Digital versus Digitized: On the Hachette v. Internet Archive Appeal Oral Argument
One thing that would dramatically clarify the controlled digital lending concept in general and the Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit in particular is hav...
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Controlled Digital Lending…What’s the Fuss?
On March 16, 2023, I gave a presentation with this title to the code4lib conference in Princeton, New Jersey. The suggested links from the end of the presen...
Issue 99: Copyright for Generative Artificial Intelligence (ChatGPT, DALL·E 2, and the like)
Cecil Mae Feather, 1929–2023 This issue is offered in honor of Cecil Mae Thornburg Feather, my mother-in-law. Cecil Mae w...
Issue 87: Ukraine War, Artificial Intelligence Art
We are one week into Russia’s war against Ukraine. From here in America, it is hard to understand the reality of a country whose citizens seemed to be going...
Thursday Threads: Mobile Device Encryption, Getty Images for Free
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> Just a brief pair of threads this wee...
Interesting Shibboleth Use Case: Enforcing Geographic Restrictions
Last month's HathiTrust newsletter had an interesting technical tidbit at the top about access to out-of-print and brittle or missing items: One of the lawfu...
Thursday Threads: Open Source Advocates Twitch at Blackboard’s Strategy and Effect of Copyright/DRM on Access
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> Thursday Threads has been a back-burn...
AIME v UCal Decision Says Streaming Equivalent to Public Performance
The title of this post was updated (replacing "Display" with "Performance") a day after it was originally published. See the update at the bottom of the pos...
Thursday Threads: Authors Guild Sues Hathi Trust, Libraries Learn from Blockbuster, Publisher’s View of Self-Publishing
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> Legal action against the digitization and limit...
Thursday Threads: Google’s Social Strategy, Big Data, Patriot Act outside U.S., Frightening Copyright Revisited
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> It might have been the week of the an...
Thursday Threads: RDA Test Results, Author’s Rights Denied, Future Copyright Scenario
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> This week we got the long-awaited rep...
Thursday Threads: HarperCollins, Google Book Search Settlement, DPLA, Juggling Robots
It is another e-books issue of DLTJ Thursday Threads with updates on three significant efforts: HarperCollins, Google Book Search Settlement, Digital Public...
Google Book Search Settlement Rejected
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Thursday Threads: Free Music Scores, Hiring for Attitude, National Broadband Map
[caption id="attachment_2673" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Hickory, with true-to-life parting attitude (left) and Mittens"][/caption] This week's T...
Thursday Threads: Website Accessibility Reporting Service and Remixes in Film
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads: by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner This week's DLTJ Thursday Threads has just two pointers. First, a new ...
Thursday Threads: Ebooks in Libraries, Prognostications for the Year, Open Source Adoption, Public Domain Day
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> The turn of the year brings commentar...
Thursday Threads: Digital Reference Librarians, First Sale Danger, Open Access, Data Modeling
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads: by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner When I say " is a question answering system. A question can be posed...
Thursday Threads: OCLC Moves to Dismiss SkyOCLC, UCLA Sued For Streaming, Paving Cow Paths, Origins of #
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Thursday Threads: Refining Data, Ebook Costs, Open Bibliographic Data, Copyright Infringement
UPDATE - 22 November 2010: The saga of Illadore (Monica Gaudio) and Cooks Source Magazine (Judith Griggs) draws to an end, with the closing of Cooks Source M...
Revised Google Book Search Settlement from a Library Perspective
Late, late in the day last Friday, the principle parties in the Google Book Search case submitted a revised settlement agreement agreement to the court. Thi...
Google’s Watching What We’re Doing – At Least In Aggregate
An interesting thing happened at my place of work (OhioLINK) today. We recently added links to our central catalog pointing to manifestations in Google Book...
Google Book Search Privacy, Orphan Works, and Monopoly
A few weeks ago, a reporter at the Chronicle of Higher Education interviewed Adam Smith, Google's director of product management, about the Google Book Searc...
EBSCO in Cahoots With Harvard Business Press
A controversy is starting to pick up in the business librarian community -- primarily in the U.K. it would seem -- regarding the licensing demands of Harvard...
Library Associations File Amicus Brief for Google Book Search Settlement
The American Library Association (through the Association's Washington Office and the Association of College and Research Libraries Division) and the Associa...
Intervention by IA Denied; Deadline for Objections Extended
New York Judge Denny Chin recently issued two rulings in the Google Book Search settlement. In the first, he ' the request by the Internet Archive to interv...
On How Physical and Electronic Differ for Library Materials
I'm reading the notes from the Atlanta OLE Project regional workshop and right up at the top are these two statements that struck me as insightful. The firs...
What Does the Google Book Settlement Mean for the Online Book Market?
The blog post title is a serious question -- it is one that I need some help figuring out: What Does the Google Book Settlement Mean for the Online Book Mar...
H.R.801 Threatens Open Access Requirement for Gov’t Funded Research
The Alliance for Taxpayer Access called out the introduction of proposed legislation that would prohibit the federal government from requiring publication of...
OCLC Review Board’s Blog
There is a new page in the Record Use Policy area on the OCLC website with an invitation from Jennifer Younger, chair of the Review Board, inviting members o...
Members of the OCLC Review Board Announced
OCLC announced late yesterday the members of the review board. In addition, they announced the establishment of an e-mail address for communicating with the...
On the Role of WorldCat and -Please- Open Up the Discussion
Nearly a week after it was posted, I came across a posting by Karen Calhoun of OCLC summarizing her impressions of the ALCTS Forum at Midwinter. I thought I...
Correction Added to Guardian Story on OCLC Record Use Policy
Last week, The Guardian newspaper in the U.K. published a story on the proposed OCLC record use policy and the controversy surrounding the proposal. As the f...
Further Consideration of OCLC Records Use Policy
At ALA Midwinter, ALCTS sponsored a panel discussion about sharing library-created data inside and outside the library community, with a particular focus on ...
Consideration of OCLC Records Use Policy
At ALA Midwinter, ALCTS sponsored a panel discussion about sharing library-created data inside and outside the library community, with a particular focus on ...
Preliminary Court Approval of Google Book Settlement; Final Approval Hearing Set
The Associate Press reported on Monday evening that the court has given preliminary approval to the settlement negotiated between Google and book authors and...
Google Book Search Settlement: Public Access Service
One of the very relevant aspects of the Google Book Search Settlement Agreement to libraries is the provision that allows for free public access to the full ...
Is OCLC’s Change of WorldCat Record Use/Transfer Policy Related to the Google Book Search Agreement?
Update On the Code4Lib IRC channel Thursday afternoon, Roy Tennant, Senior Program Officer at OCLC Programs and Research, said that there is absolutely no co...
Google Book Search Settlement: Reviewing the Notice of Settlement
Beyond the public pronouncements of the Google Books Settlement ((See the bottom of this earlier post on DLTJ for a complete list)) are the documents that fo...
Google Book Search Settlement: Introduction, Public Announcements
Announced today was a settlement between Google and the plaintiffs -- the Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers and individual authors and pu...
Two Lectures on Copyright and Fair Use Today
Spotted in the Chronicle of Higher Education Online this morning is mention of two lectures by Wendy Seltzer that will happen today on the topic of copyright...
Demonstrating the Mouse’s Absurd Copyright Practices by Using the Mouse’s Work
Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University demonstrates principles of fair use to give an overview of U.S. copyright principles in A Fair(y) Use Tale -- a 1...
Fair Use Versus the NFL with YouTube Caught in the Middle
Here is something to keep an eye on. Via the Chronicle of Higher Education, Wendy Seltzer, a visiting assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School and Fellow ...