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  • Apple's Evil Sabotage

    Copyfight
    26 Jan 2012 | 2:50 pm
    Right, I did promise (at least if you're reading me on Google+) another update on the Apple vs e-books situation. Last week ZDNet published a couple of... shall we say... strongly worded columns on Apple's behavior with its iBooks. The columns, by Ed Bott, are titled respectively "Apple's mind-bogglingly greedy and evil license agreement" and "How Apple is sabotaging an open standard for digital books." Gotta love a guy who doesn't mince words. What Bott and lots of other less-vitriolic writers are up in arms about is Apple's iBooks 2.0. I mentioned this little gem a couple days ago with…

  • Petition the Copyright Office - Remix Culture

    Copyfight
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:01 pm
    Copyfight spent a lot of time in 2010 talking about remix culture. But even though the remix has now thoroughly soaked into the social consciousness it still needs legal reforms and exemptions to support it. Boingboing pointed me to "Rip. Mix. Make" an online petition to the US Copyright Office. The petition is organized by Kirby Ferguson, known for "Everything is a Remix", and the EFF. The petition is approaching 2000 public signatures as I write this, and needs more voices to be heard. The target of the petition is the Copyright Office's existing (but about to expire) exemptions allowing…

  • Guide to Finding Interesting Public Domain Works Online by the Open Knowledge Foundation

    Creative Commons » Commons News
    Jane Park
    25 Jan 2012 | 1:01 pm
    The Open Knowledge Foundation has published a nifty guide on the basics of Finding Interesting Public Domain Works Online. You can skim the guide in well under ten minutes, and it includes useful links and accompanying descriptions to online collections where PD works can be found, including Europeana, the Internet Archive, and Project Gutenberg. It also contains quite a few references to Creative Commons and succinct explanations of the relevant CC tools, such as the Public Domain Mark and the CC0 Public Domain Dedication. The guide, like all articles at The Public Domain Review, is…

  • Research Works Act - HR 3699 - Stealing From the Public Domain?

    Copyright Litigation Blog
    24 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Golan v. Holder last week, bills like the Research Works Act, which is designed to restrict access and limit sharing of scientific data, become more ominous.   More on the Research Works Act from Wikipedia here.   The full text below.Congressman Darrell Issa and Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney are co-sponsors.Richard Poynder's take here and here. The American Association of Publishers is behind this apparently legislation.112th CONGRESS1st SessionH. R. 3699To ensure the continued publication and integrity of peer-reviewed…

  • Google dashboard

    Coyle's InFormation
    17 Jan 2012 | 11:59 am
    Google has an ad in today's New York Times. Over a half page (and with lots of white space), it is a cartoon of a guy up to his waist in water calling a plumber. The plumber who answers says: "I'm on my way. See you in 15 hours." The rest of the text goes:"You live in Peoria. Do you really need a plumber from New York? We didn't think so.... That's why search engines, including Google, give you results based on your city or region. They can do this by using your computer's IP address. It's a number like 209.85.229.147, which acts like a zip code to tell them the rough area your computer is…
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    Copyfight

  • Petition the Copyright Office - Remix Culture

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:01 pm
    Copyfight spent a lot of time in 2010 talking about remix culture. But even though the remix has now thoroughly soaked into the social consciousness it still needs legal reforms and exemptions to support it. Boingboing pointed me to "Rip. Mix. Make" an online petition to the US Copyright Office. The petition is organized by Kirby Ferguson, known for "Everything is a Remix", and the EFF. The petition is approaching 2000 public signatures as I write this, and needs more voices to be heard. The target of the petition is the Copyright Office's existing (but about to expire) exemptions allowing…

  • Apple's Evil Sabotage

    26 Jan 2012 | 2:50 pm
    Right, I did promise (at least if you're reading me on Google+) another update on the Apple vs e-books situation. Last week ZDNet published a couple of... shall we say... strongly worded columns on Apple's behavior with its iBooks. The columns, by Ed Bott, are titled respectively "Apple's mind-bogglingly greedy and evil license agreement" and "How Apple is sabotaging an open standard for digital books." Gotta love a guy who doesn't mince words. What Bott and lots of other less-vitriolic writers are up in arms about is Apple's iBooks 2.0. I mentioned this little gem a couple days ago with…

  • USPTO and Prior Art

    26 Jan 2012 | 9:13 am
    Tim O'Reilly pointed to this PDF from the US Patent and Trademark Office regarding Fair Use. It seems that various scientific and technical publishers are raising objections to the USPTO using their publications for prior-art searching. The PDF lays out the Office's position and policies around fair use. It's actually somewhat complicated but the document does a good job of describing things: In some cases, the Office has subscriptions and other forms of paid access. In others it's making use of public sources, or submissions by applicants. In some cases, the Office is providing copies of…

  • What the Hell is Up with Copyrights in the UK?

