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Copyright Protection, Technological Change, and the Quality of New Products: Evidence from Recorded Music since Napster (PDF) Recent technological changes may have altered the balance between technology and copyright law for digital products. While file-sharing has reduced revenue, other technological changes have reduced the costs of bringing creative works to market. As a result, we […]
New: Director of U.S. Copyright Office Announces Priorities, Special Projects for Next Two Years
Archives and Special Collections, Conference Presentations, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Preservation
|From a Summary: Register of Copyrights Maria A. Pallante today made public her office’s priorities and special projects through October, 2013. The paper articulates 17 priorities in the areas of copyright policy and administrative practice, as well as 10 new projects designed to improve the quality and efficiency of the U.S. Copyright Office’s services in […]
New Issue Online: College and Research Library News (C&RL News, October 2011)
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, New Issue, News
|Direct to Complete Table of Contents & Links to All Full Text Articles C&RL News October 2011; 72 (9) Articles Include: Lifelong learning requires lifelong access: Reflections on the ACRL Plan for Excellence by Joyce L. Ogburn What are we doing here, anyway?: Tying academic library goals to institutional mission by Janet R. Cottrell Textbook […]
From the USPTO: The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced that its nationwide network of Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries (PTDLs) will become known as Patent and Trademark Resource Centers (PTRCs) on October 1, 2011. The name change signifies a major shift in focus from the “paper depository” concept to an expansion […]
Research Library Issues (No. 276) Now Online
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, News
|Complete Research Library Issue (Single PDF) or Research Library Issues (HTML) Source: Association for Research Libraries Articles (PDF) Include: “Ahead of the Storm: Research Libraries and the Future of the Research University” Author: Heather Munroe-Blum, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, McGill University “Collecting Small Data” Authors: Karen Hogenboom, Numeric and Spatial Data Librarian, University of Illinois at […]
From the U. of Michigan Public Affairs Office. Eleven questions and answers about book digitization at the school focusing on orphan works. Here’s one question and answer. Q: Has the lawsuit altered the university’s digitization efforts or the Orphan Works Project? A: No. We continue to digitize the works in our collection, and we continue […]
Conference Paper: "The Song of the Sirens: Google Book's Project and Copyright in a Digital Age"
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
|Title: The Song of the Sirens: Google Book’s Project and Copyright in a Digital Age (15 Pages; PDF) Working Paper Version Authors: Clarice Castro Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Catholic University of Pernambuco Ruy De Queiroz Federal University of Pernambuco Source: SSRN Presented at: A Decade In Internet Time: OII Symposium On The Dynamics Of The […]
U-M's Paul Courant on AG Lawsuit: "We Have Not Changed Our Plans or Activities in Any Way"
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Reports
|From the University of Michigan Record (a Publication from the Office of the Vice President of Communications): The U-M Library continues to operate its nascent Orphan Works Project “because we remain as certain as ever that our proposed uses of orphan works are lawful and important to the future of scholarship and the libraries that […]
The Financial Times has published a nearly 800 word obit about eBook founder, public domain advocate, and so much more, Michael Hart. It’s available with an FT subscription or with a free registration (for a limited number of articles). The obit includes comments by Hart from 2006 email interview he did with Richard Poynder. Direct […]
New by Dan Cohen: "The Fight Over the Future of Digital Books"
Awards, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Publishing
|“The Fight Over the Future of Digital Books” is a new article on the The Atlantic web site, by Dan Cohen, winner of the 2011 Kilgour Award from OCLC and director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University (the people who bring us Zotero and many other cool […]