21, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
Microsoft's Creative Copyright Move Software giant Microsoft said it will offer a free tool for Office users to embed Creative Commons copyright options in Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. |
Information Today
March 10, 2015
Abby Clobridge |
'Every Week Is Fair Use Week' Similar to Open Access Week, Fair Use Week is a loosely organized, week long event during which libraries, universities, museums, archives, and individuals raise awareness about fair use. |
Wired
November 2004
Hilary Rosen |
How I Learned to Love Larry She was the champion of the music industry. He was the voice of the people. It was a deathmatch made in heaven, but they found common ground... Done right, copyrights can inspire the next digital revolution... |
Searcher
September 2012
Peter B. Hirtle |
Feature: When is 1923 Going to Arrive and Other Complications of the u.s. Public Domain The public domain has always existed, but the rise of digital and networked technologies has made it particularly important. Our copyright laws represent an agreement among powerful publishing and media interests that is intended to work for their mutual benefit. |
Information Today
November 27, 2006
Marji McClure |
Lisensa Poised to Raise Profile of User-Generated Content Lisensa launched this month with the goal of enabling bloggers to manage the copyright and monetization of their unique content. |
Information Today
June 16, 2011 |
YouTube Adds Creative Commons Attribution License YouTube added the Creative Commons Attribution license as a licensing option for users. |
Information Today
October 25, 2012
Abby Clobridge |
Copyright Clearance Center Launches Open Access Solutions On Oct. 11, 2012, the Copyright Clearance Center debuted its Open Access Solutions, a set of services aimed at supporting publishers in managing their journal content through the CCC's RightsLink platform. |
Information Today
March 9, 2009 |
Attributor and Creative Commons Launch FairShare Service This free service allows bloggers and individual content creators to understand how their work is shared across the web. |
Wired
December 2001
Lawrence Lessig |
May the Source Be With You The laws protecting software code are stifling creativity, destroying knowledge, and betraying the public trust. It's time to bust the copyright monopoly... |
Reason
November 2004
David G. Post |
Free Culture vs. Big Media In the book Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, author Lawrence Lessig leads the charge to retake the public domain. |
Searcher
March 2005
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Open Access: The Battle for Universal, Free Knowledge Many publishers are joining authors in permitting open access through self-archiving in institutional repositories. |
Information Today
September 12, 2011
George H. Pike |
Orphan Works Project to Scan Library Books for Online Database This Orphan Works Project could result in digital access to millions of out-of-print books, but it also runs a risk of violating federal copyright laws. |
Wired
November 2004
Thomas Goetz |
Sample the Future Rip, mix, burn. Swap till you drop. The music cops can't do a thing - it's 100 percent legal, licensed by the bands. The Wired CD, copyrighted for the 21st century. |
D-Lib
October 2003
Geneva Henry |
On-line Publishing in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities To understand where publishing is headed, we must consider the possibilities of what can be achieved with new technologies that enable the exchange of knowledge and information in unprecedented ways. |
D-Lib
May/Jun 2013
Jett et al. |
A Model for Providing Web 2.0 Services to Cultural Heritage Institutions: The IMLS DCC Flickr Feasibility Study The Flickr Feasibility Study was launched in 2009 to determine how aggregators might provide intermediary services for cultural heritage institutions wishing to engage in Web 2.0 initiatives, shed light on both needs and models for aggregation services. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2013
Fowler & Smith |
Drawing the Blueprint As We Build: Setting Up a Library-based Copyright and Permissions Service for MOOCs The rapid growth of Massively Open Online Courses in higher education has raised the question of what services libraries on campus can, and should, provide for these courses. |
Information Today
December 1, 2008 |
CCC Launches Ozmo for Online Content Licensing Copyright Clearance Center has announced the beta launch of Ozmo, a web-based service that makes it easy for independent content creators to license the use of their work for commercial purposes and for content users to tap into the user-generated content found online. |
Information Today
January 2, 2014 |
Springer Journals Get New Creative Commons License Beginning Feb. 3, 2014, a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license will apply to journals from BioMed Central, Chemistry Central, and SpringerOpen, which are all part of Springer Science+Business Media. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2014
Brook et al. |
The Social, Political and Legal Aspects of Text and Data Mining There is a vast literature describing research into, and applications of text and data mining, as well as the technical challenges. Relatively little has been written on the political, social and legal barriers involved. |
Information Today
December 2005
Keith Kupferschmid |
Are Authors and Publishers Getting Scroogled? A copyright analysis of the Google Print Library Project. |
D-Lib
November 2005
Kenneth Hamma |
Public Domain Art in an Age of Easier Mechanical Reproducibility Making visual reproductions of public domain art works available online for use and reuse without charge would likely benefit the collecting institutions and would contribute to the public good. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2014