    25 Jan 2012 | 10:52 am
    I freely confess that I'm even more ignorant of how the UK regulates copyright than I am about how the US does. They're a signatory to Berne, obviously, and work-for-hire is not legal there. But beyond that I'm pretty ignorant, and I find myself utterly boggled by two stories out of the isles this week. In the first story, the BBC reports that student Richard O'Dwyer has lost his appeal and is set to be extradited to the United States for copyright infringement. The Beeb has the sense at least to put 'piracy' in quotes because even if O'Dwyer is guilty of everything he's charged with, all he…

  • Y Kill Hollywood

    25 Jan 2012 | 6:55 am
    Y Combinator is Paul Graham (and partners') early-stage seed-funding organization. Part angel investor, part venture capital introduction, and part hip techster scene, it often has an impact well beyond the small amounts of capital it invests in early stage companies. Graham is also a respected essayist on the Web in his own right. So when Y Combinator puts up something called "RFS 9: Kill Hollywood" that gets some raised eyebrows. The page appears to be a response to the recent fracas over SOPA/PIPA and Hollywood's insistence that its 1960's-era business models are deserving of special legal…
 
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    Creative Commons » Commons News

  • Guide to Finding Interesting Public Domain Works Online by the Open Knowledge Foundation

    Jane Park
    25 Jan 2012 | 1:01 pm
    The Open Knowledge Foundation has published a nifty guide on the basics of Finding Interesting Public Domain Works Online. You can skim the guide in well under ten minutes, and it includes useful links and accompanying descriptions to online collections where PD works can be found, including Europeana, the Internet Archive, and Project Gutenberg. It also contains quite a few references to Creative Commons and succinct explanations of the relevant CC tools, such as the Public Domain Mark and the CC0 Public Domain Dedication. The guide, like all articles at The Public Domain Review, is…

  • Final Public Comment Period on LRMI Draft Specification

    Greg Grossmeier
    24 Jan 2012 | 2:01 pm
    As you may recall, the LRMI project is creating a educational metadata vocabulary that will hopefully plug into the Schema.org metadata framework to be used by the major search engines. Last week, the LRMI Technical Working Group released version 0.7 of the LRMI specification and with it, began the last public comment period ending January 31st. Barring any issues that need to be addressed, this will be the version that is submitted to the Schema.org community for review and inclusion. Please provide any input on the LRMI mailing list or on the web forum at LRMI.net.

  • Job Opportunity: Senior Accountant at Creative Commons

    Jane Park
    23 Jan 2012 | 2:33 pm
    In addition to our search for a CTO, we have posted a position for a Senior Accountant. The Senior Accountant will report to the Controller and be responsible for essential duties such as Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports—and more! day in the life: lunch money / emdot / CC BY The position is located in the lovely California Bay Area at our Mountain View office, open until filled.

  • Contribute to Open Education Week

    Cable Green
    21 Jan 2012 | 3:20 pm
    Open Education Week 5-10 March 2012: Call for participation. Please fill out the Open Education Week contributor’s form by January 31, 2012. Join your colleagues around the world to increase understanding about open education! Open Education Week will take place from 5-10 March 2012 online and in locally hosted events around the world. The objective is to raise awareness of the open education movement and open educational resources. There are several ways you and your organization can be involved: 1. Provide a pre-recorded informational virtual tour of your project, work, or organization.

  • Job opportunity: Chief Technology Officer at Creative Commons

    Jane Park
    18 Jan 2012 | 8:39 am
    mlinksva / CC BY It’s a new year, which means it’s also the perfect time to re-start our search for Chief Technology Officer at Creative Commons! Mike Linksvayer, Vice President and former CTO, says, “This is a fun job (I was Nathan’s predecessor, from 2003-2007) that offers technical, management, and communications challenges and opportunities for growth and impact… Now is an incredibly exciting time to lead the technology efforts of Creative Commons — be part of a great team, help communities yearning to share better and more effectively (e.g., see our new…
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    Copyright Litigation Blog

  • Research Works Act - HR 3699 - Stealing From the Public Domain?

    24 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Golan v. Holder last week, bills like the Research Works Act, which is designed to restrict access and limit sharing of scientific data, become more ominous.   More on the Research Works Act from Wikipedia here.   The full text below.Congressman Darrell Issa and Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney are co-sponsors.Richard Poynder's take here and here. The American Association of Publishers is behind this apparently legislation.112th CONGRESS1st SessionH. R. 3699To ensure the continued publication and integrity of peer-reviewed…

  • Murder, Mystery and Egon Schiele's Dead City February 8 at Jewish Federation of San Antonio

    23 Jan 2012 | 2:00 pm
    Thanks to the Federal Bar Association and the Jewish Federation of San Antonio, I will be speaking at the Jewish Federation of San Antonio on February 8 about Egon Schiele's Dead City and the mystery and litigation that it has spawned since District Attorney Robert Morgenthau seized it in 1998 at the Museum of Modern Art.The MoMA's possession and concealment of artworks stolen from Holocaust survivors has come under fire recently, check out William Cohan's MoMA's Problematic Provenances in December ArtNews here.For more stolen art by Egon Schiele at the MoMA visit Art Stolen from Fritz…

  • Due Process of Law, First Amendment and Copyright Law: SOPA and PIPA's Effects

    23 Jan 2012 | 7:30 am
    Great video by TED's Clay Shirky explaining how SOPA and PIPA undermine the First Amendment, creativity, and due process of law.  A frightening vision of Americans being transformed back into mindless consuming couch potatoes, with a great concrete example of child creativity being stifled by abusive copyright claims.More on TED (Technology Entertainment Design) hereThanks to Techdirt for pointing this out. www.dunnington.com Purchase Copyright Litigation Handbook 2011 by Raymond J. Dowd from West here   Find Ray Dowd at Dunnington Bartholow & Miller LLP Copyright…

  • New Petition to White House To End ACTA Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

    22 Jan 2012 | 10:10 pm
    If you thought SOPA and PIPA were bad, they have nothing on ACTA, which hands over copyright law and policy to an unaccountable trade collective.I have posted in the past on ACTA, learn more here and here.Here is the text of a petition to the White House to end ACTA, the link is here if you would like to sign it.   https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/end-acta-and-protect-our-right-privacy-internet/MwfSVNBKwe petition the obama administration to:End ACTA and Protect our right to privacy on the InternetThe Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, is a…

  • Are SOPA and PIPA Necessary To Shut Down Rogue Websites?

    22 Jan 2012 | 12:21 pm
    Thanks to Anonymous for commenting here on my Megaupload post yesterday and for explaining that one of the rationales for the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act is that this legislation is purportedly necessary because there is allegedly no remedy against rogue websites that operate offshore.I immediately went to Chapter 7 of my Copyright Litigation Handbook and found the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd., 243 F.Supp.2d 1073, 1087 (C.D.Cal.2003) case.   As I recalled, that court found that Grokster/Kazaa had subjected itself to jurisdiction…
 
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    Coyle's InFormation

  • Google dashboard

    17 Jan 2012 | 11:59 am
    Google has an ad in today's New York Times. Over a half page (and with lots of white space), it is a cartoon of a guy up to his waist in water calling a plumber. The plumber who answers says: "I'm on my way. See you in 15 hours." The rest of the text goes:"You live in Peoria. Do you really need a plumber from New York? We didn't think so.... That's why search engines, including Google, give you results based on your city or region. They can do this by using your computer's IP address. It's a number like 209.85.229.147, which acts like a zip code to tell them the rough area your computer is…

  • Bibliographic Framework: RDF and Linked Data

    11 Jan 2012 | 10:38 am
    With the newly developed enthusiasm for RDF as the basis for library bibliographic data we are seeing a number of efforts to transform library data into this modern, web-friendly format. This is a positive development in many ways, but we need to be careful to make this transition cleanly without bringing along baggage from our past.Recent efforts have focused on translating library record formats into RDF with the result that we now have:    ISBD in RDF    FRBR in RDF    RDA in RDFand will soon have    MODS in RDFIn addition there…

  • Google Book Search Redux

    2 Jan 2012 | 10:28 am
    The document I referred to in the previous post would have been so much clearer if I had read the two preceding documents. Now that I have, the story is even more dramatic.On December 12, 2011, the Author's Guild filed a fourth amended complaint (PDF) against Google. This complaint is nearly identical to the first one, filed on September 20, 2005 (PDF). The two complaints between these (October 28, 2008 and November 16, 2009) included the Association of American Publishers, as did the two attempts at settling the case. (October 28, 2008, and November 13, 2009). The publishers had had their…