Theron Westervelt |
Library of Congress Recommended Format Specifications: Encouraging Preservation Without Discouraging Creation The Library of Congress has devised the Recommended Format Specifications to enable it to identify what formats will most easily lend themselves to preservation and long-term access, especially with regard to digital formats. |
Linux Journal
July 2001
Lawrence Rosen |
Copyright Confusion Do I need to put a copyright notice on my software?... Can a software license restrict my ability to use software?... |
D-Lib
February 2006
Esther Hoorn |
Copyright Issues in Open Access Research Journals: The Authors' Perspective A survey reveals the desire on the part of academics to change the balance of rights within copyright between authors and publishers in scholarly communication journals. |
Information Today
February 2, 2009
Paula J. Hane |
Open Solutions for Libraries Gain Momentum LibLime, an upstart company that has provided open source software solutions for libraries for several years, has made its move to the next frontier of openness by providing open data and open library content. |
Information Today
March 2, 2009
Paula J. Hane |
Open Educational Resources (OER) and Libraries Openness is increasingly a characteristic of many sectors and technologies -- open access, open library, open source, open standards, open platforms, and more. |
D-Lib
December 2003
Bonita Wilson |
Open Access and Public Domain Those providing content on an openly accessible web site should make clear what content can be freely reused and what cannot. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2014
Chern Li Liew |
Participatory Cultural Heritage: A Tale of Two Institutions' Use of Social Media The purpose of this study is to examine how and to what extent cultural heritage institutions are currently using social media to create a culture of participation around their digital collections and services. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2003 |
Are You Breaking the Law? Copyright guidelines for video streaming and digital video in the classroom |
D-Lib
November 2006
Peter B. Hirtle |
Author Addenda: An Examination of Five Alternatives While not perfect, author addenda can be an important tool that authors can use to retain the rights they want or that their employing institutions request that they retain. |
Salon.com
August 31, 2001
Damien Cave |
Copywrong? A government report giving the Digital Millennium Copyright Act a passing grade is a disaster for the general public, say critics... |
Salon.com
April 15, 2002
Damien Cave |
In defense of copyright A top intellectual property lawyer argues that the Supreme Court's decision to review the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act is plain wrong... |
D-Lib
February 2000
Lynn Pritcher |
Ad*Access: Seeking Copyright Permissions for a Digital Age A description of the copyright issues faced by an academic institution wishing to place a library of advertisements on the Internet. Includes a description of their efforts to determine copyright holders and obtain permissions. |
D-Lib
February 2005
Pasi Tyrvainen |
Concepts and a Design for Fair Use and Privacy in DRM Examines contemporary digital rights management technology, which deals with controlling and managing digital rights over intellectual property, in the legal context of the European Union Copyright Directive (EUCD) and the U.S. |
Reason
July 2001
Mike Godwin |
Copywrong Why the Digital Millennium Copyright Act hurts the public interest... |
Information Today
June 6, 2011
Barbara Quint |
University of Michigan Libraries Target HathiTrust's Orphan Works Orphan works have been a thorn in the side of librarians, particularly academic librarians, forever. Orphans are in-copyright works for which current copyright holders are difficult or impossible to locate or perhaps even identify. |
D-Lib
June 2006 |
D-Lib -- In Brief The Personal Repositories Online Wiki Environment Project... The Credibility Commons... In the News... etc. |
Information Today
February 25, 2002
George H. Pike |
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Copyright Challenge Case On February 19, the U.S. Supreme Court gave an unexpected, late Valentine surprise to the copyright and publishing communities by agreeing to hear a challenge to the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act... |
Information Today
September 19, 2011
Barbara Quint |
The British Library to Change Licensing for Noncommercial, Non-U.K. Document Delivery The new service stems from a new framework license agreement supported by the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers and the Publishers Association. |
Information Today
January 19, 2012 |
Springer Open Choice Adopts Creative Commons Attribution License In 2004, the hybrid OA option Open Choice was launched at Springer with the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. Springer's Open Choice option allows authors to publish their articles with OA for the majority of its subscription-based journals. |
Information Today
October 7, 2014
Nancy K. Herther |
European Law Works to Move Copyright Into the 21st Century The European Court of Justice ruled that libraries, "for the purpose of research or private study," can digitize works as a legitimate fair use exemption to European Union copyright law, with some specific limitations. |
Information Today
August 26, 2014
Abby Clobridge |
New MOOC Teaches Educators and Librarians About Copyright Copyright for Educators & Librarians is one of a few new courses directly related to the work of librarians and information professionals. |