  • Google files motion to dismiss

    26 Dec 2011 | 4:16 pm
    "The claims of the associations should be dismissed without leave to amend because they lack standing as a matter of law, since they do not themselves own copyrights and do not meet the test for associational standing set forth in Hunt." p. 19With that conclusion, Google has filed a motion asserting that the copyright infringement lawsuits filed by the Authors' Guild and the American Society of Media Photographers, Inc. be dismissed. The arguments made in the document are:"Individual copyright owners' participation is necessary to establish a claim for copyright infringement." (p.1)"Plaintiff…

  • National Library of Sweden and OCLC fail to agree

    22 Dec 2011 | 3:23 pm
    In a blog post entitled "No deal with OCLC" the National Library of Sweden has announced that after five years they have ended negotiations with OCLC to become participants in WorldCat. The point of difference was over the OCLC record use policy. Sweden has declared the bibliographic data in the Swedish National Catalog, Libris, to be open for use without constraints."A fundamental condition for the entire Libris collaboration is voluntary participation. Libraries that catalogue in Libris can take out all their bibliographic records and incorporate them instead into another system, or use…
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    Plagiarism Today

  • Eps 226 – Mega Takedown

    Jonathan Bailey
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:27 pm
    It is Friday again and that means that it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show. This week Patrick is reporting to us from the road and, due to a slow Internet connection, we couldn’t do the chat in front our live chat audience. However, it’s a good thing Patrick made time out of his busy travel schedule to talk because with this much copyright news, there’s no way we could have done two week’s worth next time! This week we talk about the closure of Megaupload and the shakeup its caused in the cyberlocker scene. SOPA and PIPA are formally shelved…

  • 3 Count: Mega-Lawsuit

    Jonathan Bailey
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:47 am
    Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Spanish Group Looks to Sue FBI Over Megaupload File Loss First off today, the Pirate Party in Spain is attempting to rally former Megaupload users to file a lawsuit against the FBI for seizing the site and, in the process, denying them access to their files. The FBI, which shuttered Megaupload last week on allegations of copyright infringement, racketeering and money laundering, took offline millions of files that were stored on the service, at least some of which were not copyright infringing. The government…

  • Distil: The Anti-Scraping Content Protection Network

    Jonathan Bailey
    26 Jan 2012 | 1:00 pm
    I’ve talked a lot on Plagiarism Today about the dangers of scraping including both RSS scraping, where someone copies the content in your RSS feed and, usually, republishes it elsewhere, and site scraping, where search-engine like crawlers grab your site’s content for various purposes. Defending against scraping, however, is incredibly difficult. Though some plugins and tolls like Bad Behavior for WordPress and simple blocking of bots can help, they aren’t perfect or complete solutions and in some cases, can deeply drain both your time and your site’s resources.

  • 3 Count: Dotted Line

    Jonathan Bailey
    26 Jan 2012 | 12:06 pm
    Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Poland Signs International Copyright Treaty That Has Sparked Days of Protests First off today, Poland, along with a series of other EU countries including Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Romania and Greece, signed the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) despite protests in many of the countries. The agreement seeks to harmonize piracy and counterfeit enforcement between various countries and has been previously signed by the United States, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. The…

  • 3 Count: Bail Denied

    Jonathan Bailey
    25 Jan 2012 | 11:43 am
    Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 1: Megaload Founder Kim Dotcom Denied Bail on US Charges First off today, Megaupload founder and CEO Kim Dotcom has been denied bail by a New Zealand court. Dotcom was arrested, along with six employees, after U.S. authorities moved to shutter his site over allegations of copyright infringement, racketeering and money laundering. According to the judge, Dotcom was a flight risk due to his wealth, international connections and history of fleeing charges. If convicted of the charges he faces, Dotcom could be…
 
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    Beyond the Book

  • PW’s Week Ahead 01.27.12

    rob@burstmarketing.com (BurstMarketing)
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:01 am
    Returning from ALA’s midwinter meeting, which included the annual presentations of the Caldecott and Newbery prizes, PW’s Features Editor Andrew Albanese notes the number of issues facing libraries these days —from budget stress and complex technology, to copyright and legislative issues. “But no issue has loomed larger for libraries than the lending of library e-books,” he tells CCC’s Chris Kenneally. At a meeting of the ALA’s Working Group on Digital Content and Libraries, ALA executive director Keith Fiels announced that ALA officials had set up meetings in New York for next…

  • BTB #276: Publishers Face Future With Growing Concern

    rob@burstmarketing.com (BurstMarketing)
    24 Jan 2012 | 9:54 am
    This morning, on opening day of the 2012 Digital Book World Conference + Expo, James L. McQuivey, Ph.D., Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, detailed a survey of publishing executives that sees declining enthusiasm about their business chances in the e-book era. “People are generally optimistic still, but that optimism is waning,” McQuivey told CCC’s Chris Kenneally shortly before he spoke to more than 1400 editors, executives, and technologists. “Publishers have started to do the hard work of making the digital transition and they’re finding that it is,…

  • BTB #275: Copyright On the Continent

    rob@burstmarketing.com (BurstMarketing)
    23 Jan 2012 | 10:46 am
    It’s a decade since the European Commission set out to create a uniform regime in Europe for intellectual property rights. For the tenth anniversary of that important effort – the 2001 InfoSoc Directive – the Commission presented in 2011 a new strategic approach, linking promotion and protection of IP rights as a way to boost creativity and innovation. “One of the things the Commission said they would focus on was to push for a solution for multi-territorial licensing in Europe,” Victoriano Colodron of RightsDirect, CCC’s European subsidiary, explained to CCC’s Chris Kenneally.

  • BTB #274: Measuring the E-book Market

    rob@burstmarketing.com (BurstMarketing)
    22 Jan 2012 | 12:00 pm
    The e-book revolution is underway, and moving beyond North America. Using actual data – and not forecasts – The Global eBook Market: Current Conditions & Future Projections, is considered an important step to understanding the global impact of this watershed publishing moment. “We saw that reading devices, as well as tablet devices, have been very, very popular Christmas gifts in Europe,” explains author Ruediger Wischenbart, a Vienna-based journalist and consultant specializing in book publishing and the cultural industries. “So, we have quite a significant environment now,…

  • PW’s Week Ahead 01.20.12

    rob@burstmarketing.com (BurstMarketing)
    20 Jan 2012 | 12:01 am
    In a week that saw Apple go to school, lawmakers on Capitol Hill watched Wikipedia go dark in opposition to the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act. When the lights came back up, there was a new gunslinger in town. “The tech business has shown that its lobbying machine has some game with the way it turned so many lawmakers around,” PW’s Andrew Albanese tells Chris Kenneally about the impact of the SOPA protests. “The public values its Internet. Clearly. And by provoking this kind of response … my fear is for a setback for reasonable anti-piracy legislation, which we can all agree, is…
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    LibraryLaw Blog

  • Pornography and Internet Filters By Grayson Barber Hat tip: Martin Gomez, LA Public Library

    Mary
    10 Jan 2012 | 12:36 pm
    Pornography and Internet FiltersBy Grayson BarberHat tip: Martin Gomez, LA Public Library Recently the Los Angeles Times published two editorials on the presence of pornography in libraries. Ordinarily, one might expect a leading newspaper to take a hard First Amendment line, upholding the right of library customers to read anything in a library so long as it is legal. Instead, the Times described libraries walking “a tightrope." The editorials acknowledged the deep discomfort many of us feel when we are inadvertently exposed to unwanted pornographic images. Oddly, though, when a man was…
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    DigitalKoans

  • Technical Architect for Library Content Discovery and Delivery—Library Acquisitions at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

    Charles Bailey
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:04 pm
    The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library is recruiting a Technical Architect for Library Content Discovery and Delivery—Library Acquisitions. Here's an excerpt from the ad: Reporting to the Head of Acquisitions, the Technical Architect for Library Content Discovery and Delivery will collaborate with members of Library Information Technology, Content Access Management, Acquisitions, and Electronic Resource Support to plan and implement critical technology integration solutions between units that create the digital content and those that acquire, license, purchase, and…

  • Digital Preservation: Report on Decision Factors and Their Influence on Planning

    Charles Bailey
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:03 pm
    The Scalable Preservation Environments project has released the Report on Decision Factors and Their Influence on Planning. Here's an excerpt: This report sheds light on the actual decision criteria and influence factors to be considered when choosing digital preservation actions. It is based on an extensive evaluation of case studies on preservation planning for a range of different types of objects with partners from different institutional backgrounds. We analyse objective trees from a number of real-world decision making instances and classify the objectives and decision criteria. We…

  • Manager Software & Systems Engineering, Online Library Environment at University of Virginia Library

    Charles Bailey
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:02 pm
    The University of Virginia Library is recruiting a Manager Software & Systems Engineering, Online Library Environment. Here's an excerpt from the ad (posting number: 0609299): The Manager of Software and Systems Engineering is responsible for leading the design and implementation for the Library's priorities for access, retrieval, and use of digital content within the Online Library Environment. The position works closely with Library directors, selectors, and other stakeholders to assure a high level of coordination/communication regarding these efforts and to ensure work is…

  • Ten Library, Publishing, and Advocacy Organizations Oppose the Research Works Act in Letter

    Charles Bailey
    26 Jan 2012 | 10:01 pm
    Ten library, publishing, and advocacy organizations have opposed the Research Works Act in a letter sent to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the U.S. House of Representatives. Here's an excerpt: We fully respect copyright law and the protection it affords content creators, owners, and users. The NIH Public Access Policy operates fully within current U.S. Copyright law as articles reporting on NIH funded research are copyrightable, and the copyright belongs to the author. The NIH Policy requires only the grant of a non-exclusive license to NIH, fully consistent with…

  • Current News: Twitter Updates for 1/25/12

    Charles Bailey
    25 Jan 2012 | 10:05 pm
    New Petition Asks White House to Submit ACTA to the Senate for Ratification, http://bit.ly/yuMUph PIPA And SOPA Were Stopped, But the Web Hasn't Won, http://huff.to/zuMFnU Guide to Finding Interesting Public Domain Works Online, http://bit.ly/xYLcSL Online Social Network Seeks to Overhaul Peer Review in Scientific Publishing, http://bit.ly/zHi3ee The OA Interviews: Francis Jayakanth of India’s National Centre for Science Information, http://bit.ly/wexSIN | Digital Scholarship |
 
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    Digitization 101

  • SLA Leadership Summit: Notes on running an effective meeting via conference call/video conference

    26 Jan 2012 | 9:25 am
    These are notes from this morning's brainstorming session (not in order of importance):Set a agenda with time limits for each item.Establish rules for meetings.Use Robert's rules or other agreed upon rules for running the meeting (be consistent). To set a meeting time, use Timeanddate.com (international meeting planner) and/or Doodle.com.Know which items you need a decision on.Know who is supposed to be voting.On the phone? Mute yourself.Ask specific people on the "call" for their comments.Don't just use last month's agenda.Is there nothing to report? Take it off the agenda.If your item isn't…

  • My January - July 2012 schedule (or at least how it looks now)

    18 Jan 2012 | 10:00 am
    Besides teaching graduate classes at Syracuse University (SU), I will be attending (and sometimes speaking at) these events during the first half of 2012:SLA Leadership Summit, Jan. 25-28 (with SLA Board of Director meetings on Jan. 24-25), InterContinental Buckhead Hotel, Atlanta, GAFirst Mondays / A Conversation with Jill Hurst-Wahl, Feb. 6, Solvay Public Library, Solvay, NY - I will be talking about careers, providing career advice, and discussing the book  The Information and Knowledge Professionals Career Handbook.  Participants are encouraged to bring questions.Computers in…

  • Event: DigCCurr Professional Institute: Curation Practices for the Digital Object Lifecycle

    17 Jan 2012 | 9:55 am
    As received in email. Registration Now Open! DigCCurr Professional Institute: Curation Practices for the Digital Object Lifecycle Supported by IMLS Grant Award #RE-05-08-0060-08 and the School of Information and Library Science, UNC-Chapel HillMay 20-25, 2012 & January 7-8, 2013 (One price for two sessions)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Visit http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr/institute.html for more information. REGISTRATION LINK: http://cfx.research.unc.edu/res_classreg/browse_single.cfm?New=1&event=612E21BE7477F79D361921C40901D94BE49885E1The Institute consists of one five-day…

  • Proposed U.S. Laws - SOPA and PIPA

    15 Jan 2012 | 2:40 pm
    More is being written each day about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA).  In an effort to point you toward helpful information, I am providing the links below.  (I have included a couple of pro-SOPA/PIPA pieces, so you can hear the "other side".)  If you are in the U.S., please use these are a place to start educating yourself.Why are people opposed to these proposal?  While the bill names (or nicknames) sound like something that would be helpful, each could be used to stifle free speech.  In addition, they would give…

  • For New Yorkers: Notes from the Regents Advisory Council on Libraries, Jan. 12

    12 Jan 2012 | 10:59 am
    These are my informal notes from today's conference call meeting of the Regents Advisory Council on Libraries.First, here is text that I wanted to share from the minutes of the December RAC meeting:Update on Funding/Staffing for the State Library. The Cultural Education Fund, a special revenue fund which supports the Office of Cultural Education and the ongoing operations of the State Library, State Archives and State Museum is still in deficit - $12.7 million. Budget restrictions continue to be extremely tight. No staff positions have been filled or backfilled in the State Library since…
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  • Your iPhone Has To Be Made In China, And Apple Can't Absolve Your Guilt

    Tom Krazit
    28 Jan 2012 | 12:20 am
    “For a quarter of a century, Washington and Wall Street have wanted China to become an integral part of the world economy. Their wish has been granted, and now it’s time to come to grips with the implications.”—Jeffrey Garten, Yale, June 2002 (BusinessWeek) Ten years after those words were written we still find ourselves wringing our hands over how much American prosperity is derived from Chinese manufacturing. A series of articles from The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) this week on Apple’s tricky relationship with the company that builds the iPhone and iPad makes…

  • Ad Agency Sues Herman Cain Over Book Cover Photo

    Jeff Roberts
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:24 pm
    A new lawsuit claims a former Republican presidential candidate used a photo without permission for the cover of his biography, This is Herman Cain! In a complaint filed Thursday in Atlanta, Adventure Advertising says Cain and his team agreed to pay $1,050 to use three photographs in campaign materials. The agency claims that the Cain campaign later asked permission to use a high-resolution image of one photo for the cover of the book. The agency says it never gave the necessary permission but that the book was published anyways. Adventure Advertising is asking for profits from the sale of…

  • Report: Facebook IPO Could Arrive Next Week With Hopes Of $10 Billion

    Tom Krazit
    27 Jan 2012 | 1:12 pm
    The long-awaited Facebook IPO might arrive as soon as next week, according to a new report. When the company does get around to filing the paperwork it will set Facebook on the path toward one of the richest IPOs in tech history. Facebook could raise as much as $10 billion when shares of its stock are sold to the public, and the usual “people familiar with the matter” are telling the Wall Street Journal that the first step could come by next Wednesday. It is believed to be preparing an offer that values the company between $75 billion and $100 billion, according to the report.

  • Jesta Digital Finally Kills Bitbop Mobile Video Service

    Ingrid Lunden
    27 Jan 2012 | 12:20 pm
    It looks like the death spiral that was the Bitbop mobile video service is finally no longer. PaidContent understands that the service—once built and owned by News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS) and sold, along with the rest of Fox Mobile, to IT services company Jesta when News Corp. couldn’t make a business out of it—is today laying off most of the staff that worked on Bitbop and shutting down the service. According to a source, there are about 50 people getting laid off—people who worked on the Bitbop mobile video service. A small group will stay on to help with the final…

  • Former Palm CEO Rubinstein Leaving HP After Demise Of WebOS

    Tom Krazit
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:52 am
    Jon Rubinstein, the former Palm CEO who revived the company under WebOS but was never able to produce a breakthrough product after HP paid $1.2 billion for Palm, is leaving HP (NYSE: HPQ). His departure is not exactly a surprise, coming six months after he was reassigned just before HP began to wind down its mobile strategy. Rubinstein, a former Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) executive who played a key role in the development of the iPod and the iPhone, had been working in a fuzzy role within HP’s Personal Systems Group after ceding day-to-day control of the WebOS business unit to Stephen DeWitt in…
 
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  • It’s 2012. Does anyone still care about copyright?

    23 Jan 2012 | 2:21 pm
    Unlessyou were living in a cave last week, you know the answer to this question. Regardlessof your view of the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) or Protect IP Act(PIPA), it is clear that most people instinctively believe that contentcreators have a right to monetize their work. There is a general consensus that piracy is wrong.   The realdebate is about how to make acts of piracy rare outliers without inhibiting theviral flow of content across the internet. Everyonewants his or her ideas and creations heard, promoted in some way large orsmall, and to receive proper reward…

  • The Long Tail of Syndication

    27 Sep 2011 | 4:02 pm
    Safely Distribute Your Content to a Universe of Web Sites. Get Paid for Every View. Track theLifecycle of Your Creative Works.  For as long as publishers have been creating freshcontent, others have wanted to reuse and republish that content (withattribution of course).  Why should everypublisher cover the same story when the facts are the same and the interest isuniversal?  Why not allow your brillianteditorial to shine on many pages? Why not extract new revenue from a resourceyou’ve invested time and money in?Big publishers have been syndicating their content…

  • Does Your Web Site Suggest that Your Content is Free for the Taking?

    24 Aug 2010 | 3:45 pm
    The Print Email Share buttons adjacent to your copyrighted content may indeed suggest to your readers that they are free to reuse your content in any way they choose. Worse, a reader who reposts or redistributes your content (perhaps even profiting from it) may defend his or her actions by asserting that your article tools facilitated and even encouraged the reuse.Yikes.If you care about protecting your content from misappropriation and unauthorized distribution, you must read Wendy Davis’s “Blogger Sued by Copyright Troll Argues He Had ‘Implied License’” on MediaPost. Like any…

  • iCopyright Processed Four Million Instant Licenses in 2009

    31 Dec 2009 | 3:24 pm
    It's that time of year to assess how we did over the last 12 months and set goals for the New Year. The iCopyright system processed four million instant licenses in 2009, a 400% increase over 2008. As I write this on December 31, 2009, the system is processing about 25,000 licenses each day. At this rate, we should hit 10 million instant iCopyright licenses in 2010. "10 in 10," a catchy goal statement.Most companies would be thrilled with this kind of growth. I am not. I look forward to the day when iCopyright is processing one million instant licenses each and every day. I won't be…

  • What's Happening at iCopyright?

    15 Dec 2009 | 9:12 pm
    It has been such a busy Fall, we have not had much time to blog or post news releases. A number of colleagues have emailed us to ask what's going on. No news is usually good news, but so many things are happening these days, people want to know if we are keeping up. We like to think we are running ahead! Here's a brief summary of what we have been doing:New Publisher AccountsA major focus for the company is always on bringing new publishers live. New live accounts include Dow Jones Reprints, The Canadian Broadcast Corporation…
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  • Wants to Use Heinz Quote

    The Dear Rich Staff
    27 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    Dear Rich: There is a very well-known quote by someone named Heinz von Bergen (often found online as "Heinz V. Bergen"), which reads as follows:"Information is the seed for an idea, and only grows when it's watered." I have searched far and wide on the Internet for some source that would clarify if this quote is in the public domain, and/or information on Heinz von Bergen himself. We don't mean to offend, but this quote sure sounds like the kind of thing Steve Carrell might spout on an episode of The Office.  Anyway, does information (which is a collection of facts)…

  • Old Band Videos: No Releases

    The Dear Rich Staff
    26 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    Dear Rich: We have extensive old video footage of bands (a lot of it is over 15 years old) that I have been dubbing and want to try and do something with online and try and make a little cash. The bands were aware we were filming and had the option to purchase the masters, but chose not to. Could these be considered our art as we shot them and physically possess them. Most of the bands are now defunct and it would probably be hard to track them down for a release form, as most of our dealings were verbal agreements. If we start to do new ones, I would get a release from the band, but even if…

  • Can We Require Positive Uses Only?

    The Dear Rich Staff
    25 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    Dear Rich: We would like to add some "usage" language regarding an electronic (on a flash drive) media kit that will contain artwork, photos and logos. The language would let the media know that they can only use the downloadable items in a "positive, non-defamatory manner." Is there "boiler plate" language that I can use for this purpose? If your goal is to prevent people from using your copyrighted materials for anything other than "positive, non-defamatory" purposes, we think you need to rethink your goals. It's a little bit like a music company telling a  music reviewer she can…

  • Is the Warhol Banana Public Domain?

    The Dear Rich Staff
    24 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    Dear Rich: I read that the Andy Warhol banana is in the public domain. Does that mean anyone can use it? The Dear Rich Staff is so old that we remember when our friend, Paul Dodd, bought the 1967 Velvet Underground album, The Velvet Underground and Nico. The cover featured a peel-able banana (underneath the yellow banana skin was a flesh colored banana). Alas, subsequent pressings weren't peel-able. The image was so popular that VU fans eventually referred to the recording as the "Banana Album."PD or not PD? The Warhol image on the cover may now be in the public domain -- at…

  • Ryan Gosling Memes: Infringing?

    The Dear Rich Staff
    23 Jan 2012 | 10:48 am
    Dear Rich: I read your explanation about using paparazzi photos and it made sense. But then how do you explain the Ryan Gosling meme? I assume that most of the photos that are being used were taken by professional photographers, and I doubt if many of the web sites and Tumblr accounts that have been spreading them are paying for permission to use the images. How can you know when it is ok to use an image without getting permission? For those over-worked readers who are always late to the viral party (and perhaps still not familiar with Rebecca Black, Obama Girl, and LOLcats), the Ryan Gosling…
 
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