LibWorm.com provides a librarian RSS filtering service. Over 1500 RSS librarian sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest headlines from journals and sites in the Copyright interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:54:56 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=15584 Dean of Library & Distance Education (McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, Illinois)   Responsible for providing leadership, development and implementation of services and programs for the Library, Distance Education, and Academic Computer Labs. ... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:20:02 +0100 868581 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/-dHvbT37r0U/  The photo at the left is by “legendarypoet” and I was struck by what a beautiful b&w shot it is, of a b&w e-reader.  Click on the image to see his original, or click on screen name to see his photo page. I spent time yesterday, by request, taking more comparison photos of font and text differences between the Kindle 3 and Kindle 2, and I’ll get some up later on. I’ll touch instead this morning on some subjects that have come up in comment-areas here and in topics being discussed on the various Kindle forums. FULLY CHARGE A NEW KINDLE One thing to know as you open the Kindle package is that you can read on the Kindle while it’s charging.  Give it a full charge when it’s new — it usually takes about 2 hours, as it already has some battery life remaining.  Mine was halfway down.  The bottom LED light turns a bright, solid green when done. Q & A HOW WILL I MOVE KINDLE BOOKS FROM MY OTHER KINDLE TO THE NEW KINDLE 3? Amazon’s few instructions (in an email you receive before getting your Kindle and instructions ON your Kindle) are brief but well written and cover most of what you need.  On the Kindle, the guide is named “Transferring Your Kindle Content” – and since your books and subscriptions content is in your personal area/library on Amazon’s servers, you’ll need to have the Wireless turned on in order to access those servers. For newcomers: With the Kindle, that’s done by pressing the Menu button and selecting the topmost choice, “Turn Wireless On” — and of course that slot toggles the choice, to turn it “Off” — to conserve battery power. ... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:27:22 +0100 868669 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/ke94mbEqUro/ This is a part of a post from author Lynn Viehl’s Paperback Writer blog.. It deserves to be read in full, but I must point out that I can’t verify anything that it contains: It’s been brought to my attention that Scribd.com has begun charging people to download my free e-books hosted on their site. To get around my copyright and the free distribution notice I’ve placed in each e-book, they are using an archive subscription scam to make their money (this also neatly avoids them having to pay me any royalties on the profits they make.) Evidently all the money they’ve been raking in from the Google ads they’ve posted on my e-book pages hasn’t been enough for them. I was not made aware of this new policy by Scribd at all; a reader kindly brought it to my attention. If you have free stories or documents hosted on this site, chances are they’re doing the same to you. I immediately contacted Scribd.com and demanded an explanation, which they provided at their leisure. Basically they washed their hands of any liability and ethics by telling me it was my problem, not theirs. In order to prevent Scribd from further profiting from my free books, I have to remove each e-book individually from their archives (for instructions on how to do this, see Scribd’s instructions here.) As I discovered this morning this is going to take a considerable amount of time for me to accomplish, and it’s not a permanent solution; they tell me I’ll have to check the documents regularly to see to it that they aren’t arbitrarily returned to the archive, where Scribd can then again start charging people to download them. I find the situation particularly ironic, as anyone can bootleg my work on the internet with no problem, yet when I try to give it away for free, greedy people still try to make a buck off it. Writers just can’t win. ... Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:07:05 +0100 868670 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/ZaHMEN3Ilv4/ This pressure by the US to keep the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement secret is unfathomable, especially in an Obama administration which professes more open government. Campaign contributions at work? From EurActiv: The United States is behind the wall of secrecy surrounding global trade talks to combat counterfeiting, say EU policy sources, who claim that American officials are refusing to let their European counterparts publish the draft agreement online. American officials blocked European attempts to publish the latest draft of the global Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) on an EU website after a Washington-based round of negotiations in August. The European Commission, which has been feeling the heat from lobby groups and the European Parliament for greater transparency in the negotiations, debriefed MEPs on the August negotiations yesterday (1 September). MEPs have been demanding to see the full negotiating text as they will be asked to give ACTA their consent in a vote later this year. “If we want to be leaders in the EU on transparency, we really have to put more pressure on our partners to have more transparency,” an Austrian Green MEP told EurActiv. Swedish MEP and Swedish Pirate Party member Christian Engström did not take part in yesterday’s debrief as he allegedly left a July meeting disgruntled that he could not distribute documents about the trade negotiations to fellow parliamentarians. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:00:07 +0100 868676 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kraftylibrarian/OLay/~3/1Ncy1KeD3dc/ Last week I sat in on the Springer LibraryZone Virtual eBook webinar and it was a very interesting discussion.   Many libraries (especially academic) are investigating and collecting e-books in lieu of some printed text.  How much they are collecting and the nature by which they to the selection process seems to vary according each library, their type, size, consortia involvement, usage data, etc.  The reasons why and how much they bought all varied but the frustrations, questions, and concerns the faced were very similar and seemed on the minds of every librarian regardless of their library, type, size, consortia involvement, etc.  So what were these concerns? DRM- Digital rights restrictions.  It seems that every publisher has different rules and while some things can be put on electronic reserve others cannot.  While some things can be shared through ILL or on Blackboard others cannot.  This is not only a particular frustration among librarians but also patrons who aren’t as savvy with copyright issues.  The patrons get frustrated with DRM restrictions for library materials and they are even more frustrated with the restrictions for e-books they buy themselves.  Their view is, “I bought, don’t tell me how I am allowed to use it.”  I am not saying this is always the right or wrong thought process, but it is their thoughts and to a certain extent librarians. Access – How do people find your e-books was a common question among the librarians.  The e-books publishers don’t always have decent MARC records (if they have any) that can be easily added to the catalog.  So the cataloger must work to add them into the catalog, yet more and more patrons really don’t use the catalog these days.  They would rather randomly search the library’s website or Google. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:10:53 +0100 868390 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FreakonomicsBlog/~3/TOfdD2uiiFQ/ University students are returning to campuses throughout the country. It is a migration that raises my spirits - seeing the energetic, eager faces tackling another course in contracts or intellectual property. But this year something is different. For the first time, a federal law has taken effect which requires "institution of higher education receiving Federal financial assistance" to provide students with information on textbook pricing. (Source: Freakonomics Blog) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:00:51 +0100 868242 http://www.teleread.com/2010/09/01/1906-chicago-manual-of-style-free-but-not-drm-free/ This month’s free e-book from the University of Chicago Press is a replica of the very first, 1906 edition of the Chicago Manual of Style to commemorate the 16th edition of that work. Of course, as with all University of Chicago Press free e-books, this book comes wrapped in Adobe Digital Editions DRM—even though, since it was originally published in 1906, this book is well within the public domain by now. (Oddly, I can’t seem to find any public domain version of it on-line, at least not in Project Gutenberg, Feedbooks, or Manybooks. There is a somewhat rough scan of a 1911 edition on Wikimedia Commons, however.) It’s a pity that this press—an academic press, yet, and thus part of an organization supposedly dedicated to advancing the spread of knowledge—should choose to impose technological restrictions upon a document that should legally be free to all. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:47:03 +0100 868282 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/4YACnoATvio/ This month’s free e-book from the University of Chicago Press is a replica of the very first, 1906 edition of the Chicago Manual of Style to commemorate the 16th edition of that work. Of course, as with all University of Chicago Press free e-books, this book comes wrapped in Adobe Digital Editions DRM—even though, since it was originally published in 1906, this book is well within the public domain by now. (Oddly, I can’t seem to find any public domain version of it on-line, at least not in Project Gutenberg, Feedbooks, or Manybooks. There is a somewhat rough scan of a 1911 edition on Wikimedia Commons, however.) It’s a pity that this press—an academic press, yet, and thus part of an organization supposedly dedicated to advancing the spread of knowledge—should choose to impose technological restrictions upon a document that should legally be free to all. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:47:03 +0100 868279 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6331 BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY Upcoming events and digital media // September 1, 2010 [1] [TUESDAY 9/7] Berkman Center Fall Open House (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/09/openhouse) [2] [CONFERENCE 9/25] "Media Law in the Digital Age: The Rules Have Changed, Have You?" Conference in Atlanta, GA (http://csjconferences.org/medialaw/) [TUESDAY] BERKMAN CENTER OPEN HOUSE ================================================================================== Tuesday, September 7, 6:00 pm Ropes Gray Room, Pound Hall, Harvard Law School Campus (Map: http://bit.ly/poundmap) Free and Open to the Public Tell us if you're coming on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=140755442627336) or Twitter (http://tweetvite.com/event/berkmanopenhouse) Come to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s Open House to meet our faculty, fellows, and staff, and to learn about the many ways you can get involved in our dynamic, exciting environment. As a University-wide research center at Harvard University, our interdisciplinary efforts in the exploration of cyberspace address a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. If you're interested in the Internet’s impact on society and are looking to engage a community of world-class fellows and faculty through events, conversations, research, and more please join us to hear more about our upcoming academic year! Paid part-time research positions will be available in the fall, and you can visit http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/internships to see currently available positions. People from all disciplines, universities, and backgrounds are encouraged to attend the Open House to familiarize yourself with the Berkman Center and explore opportunities to join us in our research. We look forward to seeing you there! Refreshments will be served. For more information visit: http://cyber.law.harvard. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:31:14 +0100 868263 http://theipl.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/september-2010/ Welcome to the Link. Each month the ipl2 brings you some of the best information sites on the Internet. If you have an Internet connection, you can connect with us! The September edition of the Link is filled with birthdays and celebrations throughout the world. So join the party and explore the world through these colorful and informative websites! Suggest a site for the ipl2. Know of a great site, but you cannot find it in the ipl2? Use the form located at http://www.ipl.org/div/contact/ to let us know about good resources to add to our collections. September 1 – Independence Day Uzbekistan Uzbekistan: A Country Study “An historical overview and information on the geography, economy, government, transportation and telecommunications, foreign relations, national security, languages, religions, and people and society of Uzbekistan. Includes a glossary, a bibliography, and statistical tables. Searchable. “Completed [in] March 1996.” A part of the Web site Country Studies, from the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress.” Country Profile: Uzbekistan “Profile of this former Soviet country that is “positioned on the ancient Great Silk Road between Europe and Asia.” Includes demographic facts, historical overview, timeline of key events, and information about leaders and media. Site also includes links to related news stories, and audio of the national anthem. From the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).” September 2 – National Day Vietnam Country Profile: Vietnam “Profile of Vietnam, which “became a unified country in 1976.” Includes demographic facts, historical overview, timeline of key events, and brief listings of leaders and media outlets. Site also includes links to related news stories, audio of the national anthem, and video clips. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:22:29 +0100 868404 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/CQTdZsvuRRQ/ Katie Gatto at our sister blog Appletell has made a post explaining how to determine which e-books in your iTunes listing are DRM-protected and which are DRM-free. It is a useful little tutorial for those who are not sure (or, for that matter, bother to purchase iBooks titles in the first place). However, annoyingly, Gatto repeatedly conflates DRM with copyright. She begins the article with “If you want to know which of your ebooks are DRM free and which have been protected by copyright,” then mentions that this process “will let you know if a book has DRM protections or if you’re free to share it with others,” and says that if a book is listed as protected, “it has a copyright attached.” She then concludes, “Use accordingly to avoid lawsuits.” Of course, if you use according to her advice, you probably won’t be avoiding lawsuits. It should be needless to say that plenty of non-DRM-protected e-books (such as those sold by Baen, or posted online by Cory Doctorow) are fully copyright-protected—meaning that while you might be able to share them with friends, you are not necessarily legally free to unless the holder of the copyright allows it. Might a decreased understanding of copyright be one of the casualties of the media industry’s reliance on DRM? I didn’t think the fact that everything is copyrighted under current copyright law (including books, e-books, Internet posts, and even scribblings on the backs of napkins) was that hard to understand, let alone that foregoing DRM does not mean you are foregoing your right to protection under the law. Or perhaps peer-to-peer is to blame for this “anything not strictly forbidden must be permitted” attitude. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:15:00 +0100 868289 http://www.teleread.com/2010/09/01/how-to-for-determining-if-ibooks-are-drmed-misses-copyright-point/ Katie Gatto at our sister blog Appletell has made a post explaining how to determine which e-books in your iTunes listing are DRM-protected and which are DRM-free. It is a useful little tutorial for those who are not sure (or, for that matter, bother to purchase iBooks titles in the first place). However, annoyingly, Gatto repeatedly conflates DRM with copyright. She begins the article with “If you want to know which of your ebooks are DRM free and which have been protected by copyright,” then mentions that this process “will let you know if a book has DRM protections or if you’re free to share it with others,” and says that if a book is listed as protected, “it has a copyright attached.” She then concludes, “Use accordingly to avoid lawsuits.” Of course, if you use according to her advice, you probably won’t be avoiding lawsuits. It should be needless to say that plenty of non-DRM-protected e-books (such as those sold by Baen, or posted online by Cory Doctorow) are fully copyright-protected—meaning that while you might be able to share them with friends, you are not necessarily legally free to unless the holder of the copyright allows it. Might a decreased understanding of copyright be one of the casualties of the media industry’s reliance on DRM? I didn’t think the fact that everything is copyrighted under current copyright law (including books, e-books, Internet posts, and even scribblings on the backs of napkins) was that hard to understand, let alone that foregoing DRM does not mean you are foregoing your right to protection under the law. Or perhaps peer-to-peer is to blame for this “anything not strictly forbidden must be permitted” attitude. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:15:00 +0100 868288 http://www.teleread.com/2010/09/01/project-gutenberg-timeline-events/ From the Project Gutenberg News comes this article by Michael Hart: The latest Project Gutenberg Grand Total figures have just passed 37,500 titles this past month and will have 40,000 eBooks during our 40th year celebration, 1,000 a month over 40 years doesn’t sound like much, but we are on track right now to do 5,000 this year. We are currently giving away about 100,000 books a day, just through the one single site: http://gutenberg.org. About 3 million eBooks per month or 36 million per year. In 2000 USB flash drives were just getting started with 8M “IBM Memory Sticks” available for about $60 and also 16M and 32M size were available. Today 1,000 times as much memory, 8G, is available from over the counter stores for $20. I just bought a somewhat larger “terabyte pocket drive” for $75 over the counter. Larger is a relative term in this case, it’s still pocket-sized, but just requires a doubly larger pocket and the weight is noticeable and a “wall wart” power supply is required, so I should NOT think the term “pocket-sized would be appropriate but I bought it anyway, sight unseen, due to misunderstanding or being misled by the advertizing. Still, it’s no larger and not much heavier than a book, and it will hold 2.5 million such books in .zip format. Think for just a moment about how much a terabyte would cost you back in the year 2000, how much power it took, and how hard it would be to fill it up. Google wouldn’t even announce its “invention” of eBooks for about 5 more years, Project Gutenberg wouldn’t have 10,000 titles for another 2 3/4 years, so just think of the changes we have in store by 2020, the next decade. We should all be considering getting petabytes if we do have them already by then, and all of the findable book titles that are public domain should have been put into at least some eReadable formats, if not most or all. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:37:29 +0100 868303 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/TxrbEIk--ww/ From the Project Gutenberg News comes this article by Michael Hart: The latest Project Gutenberg Grand Total figures have just passed 37,500 titles this past month and will have 40,000 eBooks during our 40th year celebration, 1,000 a month over 40 years doesn’t sound like much, but we are on track right now to do 5,000 this year. We are currently giving away about 100,000 books a day, just through the one single site: http://gutenberg.org. About 3 million eBooks per month or 36 million per year. In 2000 USB flash drives were just getting started with 8M “IBM Memory Sticks” available for about $60 and also 16M and 32M size were available. Today 1,000 times as much memory, 8G, is available from over the counter stores for $20. I just bought a somewhat larger “terabyte pocket drive” for $75 over the counter. Larger is a relative term in this case, it’s still pocket-sized, but just requires a doubly larger pocket and the weight is noticeable and a “wall wart” power supply is required, so I should NOT think the term “pocket-sized would be appropriate but I bought it anyway, sight unseen, due to misunderstanding or being misled by the advertizing. Still, it’s no larger and not much heavier than a book, and it will hold 2.5 million such books in .zip format. Think for just a moment about how much a terabyte would cost you back in the year 2000, how much power it took, and how hard it would be to fill it up. Google wouldn’t even announce its “invention” of eBooks for about 5 more years, Project Gutenberg wouldn’t have 10,000 titles for another 2 3/4 years, so just think of the changes we have in store by 2020, the next decade. We should all be considering getting petabytes if we do have them already by then, and all of the findable book titles that are public domain should have been put into at least some eReadable formats, if not most or all. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:37:29 +0100 868302 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/60238 From the Announcement: (1 page; PDF) Three basic services available by dialing 1-877-476-0778. When you call the U.S. Copyright Office on its toll-free line, you will be given three choices. To request publications or get recorded information about copyright, press 1. To obtain technical support for online registration, press 2. To speak to an information specialist about [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:53:59 +0100 868319 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/60226 by Emily Williams From the Article: When paperbacks took off, through lucrative deals with paperback publishers, that became another right to carve out, as did film, and book club, and serials, and audio. Some of these rights — like film – are almost never sold to publishers anymore; others — like paperback — are still included [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:21:11 +0100 868325 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/newsroom/cmlp_csj_media_law_conference Citizen Media Law Project and Center for Sustainable Journalism Announce Conference Focused on Media Law in the Digital Age Cambridge, MA – August 31, 2010 – The Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University are co‐hosting a conference on September 25, 2010 entitled Media Law in the Digital Age: The Rules Have Changed, Have You? in Atlanta, Georgia. Designed for journalists, bloggers, and lawyers who work with media clients, the conference will be an opportunity to learn first‐hand the latest legal developments and to get your questions answered by experts in the field. The program will bring together legal practitioners, journalists, and academics to discuss the latest legal issues facing online media ventures. Topics will include: libel law, copyright law, newsgathering law, and advertising law, as well as the legal issues arising from news aggregation, managing online communities, and business law considerations for start‐up online media organizations. Small‐group workshops will focus on strategies for accessing government information and understanding legal terms in content licenses, freelancer contracts, and website terms of service and privacy policies. If you need personalized legal assistance before or after the conference, contact the Online Media Legal Network, a legal referral network for independent online media administered by the Citizen Media Law Project at the Berkman Center. For more information about the network, please visit its website: http://www.omln.org. Funding for the conference is being provided by the Harnisch Foundation, which has been a long‐time sponsor of the Center for Sustainable Journalism and recently provided a grant to the Berkman Center to support media law education. Visit the conference website for more information on the conference agenda, registration and logistics: http://csjconferences. ... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:30:00 +0100 867958 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/08/30/daily-tweets-2010-08-30/ Copyright, Ebooks and the Unpredictable Future http://icio.us/k5hucm # Testing Jan Velterop's Hunch about Green and Gold Open Access http://icio.us/vy50jx # First Results of the SOAP Project http://icio.us/q1g1xq # Institutional Repositories: The Promises of Yesterday, The Promises of Tomorrow http://icio.us/q0mbwt # Authors Publication Strategies in Scholarly Publishing http://icio.us/5irxkv # Colour Me Red – the Ingect System for Research Data Collections http://icio.us/no0bqd # Oxford English Dictionary "Will Not Be Printed Again" http://icio.us/yam2hl # Reason for Hope Survives in Academic Publishing Despite a Month of Bad News http://icio.us/i2iw5m # Elsevier and Royal Tropical Institute Sign 5 Year Memorandum of Understanding http://icio.us/khtalh # (Source: DigitalKoans) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867653 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/31/libraries-coalition-volunteers People who know how borrowing books helped to transform their own lives now need to hold their councils to accountNaturally, those who most loved libraries as children are now their most articulate supporters. Some were dismayed by Margaret Hodge's report on public libraries earlier this year, which praised the network as "a triumph of infrastructure and branding". In the coalition era, they may be equally crestfallen at the Future Libraries Programme's promise of "customer service improvement opportunities" in Greater Manchester.Do not be deceived by the familiar jargon. The government's current vision is very different from Lady Hodge's. The 10 projects are testbeds for many of the ideas that the coalition would like to apply to other public services. Two London boroughs are considering a merger of their library provision. Suffolk wants community groups to manage them. Most controversially, some of Bradford's books could be moved into shops. Lady Hodge's excellent suggestion that a library card be issued automatically to every baby has been ignored. More understandably, her enthusiasm for ebook lending – which sounds pleasingly modern, but is fraught with copyright and technical obstacles – has also gone. National guarantees are out; cheaper offerings, aimed specifically at the communities they serve, are in.Recruiting more volunteers to help run libraries is a laudable idea (though it may well come at the expense of professional librarians' jobs). Only 15,000 people currently volunteer.The internet has made some of libraries' traditional functions almost redundant, as well as driving down the cost of books for those who can afford them. Yet given the pressures they face, libraries have held up rather well: 83m children's books were issued last year, which represents around 90% of the number lent out a decade earlier. The same period has seen broadband installed in every library and a boom in reading groups. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:05:11 +0100 867635 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/30/intellectual-property-searchinfo-site-ip-com-upgrades-search-functionality-adds-ibm-redbooks-as-non-patent-literature-collection/ From the Website: …a significant upgrade to our patent search engine technology. The new engine provides faster results and supports an advanced syntax mode. For casual users, it provides improved results without using any special syntax. [Clip] We’re also pleased to announce the addition of the IBM Redbooks as a Non-Patent Literature collection. The Redbooks represent a unique source of technical art; we’re excited to bring the Library’s advanced searching and more-like-this capabilities to this material. IP.com Searching Overview + Text Search Overview + Text Search Advanced Syntax Details + Text Search Advanced Examples + More-Like-This Search Overview (Semantic Search) ++ Powered by Textwise From the About Page: The Intellectual Property Library, launched in December 2009, is a free international database of patent and patent-related publications. It’s goal is to encourage worldwide access to resources where innovators can easily locate and explore Intellectual Property (IP) including patents, technologies, and related art. The Library’s collections contain an ever increasing number of international patent databases as well as carefully selected non-patent literature (including our own Prior Art Database). The Library introduces some unique concepts in free online patent searching: + It is the first free access website to actively combine patent and non-patent prior art searching into a single resource. + In addition to a classic full text search engine, it also offers access to a sophisticated semantic search engine, creating unique abilities to rapidly locate related art. + It is one of the first websites outside of of the People’s Republic of China to enable free access to SIPO patent data. (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:51:26 +0100 867702 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/30/its-all-in-the-name-wiki-giants-on-a-collision-course-over-shared-name-wikipedia-wikileaks/ Confusion between one source and another is rather sad but not that infrequent. Also, in the web age the people say the source of an article they’ve read is Google News or Yahoo News not understanding that they aggregate but (in a majority of cases) don’t supply that much original content. Yes, both news engines clearly list the source but apparently some users do not pay attention. Go back ten years and it was the same thing with web browsers and search engines. In other words, “What Search Engine Did You Use?” The answer would be something like, “Netscape.” From an article in The Independent: …a “wiki” [Hawaiian for "fast"] is defined, at least in computing terms, as a website that allows the easy creation and editing of web pages, and the term has entered the vernacular as a result of two web behemoths – Wikipedia and Wikileaks. Now the two men most responsible for boosting your Hawaiian vocabulary, Wikipedia’s co-founder, Jimmy Wales, and the Wikileaks editor-in-chief, Julian Assange, seem to be having a gentle falling out. In an interview with The Independent, Mr Wales said he was getting a bit fed up of being blamed or praised for the other “Wiki” website. “I get a lot of emails from people who think I run Wikileaks,” he said. “There are people who say: ‘you are responsible for putting the lives of thousands of US troops at risk’, others seem to think I am some sort of freedom fighter, holding governments to account. “I just roll my eyes, chuckle to myself and tell them they’ve got the wrong man. Practically speaking, there isn’t anything I can do about the confusion between the two companies, I wish they had chosen a different name but I can’t go about trying to copyright the word ‘wiki’,” he said. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:35:03 +0100 867704 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FreakonomicsBlog/~3/HgTMGg5fAmo/ Kal Raustiala, a professor at UCLA Law School and the UCLA International Institute, and Chris Sprigman, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School, are experts in counterfeiting and intellectual property. They have been guest-blogging for us about copyright issues. Today, they write about new efforts to extend copyright law to the fashion industry. (Source: Freakonomics Blog) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:34:25 +0100 867461 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/2zE-DUisFmY/ Paul Carr’s current “NSFW” column (which is entirely safe for work; NSFW is just the column name) focuses on the recent announcements by authors such as Seth Godin that they are leaving traditional publishing to go it alone. Carr, who is very happy with his publishers (though it’s possible one of his publishers might not be happy with him), devotes a quite lengthy article to rebutting point by point the arguments in favor of ditching publishers. The article is quite long even to summarize, but a few of the points Carr covers include the issues of quality and editing, the added credibility that comes with having had books issued by professional publishers, support for things like marketing and copyright enforcement, and the differences in relative market size. Carr suggests that leaving publishers in favor of self-publishing makes sense for only two sorts of people: those who are already skilled marketers, like Godin, and those who fear they’re about to be dumped by their publishers anyway and want to save face by claiming to be “innovating”. I suspect that, as with most things, the truth lies somewhere in the middle. In any event, the next few years should reveal just how much sense self-publishing makes for most people. Related: Is the Open Content Alliance too corporate? Paul Carr slams Amazon one-star protest reviews Writer Paul Carr says the iPad will kill the Kindle – and reading too Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:15:00 +0100 867544 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/08/29/neh-awards-new-digital-humanities-start-up-grants/ The NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program has made 28 new awards. Here's an excerpt from the press release: American University — Washington, DC The Map of Jazz Musicians: an online interactive tool for navigating jazz history's interpersonal network Fernando Benadon, Project Director Outright: $49,777 To support: The development of an online tool to map connections and collaborations among American jazz musicians. Bank Street College of Education — New York, NY Civil Rights Movement Remix (CRM-Remix) Bernadette Anand, Project Director Outright: $25,000 To support: A series of workshops to plan the development of location-based smartphone applications about the African-American Civil Rights Movement based around sites in Harlem, NY. Boston University — Boston, MA Evolutionary Subject Tagging in the Humanities Jack Ammerman, Project Director Outright: $13,767 To support: A two-day meeting of humanities scholars, librarians, and computational analysis experts to consider how to improve existing cataloging software that attempts to better classify interdisciplinary humanities research. Brown University — Providence, RI A Journal-Driven Bibliography of Digital Humanities Julia Flanders, Project Director Outright: $49,659 To support: Development of a project led by the staff of Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) to create, manage, export, and publish high quality bibliographical data across the digital humanities research domain. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867658 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/BDfVISosX2s/ The NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program has made 28 new awards. Here's an excerpt from the press release: American University — Washington, DC The Map of Jazz Musicians: an online interactive tool for navigating jazz history's interpersonal network Fernando Benadon, Project Director Outright: $49,777 To support: The development of an online tool to map connections and collaborations among American jazz musicians. Bank Street College of Education — New York, NY Civil Rights Movement Remix (CRM-Remix) Bernadette Anand, Project Director Outright: $25,000 To support: A series of workshops to plan the development of location-based smartphone applications about the African-American Civil Rights Movement based around sites in Harlem, NY. Boston University — Boston, MA Evolutionary Subject Tagging in the Humanities Jack Ammerman, Project Director Outright: $13,767 To support: A two-day meeting of humanities scholars, librarians, and computational analysis experts to consider how to improve existing cataloging software that attempts to better classify interdisciplinary humanities research. Brown University — Providence, RI A Journal-Driven Bibliography of Digital Humanities Julia Flanders, Project Director Outright: $49,659 To support: Development of a project led by the staff of Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) to create, manage, export, and publish high quality bibliographical data across the digital humanities research domain. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:01:59 +0100 867320 http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/aug/29/apple-ipod-apps-music-industry • Apple earned $410m from 5bn apps downloads in two years• IFPI reports 2009 CD sales fell by 12.7% losing £1bn in value The invitation to Apple's event on Wednesday at the Yerba Buena centre in San Francisco shows an acoustic guitar, with a soundhole in the shape of the Apple logo. Seasoned watchers of the company know that this is the time of year when the iPod gets a refresh, yet there's a shadow over the digital music player that turned Apple from an also-ran computer company into a force in the technology world.The latest sales figures for the quarter to June showed 9m sold – the lowest quarterly number since 2006. In short, the iPod, launched in October 2001, looks to be in terminal decline. While Apple is unworried – sales of its iPhone and iPad are booming – the drooping figures for the digital music player market are a concern for another sector: the music companies.The music industry had looked to the iPod to drive people to buy music in download form, whethe r from Apple's iTunes music store, eMusic, Napster or from newer competitors such as Amazon. The problem for them is that digital music sales are only growing as fast as those of Apple's devices – and as the stand-alone digital music player starts to die off, people may lose interest in buying songs from digital stores."At a time where we're asking if digital is a replacement for the CD, as the CD was for vinyl, we should be starting to see a hockey-stick growth in download sales," said Mark Mulligan, an analyst at Forrester Research who specialises in music and digital media. "Instead, we're seeing a curve resembling that of a niche technology."At the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) , which represents the worldwide music industry, a spokesman agrees that the growth of digital sales has slowed. Figures for 2009 released earlier this year show that while CD sales fell by 12.7%, losing $1. ... Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:06:44 +0100 867265 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/smwm/~3/pljNbzQ5CW0/digicmb The SEMANTIC web : A n e w f o r m o f Web c ontent t h a t i s m ea n i n g f u l to c omp u ter s w i l l u n l ea s h a r e v o l u t i o n o f n e w p o s s i b i l i t i e s 24 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SPECIAL ONLINE ISSUE APRIL 2002 COPYRIGHT 2002 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, INC. The entertainment system was belting out the Beatles’ “We Can Work It Out” when the phone rang. When Pete answered, his phone turned the sound down by sending a message to all the other local devices that had a volume control. His sister, Lucy, was on the line from the doctor’s office: “Mom needs to see a specialist and then has to have a series of physical therapy sessions. Biweekly or something. I’m going to have my agent set up the appointments.” Pete immediately agreed to share the chauffeuring. At the doctor’s office, Lucy instructed her Semantic Web agent through her handheld Web browser. The agent promptly retrieved information about Mom’s prescribed treatment from the doctor’s agent, looked up several lists of providers, and checked for the (Source: DigiCMB) Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:40:02 +0100 867129 http://ramblinglibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/08/ascap-copyleft-fund-raiser-campaign-of.html If you've not been following the Creative Commons scene, you might not have heard of the fund-raising campaign by the American Society for Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), started in June 2010.The ASCAP fund-raiser for a legislative campaignFirst, you ought to read their letter for yourself.Their fund-raiser is for a "legislative campaign" to "urge the members of (the U.S.) Congress to support [their] rights". I've read the letter several times. I'm still not sure what rights ASCAP is campaigning for. Or is it for a law against the lawful sharing of works -- even if initiated by the creator?What's really controversial was ASCAP's claims that 'Creative Commons promote "Copyleft" in order to undermine "Copyright"'. Wired.com was probably the first to break the news (25 Jun), and the article sums up the fallacies in ASCAP's position:The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is urging the membership to donate money to battle the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge and even Creative Commons.ASCAP’s attack on EFF and Public Knowledge are farfetched. Those groups do not suggest music should be free, although they push for the liberalization of copyright law.But the attack on Creative Commons is more laughable than ASCAP’s stance against EFF and Public Knowledge.While lobby groups EFF and Public Knowledge advocate for liberal copyright laws, Creative Commons actually creates licenses to protect content creators.LINKDid ASCAP bother to find out what Creative Commons (CC) really is about?CC is built upon the foundation of Copyright. CC is NOT an alternative to Copyright; CC works along side it. The idea of Creative Commons (CC) is not hard to understand. So I was puzzled as to why an organisation like ASCAP would choose to espouse wrong ideas. ... Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867617 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/9pN0zhNriuk/carl-e-lert-389.html CARL E-Lert # 389, August 20 2010 from Canadian Association of Research Libraries. Some of this week's items: Long-form census supporters flock to committee; The University of Alberta School of Library and Information Studies welcomes Mr. Ernie Ingles as Director; Scholars Test Web Alternative to Peer Review; Looming copyright crackdown could stifle Internet users, researchers, academics say; Oracle's Android lawsuit: A Pandora's box of serious evils (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:55:04 +0100 866602 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/08/27/daily-tweets-2010-08-27/ Czech Copyright Bill Undercuts Copyleft, Artists http://icio.us/ocdsgm # Japan’s National Diet Library Collaborating with Library of Congress on Digitization of Prewar Japanese Resources http://icio.us/v1xped # More on Mendeley and Repositories http://icio.us/vrqihp # Provider-Neutral Ebook Records, Help! http://icio.us/ejoe5v # Dear JSTOR: What Went Wrong? http://icio.us/zs0ftt # New: National Library of Poland Puts 20 Digital Collections Online http://icio.us/4v0ytx # Elsevier to Launch Soon a New Science Platform http://icio.us/1pynol # Southern African Music Collection Society Fighting Attempt to Put Public Domain Works Under Copyright http://icio.us/cfhjfa # Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Accord Likely to be Signed in September http://icio.us/0q12el # American Council of Learned Societies' Humanities E-Book Goes Live with Koha http://icio.us/20ul52 # What Everybody Knows http://icio.us/51x4e0 # Learned Society Members and Open Access http://icio.us/bmvhtn # (Source: DigitalKoans) Sat, 28 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867659 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/Ntn4B-4k9Xs/ Czech Copyright Bill Undercuts Copyleft, Artists http://icio.us/ocdsgm # Japan’s National Diet Library Collaborating with Library of Congress on Digitization of Prewar Japanese Resources http://icio.us/v1xped # More on Mendeley and Repositories http://icio.us/vrqihp # Provider-Neutral Ebook Records, Help! http://icio.us/ejoe5v # Dear JSTOR: What Went Wrong? http://icio.us/zs0ftt # New: National Library of Poland Puts 20 Digital Collections Online http://icio.us/4v0ytx # Elsevier to Launch Soon a New Science Platform http://icio.us/1pynol # Southern African Music Collection Society Fighting Attempt to Put Public Domain Works Under Copyright http://icio.us/cfhjfa # Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Accord Likely to be Signed in September http://icio.us/0q12el # American Council of Learned Societies' Humanities E-Book Goes Live with Koha http://icio.us/20ul52 # What Everybody Knows http://icio.us/51x4e0 # Learned Society Members and Open Access http://icio.us/bmvhtn # (Source: DigitalKoans) Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:00:00 +0100 867322 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/aug/28/penguin-great-ideas-simon-winder A publishing phenomenon – with Hazlitt and Ruskin selling tens of thousands – but also a phallocentric disgrace? Simon Winder talks about the end of Great Ideas - and invites readers to submit their suggestions of the egregious absencesGlazed, shaky, politically and philosophically confused, I have just finished editing the 100th and last Penguin Great Ideas title. Why we should stop the series at this specific, wholly arbitrary number is the sort of issue that would have delighted some of the more annoying authors in the series but, setting that aside, we have now published five sets of 20 and it is time to stop and do something different. Nobody is saying that these are the 100 Great Ideas – just a 100, with plenty of shameful omissions, insulting inclusions and unthinking biases trailing in a vast cloud behind them.Like all successful publishing concepts, Great Ideas was a straight steal from another publisher. I was standing on a haggard, rural Umbrian station platform in 2003 and was alarmed to see that the kiosk selling lollies, puzzle magazines and plastic guns also had a little rack of works by Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, which seemed a bit visionary by British standards. These were titles in Adelphi's famous and long-running Piccola Biblioteca series and I immediately thought that Penguin could do something similar. Again, as with all successful publishing concepts, my own ignorance and failure to focus properly accidentally transformed the Piccola Biblioteca. On the basis of the little kiosk rack (perhaps put there in a spirit of the most acrid satire by the kiosk's owner), I thought that the Adelphi series was entirely filled with short works of philosophy and politics – it was only later I found out that it also included many distinguished novels, and indeed that some of the books were not even all that piccolo. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:05:38 +0100 866290 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TravelinLibrarian/~3/oYyHbr-j1ZY/ On one of the flights I took last weekend GoGo in-flight WiFi was available. I didn’t pay for it as I’d already promised myself that I wouldn’t check my e-mail on vacation, but I did want to see if it worked on my Droid. I was able to connect but since I wasn’t a paying customer all I could do was read about the service. Here’s a few of the items from the Terms of Service that I found interesting: (emphasis added) 6.1 Acceptable Use Policy. You hereby agree to comply with Aircell’s acceptable use policy (“Acceptable Use Policy”), as described below. You will not use the Service to (or assist another person to): Harm or threaten harm to persons or property; Harass other persons; Violate any applicable law, including those related to export control, spam, gambling, obscenity, or computer access; Engage in any fraud or misrepresentation; Provide instructional information about illegal activities; Interfere with, disrupt, or create undue burden on the Service (or the networks or computers that provide same); Infringe or violate another person’s rights, including privacy and intellectual property rights; Allow another person who has not paid for the Service to access or use the Service on his computer or device through your computer or device; Access or display offensive content on your computer or device, in view of another person; Knowingly distribute any virus or other malware; Access any network or computer (including those providing the Service) in excess of the permission expressly granted to you; Monitor (through, for example, sniffers) any network traffic without express authorization of the owner of the network and the parties’ to the communications; Attempt to decrypt any encrypted or scrambled communications; Introduce software or automated agents into the Service; or Attempt to impersonate any other person, including any Aircell employees. (Source: Travelin' Librarian) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:54:06 +0100 867764 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/08/26/the-pre-history-of-fair-use/ Matthew Sag has self-archived "The Pre-History of Fair Use" in SSRN. Here's an excerpt: This article reconsiders the history of copyright’s pivotal fair use doctrine. The history of fair use does not in fact begin with early American cases such as Folsom v. Marsh in 1841, as most accounts assume—the complete history of the fair use doctrine begins with over a century of copyright litigation in the English courts. Reviewing this "pre-history" of the American fair use doctrine leads to three significant conclusions. The first is that copyright and fair use evolved together. Virtually from its inception, statutory copyright went well beyond merely mechanical acts of reproduction and was defined by the concept of fair abridgment. The second insight gained by extending our historical view is that there is in fact substantial continuity between fair abridgment in the pre-modern era and fair use in the United States today. These findings have substantial implications for copyright law today, the principal one being that fair use is central to the formulation of copyright, and not a mere exception. The third conclusion relates to the contribution of Folsom v. Marsh itself. The pre-modern cases illustrate a half-formed notion of the derivative right: unauthorized derivatives could be enjoined to defend the market of the original work, but they did not constitute a separate market unto themselves. Folsom departs from the earlier English cases in that it recognizes derivatives as inherently valuable, not just a thing to be enjoined to defend the original work against substitution. . . . It seems likely that as more and more derivatives were enjoined defensively, courts and copyright owners began to see these derivatives as part of the author’s inherent rights in relation to his creation. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867660 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/08/event-archiving-2011.html Received via email...IS&T is pleased to announce the Archiving 2011 Call for Papers.  The deadline for submitting presentation abstracts for Archiving 2011 to be held May 16-19, 2011 in Salt Lake City, Utah, is October 17, 2010.  A PDF of the Call for Papers can be found at www.imaging.org/ist/conferences/archiving.The IS&T Archiving Conference brings together a unique community of imaging novices and experts from libraries, archives, records management, and information technology institutions to discuss and explore the expanding field of digital archiving and preservation. Attendees from around the world represent industry, academia, governments, and cultural heritage institutions. The conference presents the latest research results on archiving, provides a forum to explore new strategies and policies, and reports on successful projects that can serve as benchmarks in the field. Archiving 2011 is a blend of invited focal papers, keynote talks, and refereed oral and interactive display presentations. Prospective authors are invited to submit oral and interactive presentations by the October 17th deadline. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866457 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/7QejuYeFXUg/event-archiving-2011.html Received via email...IS&T is pleased to announce the Archiving 2011 Call for Papers.  The deadline for submitting presentation abstracts for Archiving 2011 to be held May 16-19, 2011 in Salt Lake City, Utah, is October 17, 2010.  A PDF of the Call for Papers can be found at www.imaging.org/ist/conferences/archiving.The IS&T Archiving Conference brings together a unique community of imaging novices and experts from libraries, archives, records management, and information technology institutions to discuss and explore the expanding field of digital archiving and preservation. Attendees from around the world represent industry, academia, governments, and cultural heritage institutions. The conference presents the latest research results on archiving, provides a forum to explore new strategies and policies, and reports on successful projects that can serve as benchmarks in the field. Archiving 2011 is a blend of invited focal papers, keynote talks, and refereed oral and interactive display presentations. Prospective authors are invited to submit oral and interactive presentations by the October 17th deadline. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866369 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/08/26/the-pre-history-of-fair-use/ Matthew Sag has self-archived "The Pre-History of Fair Use" in SSRN. Here's an excerpt: This article reconsiders the history of copyright’s pivotal fair use doctrine. The history of fair use does not in fact begin with early American cases such as Folsom v. Marsh in 1841, as most accounts assume—the complete history of the fair use doctrine begins with over a century of copyright litigation in the English courts. Reviewing this "pre-history" of the American fair use doctrine leads to three significant conclusions. The first is that copyright and fair use evolved together. Virtually from its inception, statutory copyright went well beyond merely mechanical acts of reproduction and was defined by the concept of fair abridgment. The second insight gained by extending our historical view is that there is in fact substantial continuity between fair abridgment in the pre-modern era and fair use in the United States today. These findings have substantial implications for copyright law today, the principal one being that fair use is central to the formulation of copyright, and not a mere exception. The third conclusion relates to the contribution of Folsom v. Marsh itself. The pre-modern cases illustrate a half-formed notion of the derivative right: unauthorized derivatives could be enjoined to defend the market of the original work, but they did not constitute a separate market unto themselves. Folsom departs from the earlier English cases in that it recognizes derivatives as inherently valuable, not just a thing to be enjoined to defend the original work against substitution. . . . It seems likely that as more and more derivatives were enjoined defensively, courts and copyright owners began to see these derivatives as part of the author’s inherent rights in relation to his creation. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:03:53 +0100 866044 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/ND1kdselub0/ Matthew Sag has self-archived "The Pre-History of Fair Use" in SSRN. Here's an excerpt: This article reconsiders the history of copyright’s pivotal fair use doctrine. The history of fair use does not in fact begin with early American cases such as Folsom v. Marsh in 1841, as most accounts assume—the complete history of the fair use doctrine begins with over a century of copyright litigation in the English courts. Reviewing this "pre-history" of the American fair use doctrine leads to three significant conclusions. The first is that copyright and fair use evolved together. Virtually from its inception, statutory copyright went well beyond merely mechanical acts of reproduction and was defined by the concept of fair abridgment. The second insight gained by extending our historical view is that there is in fact substantial continuity between fair abridgment in the pre-modern era and fair use in the United States today. These findings have substantial implications for copyright law today, the principal one being that fair use is central to the formulation of copyright, and not a mere exception. The third conclusion relates to the contribution of Folsom v. Marsh itself. The pre-modern cases illustrate a half-formed notion of the derivative right: unauthorized derivatives could be enjoined to defend the market of the original work, but they did not constitute a separate market unto themselves. Folsom departs from the earlier English cases in that it recognizes derivatives as inherently valuable, not just a thing to be enjoined to defend the original work against substitution. . . . It seems likely that as more and more derivatives were enjoined defensively, courts and copyright owners began to see these derivatives as part of the author’s inherent rights in relation to his creation. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:03:21 +0100 867325 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/26/japans-national-diet-library-collaborating-with-library-of-congress-on-digitization-of-prewar-japanese-resources/ From the National Diet Library Announcement: The National Diet Library will carry out digitization of prewar Japanese resources owned by the Library of Congress (LC), in collaboration with the LC. The digitization will start in FY2010 and will take several years to complete. Digitized images will be provided within each library and those whose copyright is cleared or expired will be on the Internet. Source: National Diet Library (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:14:09 +0100 865860 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/26/highlights-only-just-released-the-survey-of-academic-libraries-2010-11-edition/ Primary Research Group has published The Survey of Academic Libraries, 2010-11 Edition, (157440-153-X). The report presents more than 245 pages of data and commentary on a broad range of academic library issues including: spending on books, ebooks, journals, databases and other content vehicles; hiring plans and trends in salaries and benefits; subject specific and overall academic library investment plans in content and trends in the capital budget; data on the use of laptops in the library, and the usefulness of various internet tools, among other issues. Just a few of the study’s many findings are that: + For more than 56% of the libraries in the sample, salaries and benefits in real terms declined in the past year. + The libraries in the sample reduced spending on content/materials by a mean of 1.75% in the 2009-10 academic year; the median figure was 0. + Libraries in the sample spent a mean of $5,801 on books and other intellectual property through Amazon online in the 2009-10 academic year. + 12.73% of the libraries sampled said that they had received support within the last year from Federal agencies. + An enormous gap is opening up between the public and private colleges over capital spending. 55.56% of the public colleges say that their capital budgets will decrease over the next three years while only 5.56% of private colleges say the same. + About a quarter of the libraries sampled have increased investment in information resources in business, finance and economics while about half that percentage has decreased such investment. Most have maintained it constant. More than 37% of private colleges have increased investment in this area while only 6.25% have decreased it. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:35:16 +0100 865868 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss/~5/SAnnET1MNaU/AJIC10-Gray.pdf Next Weblog update on 9/29/10. The African Journal of Information and Communication, no. 10 (2009/2010): Includes "Access to Africa's Knowledge: Publishing Development Research and Measuring Value," "Copyright and Education in Africa: Lessons on African Copyright and Access to Knowledge," "Open Access and Open Knowledge Production Processes: Lessons from CODESRIA," "Research Productivity-Visibility-Accessibility and Scholarly Communication in Southern African Universities," and other articles. Ariadne, no. 64 (2010): Includes: "Data Services for the Sciences: A Needs Assessment," "Repository Software Comparison: Building Digital Library Infrastructure at LSE," "Retooling Libraries for the Data Challenge," and other articles. Aslib Proceedings 62, no. 4/5 (2010): Includes "Excavating Grey Literature: A Case Study on the Rich Indexing of Archaeological Documents via Natural Language-Processing Techniques and Knowledge-Based Resources" and other articles. Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Open Access Journals Bibliography, version 1. Houston: Digital Scholarship, 2010. International Journal of Digital Curation 5, no. 1 (2010): Includes "Bit Preservation: A Solved Problem?," "Chronopolis Digital Preservation Network," "Towards Interoperable Preservation Repositories: TIPR," "Towards Smart Storage for Repository Preservation Services," "The Use of Quality Management Standards in Trustworthy Digital Archives," and other articles. Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, no. 62 (2010): Includes "Publishing Practices of NIH-Funded Faculty at MIT" and other articles. Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries 7, no. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:23:48 +0100 866426 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/4i3ebi_Y-JQ/ Video and computer games share a bit of an odd similarity to books and e-books. Like books, they can be an example of intellectual property encapsulated in an object, which can be bought and sold new or used—but like e-books, they can also be delivered purely digitally, and equipped with restrictive DRM. And as with both, there’s some controversy surrounding the idea of used sales. While many print book publishers look at the sale of used books and gnash their teeth, they are largely powerless to do anything about them. The First Sale Doctrine states that it’s perfectly legal for people to resell the media they buy, after all. Some publishers might make noises about forcing used book dealers to pay royalties on titles they resell, but it would take an act of Congress to mandate something like that, and it doesn’t look like it’s in the cards. On the other hand, just as e-book publishers are able to connive their way around the Fair Use doctrine by putting DRM on their titles and making it illegal to break the DRM, video and computer game developers actually can make buying used titles less attractive—at least, titles that have an on-line play component, interoperability with other games, or some other function that the publishers can block. All they have to do is include a single-use code with each new version of a game that won’t work for someone who buys it used, and in one fell swoop they remove a lot of the value inherent in the price savings on the used game. (Of course, this also blocks pirated versions of the game, but piracy would have happened anyway—it’s the used resale market that they’re squarely aiming at.) Used Computer Games: Cheat or Helper? The controversy over used video games has sprung up anew as game developer THQ’s creative director for wrestling games said in an interview that used games “cheat” developers (by way of explaining why THQ’s latest wrestling game includes such a single-use code). ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:15:00 +0100 865830 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/08/26/iphone-spy-phone/ Legal Watch blog recently reported that Apple has applied for a patent on technology that, among other things, would allow Apple to identify and punish users who “jailbreak” or unlock their iPhones or who otherwise tamper with their devices against Apple policy. The patent application is titled, Systems and methods for identifying unauthorized users of an electronic device, and would allow Apple to remotely, and without detection, record a user’s face, voice, a unique “heartbeat signature”, a photo of the location where the phone is being used, and monitor essentially all usage of the device. These biometric measures could also be used to identify unauthorized users of an electronic device by comparing the identity of the current user to the identity of the owner of the electronic device. When an unauthorized user is detected, various safety measures could be taken such as shutting down functions of the electronic device in question. Many civil liberties advocates, such as Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which defends civil rights and freedoms in the digital world, believe that this patented system would enable Apple to secretly collect, store and potentially use sensitive biometric information about a user—simply put, to spy on their customers. According to the EFF: This is dangerous in two ways: First, it is far more than what is needed just to protect you against a lost or stolen phone. It’s extremely privacy-invasive and it puts you at great risk if Apple’s data on you are compromised. But it’s not only the biometric data that are a concern. Second, Apple’s technology includes various types of usage monitoring—also very privacy-invasive. This patented process could be used to retaliate against you if you jailbreak or tinker with your device in ways that Apple views as “unauthorized” even if it is perfectly legal under copyright law. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:30:53 +0100 867050 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/25/representatives-of-nature-publishing-group-and-u-of-california-have-positive-meeting-agree-to-work-together-and-make-public-statement/ NPG and the U. of California met to discuss various issues on August 17, 2010. Today, they released the following statement (via The Great Beyond (A Nature Weblog) that is positive in tone (as was the meeting) but does not announce anything specific. Full Text of Statement 25 August 2010 Representatives from the University of California and Nature Publishing Group met on August 17, 2010 to discuss our organizations’ current licensing challenges and the larger issues of scholarly communication sustainability. The discussion was positive, with a full exchange of views and mutual recognition of the value that each of us contributes to the scholarly communication enterprise. Our two organizations have agreed to work together in the coming months to address our mutual short- and long-term challenges, including an exploration of potential new approaches and evolving publishing models. We look forward to a successful planning and experimentation process that results in mutual agreement that serves all stakeholder groups-NPG, the UC libraries, and the scholar community, thus avoiding the need for the boycott that had been discussed at an earlier stage. We are aware that many in the library, publishing, and academic communities are interested in the outcome of these discussions, and we will provide further updates on our progress as appropriate. For the University of California: Laine Farley Executive Director California Digital Library University of California, Office of the President Ivy Anderson Director of Collections California Digital Library University of California, Office of the President Brian E. C. Schottlaender The Audrey Geisel University Librarian University of California – San Diego Past Convener, University Librarians Council Karen Butter University Librarian and Assistant Vice Chancellor University of California – San Francisco Richard A. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:01:55 +0100 864846 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/25/national-archives-receives-original-nuremberg-laws-from-huntington-library/ From the NARA Announcement: In a transfer ceremony at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens today, Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero accepted on behalf of the U.S. government the original Nuremberg Laws presented by Steven S. Koblik, Huntington president. Gen. George S. Patton Jr. deposited the documents at the Library for safekeeping at the end of World War II. He died in December of 1945 in an automobile crash before he could discuss their final disposition. In presenting the Laws to Mr. Ferriero, Dr. Koblik said, “These documents should have been part of the National Archives, had Gen. Patton followed instructions from his commander-in-chief in Europe, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Eisenhower directed that all documents related to the persecution of the Jews should be sent to a common collection point in Germany that was preparing for the Nuremberg War Crime Trials. These materials eventually were deposited at the National Archives. The Huntington felt strongly that it wanted the Nuremberg Laws to be placed with the other original documentation of war crimes against Jews during World War II. We are pleased that we are able to present these documents to the Archivist of the United States today so that the collection is now complete.” “I am pleased and honored to accept these originals of the Nuremberg Laws on behalf of the National Archives and Records Administration and the Government of the United States,” said Mr. Ferriero. “September 15, just a few weeks away, will mark the 75th anniversary of the signing of these laws by Adolf Hitler, which he used as the legal underpinning for the persecution of Jews in Germany, culminating in the Holocaust. We are very grateful that the Huntington Library is now providing these historically important documents to the National Archives, where they will join other original documents relating to horrors of the Third Reich,” he continued. ... Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:40:05 +0100 864852 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/08/24/special-issue-of-the-african-journal-of-information-and-communication-on-scholarly-communication-and-opening-access-to-knowledge/ The African Journal of Information and Communication has published a special issue on scholarly communication and opening access to knowledge. Here's a selection of articles: Access to Africa's Knowledge: Publishing Development Research and Measuring Value Research Productivity-Visibility-Accessibility and Scholarly Communication in Southern African Universities Copyright and Education in Africa: Lessons on African Copyright and Access to Knowledge 'Dazzling Technologies': Addressing the Digital Divide in the Southern African Universities Open Access and Open Knowledge Production Processes: Lessons from CODESRIA (Source: DigitalKoans) Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:03:45 +0100 866053 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/08/24/daily-tweets-2010-08-24/ Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars http://icio.us/yep5n4 # A Busy Summer for DSpace — GSoC & DSpace 1.7 Updates http://icio.us/zbb1mr # Wireless Net Neutrality so Bad, Verizon Already Agreed to It http://icio.us/pei4ir # RIAA: U.S. Copyright Law "Isn't Working" http://icio.us/12c3hr # Open to Change: How Open Access Can Work http://icio.us/2kduu2 # Pass the Hat: Voluntary Payment as a Complementary Model for Music Copyright http://icio.us/pmswpv # Literature Review: IncReASe Project http://icio.us/kook4i # Literature Review: EM-Loader Project http://icio.us/3ihzcy # Comparing Social Sharing of Bibliographic Information with Institutional Repositories http://icio.us/vjv1nu # For Scholars, Web Changes Sacred Rite of Peer Review http://icio.us/btqxtd # Free Data Services [British Library] http://icio.us/pqmqd2 # Common as Air http://icio.us/dst5ja # (Source: DigitalKoans) Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:00:39 +0100 866056 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/24/google-roundup-google-now-lets-one-domain-dominate-search-results-a-mobile-google-finance-google-buzz-bug-more/ + Official: Google Now Lets One Domain Dominate Search Results (via SEL) + Gmail and Google Labs Improves “Undo Send” (via Google Operating System) If you use web interface to Gmail this can be very useful. (-: + Mobile: Google Finance Now Available on Android and iPhone Apps (via Google Finance Blog) + Google’s new Android Market piracy prevention system circumvented (via The Next Web) + Mobile: Dive into the ocean with Google Earth for Android (via Google Mobile Blog) + Google Buzz bug spotlights tepid usage (via Webware) + Google Street View cars back too soon, says French watchdog (via IDG News Service/Computerworld) + Google Now Owns Earth (via Nextgov) + Google Makes Change to Orkut as Facebook Wins in India See Also: Orkut Lets You Communicate with Groups of Friends (via Google Operating System) (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:45:19 +0100 864859 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/S_FX6OzfJMs/de-olifantenhuid-van-kuik.html Gisteren bekeek ik de Twittertijdlijn van Tim Kuik, de directeur van Brein. Brein is namelijk weer volop in het nieuws deze zomer. The Pirate Bay daagt Brein, Brein daagt The Pirate Bay en Brein valt over een reclame van UPC. Dat soort berichten. Ik heb al te vaak geschreven wat  ik denk over Brein, copyright en piraterij, dat laat ik deze keer even buiten beschouwing. Waar het mij nu even over gaat is de kritiek die Kuik over zich heen krijgt, op het web. Die is buitenproportioneel. Wat dat betreft vind ik het wel stoer van de man, dat hij zich gewoon op Twitter waagt en de discussie niet schuwt. Deze kerel heeft een olifantenhuid.Een greep uit blogbijdragen: Wat het betekent als Kuik 'rechthebbenden' zegt. Tim Kuik heeft zelf een gaatje in zijn hoofd NIEUW! De Tim Kuik Remix Contest De fratsen van Tim Kuik Tim Kuik = psychotisch @ (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:48:00 +0100 864826 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/08/23/daily-tweets-82310/ Now Available: Fedora Repository 3.4 http://icio.us/qht4lr Creative Commons OpenOffice Plug-in Version 0.7.0 Released http://icio.us/xwdpzv Enter the "Liquid Journal" http://icio.us/pxz2wf Will Google's Net Neutrality Shift Complicate the Book Settlement? http://icio.us/bbhbj2 A Case of Bad Credit?: The United State and the Protection of Moral Rights in Intellectual Property Law http://icio.us/g1emas Teaching the End of Print — Using Books Poised on the Edge of Oblivion http://icio.us/iygqzq So Much for Transparency: Latest ACTA Draft Won't Be Released http://icio.us/fjvpvc Did Weak Copyright Laws Help Germany Outpace the British Empire? http://icio.us/wp3bgf (Source: DigitalKoans) Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:40:42 +0100 866057 http://www.lisnews.org/un039common039_take_copyright_law Piece on NPR about the book Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership. Excerpt: Some people believe that not only are current copyright laws too stringent, but that the assumptions the current laws are based on are artificial, illogical and outdated. Among them is Lewis Hyde, a professor of art and politics who has studied these issues for years. In his new book Common As Air, Hyde says he's suspicious of the concept of "intellectual property" to begin with, calling it "historically strange." Hyde backs it up with an impressive amount of research; he spends a significant amount of time reflecting on the Founding Fathers, who came up with America's initial copyright laws. Hyde is a contrarian, but he's not a scorched-earth opponent of all copyright laws. Full story here (Source: LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News) Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:43:50 +0100 865587 http://lisnews.org/un039common039_take_copyright_law Piece on NPR about the book Common as Air: Revolution, Art, and Ownership. Excerpt: Some people believe that not only are current copyright laws too stringent, but that the assumptions the current laws are based on are artificial, illogical and outdated. Among them is Lewis Hyde, a professor of art and politics who has studied these issues for years. In his new book Common As Air, Hyde says he's suspicious of the concept of "intellectual property" to begin with, calling it "historically strange." Hyde backs it up with an impressive amount of research; he spends a significant amount of time reflecting on the Founding Fathers, who came up with America's initial copyright laws. Hyde is a contrarian, but he's not a scorched-earth opponent of all copyright laws. Full story here (Source: LISNews.org) Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:43:50 +0100 865304 http://weblog.ib.hu-berlin.de/?p=8239 iConference 2011 An open conference sponsored by Information Schools of North America, Europe, and Asia. Seattle, Washington, USA February 8 – 11, 2011 http://www.ischools.org/iConference11/2011index/ ***SUBMISSION DEADLINE: August 30, 2010*** Greetings to everyone! We are now just two weeks from the August 30 submission deadline for iConference 2011. This is the date on which full papers will be due, as well as poster abstracts and alternative events proposals. The 2011 iConference will be our sixth annual gathering of researchers and professionals who share the goal of making a difference through the study of people, information, and technology. The event will showcase diversity in research interests and approaches, and demonstrate how the field creates leadership and impact on a global scale. The four days will include peer-reviewed papers, posters, and alternative events. Also being organized is a Doctoral Student Colloquium (the application deadline is November 1) and a Junior Faculty & Postdoc Colloquium. The event will be held at Seattle’s Renaissance Hotel, locally hosted by the University of Washington Information School. Papers and poster abstracts will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Authors and organizers can now submit full papers, poster abstracts, and alternative events proposals at http://www.ischools.org/iConference11/participation/. The link for author registration and the submission process appears under the “Instructions for Authors” header. All submitting authors must also provide basic information and agree to copyright parameters as a condition of acceptance and publication. Preconference workshop ideas can be emailed directly to Program Co-Chair Karen Fisher: fisher@uw.edu. The iConference is sponsored by the iCaucus, a growing association of over 25 Schools, Faculties, and Colleges in North America, Europe and Asia that focus on Information. ... Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:49:20 +0100 865436 http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2010/08/wanted-dont-be-evil-online-music-store.html Update August 23: http://www.emusic.com/ has been suggested. Interesting - DRM-free music, but on the other hand an ongoing monthly financial commitment, which I don't like, with emusic reserving the right to change the terms and conditions at any time. Not sure about this, but definitely much better than itunes.Much as I like the idea of the convenience of buying music online (whether for download or CDs), I can't bring myself to sign the itunes agreement. This agreement says that I can only use what I buy in Canada, and apple reserves the right to use spy technology to enforce this. Nor am I keen on purchasing through Amazon, since I don't see an easy way to filter out music produced by companies that employ evil sue-their-customers-even-kids techniques and/or who advocate for evil copyright protection. Perhaps an Amazon "no-RIAA members" button would suffice?Given the popularity of the international Pirate Parties, maybe it's not just me?On the other hand, maybe I should just create my own music. (Source: The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics) Mon, 23 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866654 http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2010/08/ifla-2010-world-report-on-access-of.html The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) has released its World Report 2010:"The World Report series is a biennial report series that reports on the state of the world in terms of freedom of access to information, freedom of expresion and related issues (...) The 2010 Report has been designed as a customizable interactive electronic publication and can be accessed in different formats through the maps below: The country-oriented map interface on the left allows users to produce a full or partial country report or comparative country reports, depending on choices on the following page. The question-oriented interface on the right allows users to get information on a single question for all countries that have participated in the 2010 Report."For each of the 122 countries in the report, the authors provide information on:Numbers and facts about national libraries, public, university, school and government funded research librariesLibraries and the Internet (availability of local content, use of filtering and blocking software, Open access)Legal issues (copyright laws, freedom of information, privacy, intellectual freedom protections)Social issues (HIV/Aids awareness, women’s literacy and freedom of access to information, the disabled and freedom of access to information, senior citizens and freedom of access to information, libraries and the provision of universal primary education, libraries and environmental sustainability)Ethics and IFLA initiatives (Source: Library Boy) Mon, 23 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 864924 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/_sLbvh5QIi0/article-digital-copycats-personal.html Quoting the article:Referred to in Japan's Internet community as "jisui," (literally "cooking one's own meals"), the process involves feeding pages of a book through a scanner one by one to turn a work into digital form. Boosting the popularity of personal digitization is the emergence of portable devices such as Apple's iPad.If this is the trend in Japan with 20% of surveyed iPad using doing it, I expect it will become a trend elsewhere.And what about copyright?  The article notes that this is violation of copyright in Japan, but that the law is out of step with practice.  Thanks to Michael Porter (LibraryMan) for pointing me toward this article.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865694 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/08/article-digital-copycats-personal.html Quoting the article:Referred to in Japan's Internet community as "jisui," (literally "cooking one's own meals"), the process involves feeding pages of a book through a scanner one by one to turn a work into digital form. Boosting the popularity of personal digitization is the emergence of portable devices such as Apple's iPad.If this is the trend in Japan with 20% of surveyed iPad using doing it, I expect it will become a trend elsewhere.And what about copyright?  The article notes that this is violation of copyright in Japan, but that the law is out of step with practice.  Thanks to Michael Porter (LibraryMan) for pointing me toward this article.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 864954 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/08/20/the-friday-fillip-211/ It is now one day short of a month till International Talk Like a Pirate Day, and in the Slaw tradition of preparing you well for upcoming challenges, today’s fillip takes us back to the days of piracy some two hundred years ago and more. Thanks to a recent online release of old books of piracy trials in the nineteenth century by the Law Library of Congress, we can brush up on what it meant to be a pirate back then. And it’s not a pretty picture. Take, for example, Joseph Baker, a Canadian pirate hanged in Philadelphia in 1800. Evidently, he was part of a failed mutiny aboard the schooner Eliza on her voyage from Philadelphia to St. Thomas, during which the captain, William Wheland, was killed. His published “confession,” though difficult to read in the image PDF, is worth dipping into. One evening I went to a tavern in company with Lacroase; and, in conversation, he asked me where my lodgings were, and the next day he (in company with Beruse, now under the same sentence also) called upon me; they told me I was a fool to stay in such a country as this was, when if I would go the West-Indies and work at my trade, I could get five dollars per day. . . . There were seven Italians and Frenchmen on board this vessel, who proposed to me to enter into a secret conspiracy for suprizing the captain and crew on her voyage to the West-Indies, and make ourselves masters of the ship and cargo; But I would not agree to their proposal, and, therefore, quitted the ship . . . The 4th September following, being at sea, Beruse asked me if I would assist him in taking the vessel. I told him I would not. . . . but he continually harrassed me for three days to consent to his wicked proposal; Lacrose then told him that if he would take the vessel, he (Lacrose) would take her into port. He then asked me to take some poison out of the medicine-chest, and put some in the soup, for the purpose of destroying the captain . . . ... Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:18:12 +0100 867075 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/08/20/papers-from-the-2010-cba-niagara-conference/ UPDATE: I’ve been informed that the papers are reserved for those who attended only. Please, then, treat this simply as a list of papers that were in fact given. Presumably, a request to the author or the the CBA might result in your obtaining a copy with permission. The CBA’s 2010 Canadian Legal Conference in Niagara Program Papers are available via the conference website. Below the fold is a linked list of all the nearly 40 papers currently available (more may be added to the CBA site), arranged simply in the order in which they appear on the program. All are PDF files. La famille en évolution et le droit by Suzanne Pringle La contribution de l’intelligence émotionnelle à la communauté juridique by Raymond David Changements climatiques et commerce international by Bernard Colas The International Carbon Market: Post-2012 International Negotiations by Florence Dagicour Reducing Risk Through Effective Practice Management by George Hendy, Patrick Cassidy, and David Paul GLBT Families and Assisted Reproductive Technologies by Joanna Radbord Trade-marks, and the Federal Court: A primer and tips for young lawyers seeking to understand trade-marks and develop a Federal Courts practice by Steven J.R. Seiferling Investment Powers:  A Comparison of Jurisdictions for Charitable Organizations by C. Yvonne Chenier Investment Powers of Charities and Not-for-profit Organizations in Canada appendix to Chenier paper Provincial Borders Are Not Imaginary Lines:  Operating Inter-Provincially in Canada by Adam Aptowitzer A Comparison of Corporate Jurisdictions for Charitable Organizations by Karen J. Cooper and Jane Burke-Robertson The Canada Not-For-Profit Corporations Act - A New Corporate Framework for Federal Not-For-Profits by Melanie A. McDonald Technology in Litigation: Friend or Foe by Simon V. Potter Late-in-Life Marriages: Love, Heartbreak, and Family Law Matters by Karon C. ... Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:52:46 +0100 867077 http://dallnet.blogspot.com/2010/08/copyright-photos.html OREGON LEGAL RESEARCHby Laura OrrAugust 19, 2010"Can Someone Use My Picture Without My Permission?"Good post on the issues of copyright and photography. (Source: Lex Scripta) Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865384 http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2010/08/ifla-world-report.html IFLA announced the launch of its new World Report. "For the first time, the World Report is being made available online in a fully searchable database, complete with graphical map interface. By clicking on a country's marker, you can either select "View individual report" if you would like to view a single country's report or "Add to report list" in order to view multiple countries in one report. The report includes questions on: Internet access in libraries; Copyright; Library initiatives for providing information to different categories of citizens (such as senior citizens, women, the disabled and visually impaired); The role of libraries in universal primary education and environmental sustainability; And much more!" http://ifla-world-report.org/ (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 864973 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6309 BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY Upcoming events and digital media // August 18, 2010 [1] [8/26-27] VRM + CRM 2010 Workshop (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6295) [2] [SAVE THE DATE 9/7] Berkman Center Open House (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/09/openhouse) [3] [9/25] "Media Law in the Digital Age: The Rules Have Changed, Have You?" Conference in Atlanta, GA (http://csjconferences.org/medialaw/) VRM + CRM 2010 WORKSHOP ================================================================================== 8/26-27 Pound Hall, Harvard Law School Free and Open to the Public; Registration is required: http://vrmcrm2010.eventbrite.com/ The first VRM+CRM workshop will take place on 26-27 August, at Harvard Law School. The purpose is to get VRM and CRM developers and other interested parties (such as CRM customers) together to start building out the common ground between them. That common ground is potentially very huge. CRM is already a $15 billion business. What happens when customers start managing relationships too? Let’s start answering that. While the workshop sessions will be chosen by the participants (following opening briefings by VRM and CRM folks), here are a few of the topics and questions that are sure to come up – * Terms of service. How can we get past the legal hurdles and shackles that inconvenience both buyers and sellers when they get acquainted? * Privacy policies. How can we reduce the suspicions and frictions that these involve? * Personal data. What tools, methods and services are being developed for individuals to keep track of data they generate or is being kept by sellers and other parties? What means do we have for sharing or exchanging that data in secure and trustable ways? * Signaling. ... Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:04:08 +0100 865910 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/08/17/court-web-site-design-principles/ Back in January, I announced the formation of a working group under the auspices of the Canadian Centre for Court Technology (CCCT). The objective of this working group was to draft guidelines facilitating the modernization of Canadian court web sites. Since that time, we have made progress and expect to have finished a first draft of the Court Web Site guidelines before the upcoming Canadian Forum on Court Technology. One of the five parts of the guidelines is titled “Principles – Cutting Through Context and Issues: What Principles Should Guide the Design of Court Web Sites?” In this post I’d like to expose the principles we selected. Your comments and feedback are welcome: Principle #1: The Right Information for Specific Audiences Principle #2: Empowerment Principle #3: Timeliness Principle #4: Notification Principle #5: Content Organization & Search Principle #6: Security Principle #7: Bilinguism Principle #8: Accessibility Principle #9: Interactivity Principle #10: Viability Principle #11: Simplicity The first three principles are explained, below. The other principles will be explained in upcoming posts. Principle #1: The Right Information for Specific Audiences Users that come to a court web site generally fall under the following categories: Members of the Public Journalists Self-represented Litigants Practitioners: Lawyers, Paralegals, Stenographers, Translators, etc. Researchers: Law Professors, Law Librarians, Law Students Commercial Law Publishers Government (Public Servants) Staff (employees and judges of the court) Each audience has its own information needs and expectations. Being able to find the right information means that courts should make a effort, under the current guidelines, to specifically cater to each audience according to a “cost / benefit” analysis. This analysis is necessary, because it is impossible to meet the entire range of all information needs by all audiences. ... Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:18:13 +0100 867086 http://granite.medlib.iupui.edu/rlmlnews/?p=735 Upgrade URL for EndNote Find Full Text We recommend that EndNote users upgrade their URLs in EndNote preferences. Also, users should check all the EndNote Find Full Text options including PubMed LinkOut. In testing EndNote X3 and X4 we discovered a URL that receives more hits than the previous web address, and whether using PubMed or not, the PubMed LinkOut is an avenue to additional full text options. In EndNote X3 and X4, click Edit (on a Macintosh computer click EndNote X3), Preferences, and Find Full Text. In the Open URL Path, paste http://ulib.iupui.edu/findit/openurl and click Ok. Then, select one or more references, a Group, or your entire EndNote Library and have EndNote scan for full text. This includes IU School of Medicine Libraries’ 5000 online subscriptions. With one or more references highlighted, right click, and in the pop-up box click Find Full Text, and Find Full Text. Approve the copyright pop-up. Give the computer a full minute or several minutes, depending on the amount of references selected. Paperclip icons should appear for each EndNote record that got a PDF. For more information contact the IU School of Medicine Librarian, Carole Gall at 317 274-1411 cfgall@iupui.edu or EndNote Specialist Doug Bartlow at 317 274-5077 jbartlo@iupui.edu or Sue London 274-2281 slondon@iupui.edu . It should look like this in EndNote X3   (Source: IU Medical Library News) Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:12:36 +0100 866459 http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2010/08/canadian-library-association-statement.html Earlier this month, the Canadian Library Association (CLA) published its analysis of Bill C-32, An Act to Amend the Copyright Act.The document, entitled Protecting the Public Interest in the Digital World, has been forwarded to the federal Ministers of Industry and of Canadian Heritage:"CLA applauds the addition of education, parody and satire in the fair dealing section of the Act. However the Government’s insistence on reintroducing unnecessarily proscriptive protections for digital locks undermines this improvement along with other new and existing user rights to the extent that they are seriously undermined. Legislation which does not include the right to bypass digital locks for non-infringing purposes is fundamentally flawed.""CLA urges the government to address the copyright implications of the Internet and digital content with a balanced and thoughtful public policy-based approach that upholds and protects Canadian values and culture and user rights as reinforced by the Supreme Court of Canada. Technology and the content provision industries are rapidly evolving and legislative attempts to force existing business models on Canadians by placing constraints on their use of technology are both wrong and ultimately quixotic. The core principles in the WIPO Copyright treaties not already recognized in Canadian law do not require such a maximalist approach and can be incorporated without resorting to the type of barriers on the use of technology found in Bill C-32. ""The Bill does not go far enough to amend existing library, archive and museum exceptions and limitations made redundant by the fundamental principle of user fair dealing rights as clearly outlined in the unanimous Supreme Court of Canada judgment in CCH Canadian Ltd. v. Law Society of Upper Canada, 2004 SCC 13 ...; instead it introduces significant constraints on the ability of individuals and libraries to exercise their rights in the digital environment. ... Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 864932 http://kairosnews.org/major-intellectual-property-events-of-20 I want to try to think of as many possible "Top IP Developments of 2010" as possible while 2010 is still going on, so that I'll have a lot of topics to assign for the CCCC IP Annual. (Most people want to be assigned a topic.) There's Viacom v. YouTube...anything else you can think of right now? (Source: Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy) Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:25:11 +0100 865041 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/08/16/caut-and-cfs-objection-to-access-copyright-tariff/ This is a very interesting read. Kudos to CAUT and CFS for preparing such a well-informed response. The Objection can be found here. (Source: Slaw) Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:02:56 +0100 867089 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TechsourceBlog/~3/UkPjuy12SOo/interview-with-michael-edson.html Meeting Michael Edson and presenting on the same docket with him was one of the highlights of my time at the U Game U Learn Conference this past April in The Netherlands. Michael Edson is Director of Web and New Media Strategy for the Smithsonian Institution and was in Delft to talk about the Smithsonian Commons project that recently debuted as a prototype here: http://www.si.edu/commons/prototype/.  The day after the  UGUL conference, we turned a serendipitous meeting at the Delft train station into a late afternoon walk around the town and dinner filled with conversation about our work, views of organizations and the future of library/museum services. It was one of those perfect “on the road speaking” travel experiences I most enjoy. The commons project prototype is a multi-faceted, well-planned and researched virtual community that seeks to engage and inspire visitors. Explore the site for more - including videos of the various personas of visitors: museum visitor, teacher, millennial, and enthusiast. Howard Rheingold, someone I consider to be one of the best authorities of the power of virtual community and interaction, recently said: “The Smithsonian Commons is not just about using contemporary technology to further an enterprise that was founded with deep respect for American technological innovation, but about expanding the idea of the institution itself. Every click on a website, every video viewed, every exhibition shared via mobile device, every citizen scientist project, every teacher and student interaction with the Smithsonian via social media expands the idea of what the Smithsonian Institution is, who it reaches, what it can do.” (http://www.si.edu/commons/prototype/comments.html) Sadly, my travel schedule prevented me from hearing Michael at ALA Annual in Washington DC, but I gladly followed mention of his talk via Twitter and blog posts. ... Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:19:22 +0100 867915 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/08/16/5-sources-stock-video/ It’s not unusual to be looking for stock photographs to use in content such as presentations, brochures, advertisements or websites. But what about stock video when producing video content for presentations, websites or advertising? Here are five prominent sources for stock video I found: National Geographic Digital Motion – has a range of content including time lapse video, high definition (HD), health and science 3-D animation, and footage of China. I ran a search for “New York” and pulled up over 600 clips. Searching for “library” pulled up 25.  Search for video clips, and then submit a request for a pricing quote to license.  In the description of one of the demo videos they note: Due to the success of Michael Moore, Spike Lee, and Ken Burns, producers across the world are beginning to understand the benefits of producing new films from archival footage. Producing from archival footage saves companies hundreds of thousands of dollars while helping preserve memories and history. National Geographic Digital Motion (formerly National Geographic Film Library) is the archive and licensing agent for all National Geographic Television-produced film and video. We are a creative resource for high-quality, engaging video and production services. NFB Images – from the National Film Board of Canada, this site includes both stock photos and stock video in HD. Create an account to view, edit, share and download content. Research and copyright clearance services are available. It looks to have some great Canada-related content: NFB IMAGES features images from around the world: classic and contemporary material on war and conflict, industrialization, rural and urban lifestyles, celebrities, wildlife and a treasure trove of film footage on the Arctic. iStockphoto Video – iStockphoto is well known for stock photographs, but also has video. ... Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:30:18 +0100 867090 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/yVofuWTMaSM/je-bent-een-terrorist.html Het filmpje is al meer dan een jaar oud (en was al te zien op tientallen weblogs) maar pas nu het filmpje (met een Creative Commons-licentie!) bedreigd wordt op videosite Vimeo, trekt het mijn aandacht. Het is een confronterend filmpje over privacy in Duitsland, maar daar kun je net zo makkelijk Nederland voor invullen. Kijkt en huivert. @ (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:33:00 +0100 864845 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/mleggott/loomware/~3/_Ph2J7C_hTk/excess-copyright-access-copyrights-excessive-45-per-university-student-proposed-tariff---august-11-2010-deadline.html This is the first in more to come about the proposed $45 per university student tariff - a more than 1,300 % increase over the current basic charge. Access Copyright (“AC”),the proponent, is probably Canada’s fastest growing and least understood collectives. It started out as a reprography collective right after the 1988 reform package was proclaimed. Its initial cash flow came conveniently from a lucrative multimillion dollar contact with the Federal Government. It has since managed, with little effective resistance, to convince Canadian provincial governments, school boards, colleges and universities to pay well over $30 million a year into its coffers. The only actual Copyright Board challenge to date that has gone to fruition resulted in a big loss for the K-12 school boards and the provinces ultimately behind them under the umbrella of the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (“CMEC”). This loss was recently confirmed by the Federal Court of Appeal. More about this and whether this case will go to the Supreme Court of Canada below. via excesscopyright.blogspot.com A good piece on the summer effort by Access Copyright to levy a tax on learning. Maybe seeing this for what it is, a new tax, will cause the current government to say no? (Source: LoomWare) Sat, 14 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866338 http://michaelgolrick.blogspot.com/2010/08/mid-summer-links.html Joshua Neff wrote an interesting take on the "specialness" of librarians. He come to an interesting conclusion.Not really a library, but this place in Hungary sounds interesting. [It is tempting to chuck it all. Watching Anthony Bourdain last night in a re-run of when he sailed the Caribbean made me want to chuck it all and open a rum shop with a little library on some tropical beach...]Steve Lawson posted on his blog a rant/tirade/thought-piece which he received anonymously from a reported Assistant University Librarian which argues that libraries are dying. It is worth a look.I had to post this one activities in NOLA from a new-ish blog. This post is about an early July event which mocks a much older Spanish event.The Wall Street Journal has done a series on privacy on the web here is the first one on the business of spying.The Atlantic has a long, thoughtful piece about Closing the digital frontier which predicts the end of the browser.The Scout Report (from the University of Wisconsin published resources on homelessness resources.Eric Hellman starts his ever thoughtful post on copyright from with this great quote: "Here's the most important thing I've learned about intellectual property law: the lawyers who say "yes" when you ask if you can do something are much, much more expensive than the lawyers who say "no".""Want to Innovate? Stop Working So Hard" is the title of a thoughtful post by Bobbie Newman on her librarianbyday blog.A good article on basic rules on making charts (Source: Thoughts from a Library Administrator) Sat, 14 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866276 http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2010/08/ifla-report-researching-information.html Kerry Smith was just talking at the IFLA conference about about Researching the Information Commons (RIC). There is a section on defining the IC on the website, including"A commons, simply understood, is a resource, or a facility, "that is shared by a community of producers or consumers" (Oakerson, 1992 as quoted in Kranich 2004). The resources within a commons may be either "public goods" or "common pool resources." Some examples of public goods are streets, parks, beaches, common transit routes, stores of knowledge, and national defense." and"An imaginary "place" where works in the public domain and works affirmatively made under conditions less restrictive than full copyright "reside" (Campbell, 2005)" (see http://infocommons.curtin.edu.au/). Kerry showed pictures of her local beach and bush, as examples of physical commons she was free to roam.This is therefore something a bit different from the use of the phrase to apply to library/services (as in the "Information Commons" at my university, which you can't get into unless you have a university card). This is an important topic to think about and debate (and take action on) and its worth having a look at the website to see the issues being researched, and you can join in if you are a researcher passionate about this area.Photo by Sheila Webber: another cute mobile library parked outside the conference centre. (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) Sat, 14 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 864979 http://cubgovpubs.blogspot.com/2010/08/gao-reports-and-releases_13.html The Government Accountability Office (GAO) which is often called the investigative arm of Congress. These past few weeks GAO investigated education, medicare, formaldehyde, and other issues. If you would like to know more about GAO, check out the library's guide.ReportsState and Local Governments: Fiscal Pressures Could Have Implications for Future Delivery of Intergovernmental Programs. GAO-10-899, July 30.http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-899Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10899high.pdfHigher Education: Institutions' Reported Data Collection Burden Is Higher Than Estimated but Can Be Reduced through Increased Coordination. GAO-10-871, August 13.http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-871Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10871high.pdfFormaldehyde in Textiles: While Levels in Clothing Generally Appear to Be Low, Allergic Contact Dermatitis Is a Health Issue for Some People. GAO-10-875, August 13.http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-875Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10875high.pdfElectronic Waste: Considerations for Promoting Environmentally Sound Reuse and Recycling. GAO-10-626, July 12.http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-626Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10626high.pdfFederal Housing Finance Agency: Oversight of the Federal Home Loan Banks' Agricultural and Small Business Collateral Policies Could Be Improved. GAO-10-792, July 20.http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-792Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10792high.pdfHomeland Security: US-VISIT Pilot Evaluations Offer Limited Understanding of Air Exit Options. GAO-10-860, August 10.http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-860Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10860high.pdfTactical Aircraft: DOD's Ability to Meet Future Requirements Is Uncertain, with Key Analyses Needed to Inform Upcoming Investment Decisions. GAO-10-789, July 29.http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-789Highlights - http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d10789high. ... Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865399 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/t0EkZJ8_aYg/videos-from-digital-archives-navigating.html Columbia Law School hosted a day-long symposium on April 16, 2010 entitled "Digital Archives: Navigating the Legal Shoals".  They actually video recorded the entire day and those videos are now available.  Presentations included:If Only We Could Reach the Shoals: Barriers to Archives DigitizationCopyright Issues and Section 108 ReformCopyright Issues and Issues Beyond Copyright  How Do You Make a Decision When the Legal Answer is “Maybe”?I see a few of my favorite people were involved in this including Peter Hirtle, Kenneth Crews and Ricky Erway.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865698 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/08/videos-from-digital-archives-navigating.html Columbia Law School hosted a day-long symposium on April 16, 2010 entitled "Digital Archives: Navigating the Legal Shoals".  They actually video recorded the entire day and those videos are now available.  Presentations included:If Only We Could Reach the Shoals: Barriers to Archives DigitizationCopyright Issues and Section 108 ReformCopyright Issues and Issues Beyond Copyright  How Do You Make a Decision When the Legal Answer is “Maybe”?I see a few of my favorite people were involved in this including Peter Hirtle, Kenneth Crews and Ricky Erway.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 864958 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/ggvGVrf35XM/metros-digitization-libguide.html The Metropolitan NY Library Council has a libguide (bibliography) on digitization.  The guide include links on planning, image manipulation, copyright and more.  Missing is information on software (collection management systems).  Currently, METRO is using CONTENTdm and Omeka, although some if its members may be using other software. I believe that this guide was recently updated, which is always good to see.  Often resource lists are placed online and then forgotten which leads to broken links and outdated information.METRO has been very active in digitization for a number of years.  It recently released its book Digitization in the Real World, which contains case studies of small and medium-size organizations that have embarked on digitization program.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865700 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/08/metros-digitization-libguide.html The Metropolitan NY Library Council has a libguide (bibliography) on digitization.  The guide include links on planning, image manipulation, copyright and more.  Missing is information on software (collection management systems).  Currently, METRO is using CONTENTdm and Omeka, although some if its members may be using other software. I believe that this guide was recently updated, which is always good to see.  Often resource lists are placed online and then forgotten which leads to broken links and outdated information.METRO has been very active in digitization for a number of years.  It recently released its book Digitization in the Real World, which contains case studies of small and medium-size organizations that have embarked on digitization program.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. (Source: Digitization 101) Mon, 09 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 864960 http://laurenpressley.com/library/2010/08/the-awesomeness-of-archives-and-mashups/ zomg. You have to click through and look at these pictures. Please come back, though. I’ll wait. Okay, did you see them? Weren’t they awesome?! Seeing these pictures made me think about mashups again. I often talk about mashups in my lib100 classes. They’re a good tool for helping people think about how technology changes things and copyright. I show a few demos and that’s about it. There aren’t many that I’ve found to be useful for teaching my content. But can you imagine how much more meaningful a history class would be if looking at those photos? An architecture class? How would seeing photos like this affect your visit to a country if you saw them before hand? Afterwards? I don’t have much time for a long post on it this Friday afternoon, but stumbling across these photos made me think more about how archives could impact the curriculum, how mashups and technology can make some educational experiences more meaningful and rich, and about how visual learning can impact even those of us who learn more from words. And I thought you all might find it interesting, too. Have a happy weekend! Related posts:your local library-online your local library-online your local library-online (Source: lauren's library blog) Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:41:44 +0100 867758 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/08/cfp-reimagining-archive-remapping-and.html CFP: Reimagining the Archive: Remapping and Remixing Traditional Models in the Digital Era November 12, 13, 14, 2010University of California, Los Angeles, James Bridges TheaterVisit the website at http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/reimagining/Symposium - Screenings - SpeakersOpening keynote - Rick Prelinger, archivist, filmmaker, founder Prelinger Archives.Digitality has radically and dynamically transformed the role of traditional archives and museums as repositories for revered, to-be-safeguarded cultural objects. As de facto archives created by users and industry organizations proliferate online; as the social engagement and complexity of Web 2.0 culture expand; and as expansive copyright regimes entail ever more intrusive forms of monitoring and enforcement, archives' traditional missions of custody and controlled access are being challenged by the new habits and expectations of scholars, researchers, and the general public alike.We invite archivists, scholars, educators, technology professionals, and artists to submit 500-word abstracts for PAPERS, PANELS, PRESENTATIONS, POSTERS, and DEMONSTRATIONS that explore and examine the wide spectrum of issues influencing and impacting the evolution of archival access, practice, technology, and research in the digital era.Deadline for abstracts is flexible and proposals will be considered as they are received; preferably before October 1. Abstracts should be submitted to digital@ucla.edu.For more INFORMATION and to REGISTER: http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/reimagining/Organized by:UCLA Film & Television ArchiveUCLA M.A. Program in Moving Image Archive Studies (MIAS) Institut Nationalde l'Audiovisuel (INA), Paris INA'Sup / European Centre for Research,Training and Education on Digital MediaWith additional support from:National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program (NDIIPP),U.S. ... Fri, 06 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866359 http://blog.case.edu/orgs/ksl/news/2010/08/05/ksl_nordphd_students_workshop_8510 Graduate students working towards Ph.D. degrees prepare for their academic journey, getting special sessions on dissertation writing, bibliographic management software, scholarly inquiry experiences, time management, copyright & author's rights, and more at the 2nd Is There A Ph.D. in Your Future? workshop. Catherine Wells, Assistant Director of Public Services, outlines the day's KSL sessions: Charles Rozek, Vice Provost and Dean, Graduate Studies, shares his Ph.D. experiences: Denise Douglas, Senior Associate Dean, Graduate Studies, introduces the schedule & speakers: Sponsored by the School of Graduate Studies, the Kelvin Smith Library, the Graduate Student Senate Professional Development Committee, "Is There a Ph.D. In Your Future? Beginning the Dissertation : A practical workshop for doctoral students" is the second workshop of 2010, first presented Jan. 4, 2010. (Source: KSL News Blog) Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:48:41 +0100 865843 http://www.teleread.com/2010/08/05/copyright-troll-righthaven-files-75000-lawsuits-against-bloggers-who-repost-articles/ We’ve previously covered the Associated Press’s attack on bloggers for quoting material, and a company called Attributor that was supposed to start filing copyright violation suits on behalf of various clients including the AP earlier this year. While I haven’t heard anything more about Attributor, the Las Vegas Sun has an article on a copyright-police company called Righthaven, with an interesting business model that could be described as copyright trolling. Whereas up to now most newspapers have simply asked violators to take their content down, and replace it with links to the papers’ own sites, Righthaven has filed copyright lawsuits against 86 website owners in federal court since March. Righthaven’s procedure has been to “troll” to find an infringement of [a Las Vegas Review-Journal] copyright to a specific story. It then buys the copyright for that story from the R-J’s owner, Stephens Media LLC, and afterward sues the infringer. Buying the copyright is an important step because it allows Righthaven to seek statutory damages. (Some of the defendants are arguing that Righthaven lacks standing to sue them because Righthaven didn’t own the copyrights at the time of the initial infringement.) While the suits are against people who post the entire text of articles, not a fair-use-friendly snippet, they skip the intermediate step of requesting a takedown under the DMCA and go right to demanding $75,000 and the forfeiture of the domain name. The suits seem to be filed scattershot, without paying much attention to the nature of the attribution. Thus, the suits often hit people such as gaming industry observer Anthony Curtis, who posted a story that he was himself interviewed for. Stephen Bates, an assistant professor at UNLV’s Hank Greenspun School of Journalism, called the Righthaven lawsuits “the McDonald’s coffee cases of copyright litigation — lawful but preposterous. They’re a waste of judicial resources. ... Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:30:00 +0100 864725 http://mblc.state.ma.us/jobs/find_jobs/rss.php?job_id=6308 Scholarly Communications Librarian The Boston College Libraries seek an energetic and innovative leader to develop the Libraries' eScholarship@BC institutional repository program and associated initiatives to highlight and preserve the scholarly and research output of the University. The Scholarly Communications Librarian plays a key outreach role, promoting new forms of scholarly publication and Open Access (OA) activities and educating the Boston College community on intellectual property isues related to scholarly publishing. Working closely with both internal partners in the BC Libraries and external stakeholders (particularly faculty), and plays a central role in promoting eScholarship@BC and establishing the BC Libraries as a hub of conversation and services around scholarly communication and publishing. Building a robust and sustainable institutional repository is a key element of the Libraries' recently completed strategic planning process. The Scholarly Communications librarian will lead these efforts, building on work already under way as well as developing new services in support of the repository. Major components of the eScholarship@BC program include: A database of openly accessible faculty publications Growing electronic theses and dissertations program Open-access e-journals hosted by the libraries Faculty-contributed digital collections Digitized library special collections Research output from academic departments and research centers. This position, which reports to the Associate University Librarian for Collections, requires proven organizational, communication, and leadership skills coupled with an ability to manage in an ever-changing environment that embraces entrepreneurship, collaboration, and the continuing development of a learning organization. (Source: MBLC Job Listings) Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:05:02 +0100 864631 http://www.docuticker.com/?p=37881 New GAO Reports, Correspondence and Testimonies (PDFs) Source: Government Accountability Office 4 August 2010 + Reports 1. Medicaid Managed Care: CMS’s Oversight of States’ Rate Setting Needs Improvement 2. Social Security Administration: Cases of Federal Employees and Transportation Drivers and Owners Who Fraudulently and/or Improperly Received SSA Disability Payments 3. Highway Trust Fund: Nearly All States Received More Funding Than They Contributed in Highway Taxes Since 2005 4. Recovery Act: Further Opportunities Exist to Strengthen Oversight of Broadband Stimulus Programs – + Correspondence 1. In a Previous Rate-Setting Proceeding for Some Sound Recordings, the Standard Addressing the Disruptive Impact on the Industries Contributed to a Lower Copyright Royalty Rate, but the Effect of Its Proposed Removal Is Unclear – + Testimonies 1. For-Profit Colleges: Undercover Testing Finds Colleges Encouraged Fraud and Engaged in Deceptive and Questionable Marketing Practices, by Gregory D. Kutz, managing director, forensic audits and special investigations, before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions 2. Social Security Administration: Cases of Federal Employees and Transportation Drivers and Owners Who Fraudulently and/or Improperly Received SSA Benefits, by Gregory D. Kutz, managing director, forensic audits and special investigations, before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (Source: Docuticker) Wed, 04 Aug 2010 22:10:45 +0100 864651 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/04/new-online-arl-promotes-member-use-of-large-scale-digitization-principles-with-release-of-nine-prinicples/ From the Announcement: The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Board of Directors unanimously voted on July 26, 2010, to endorse a set of nine principles to guide vendor/publisher relations in large-scale digitization projects of special collections materials, recommended by its Transforming Special Collections in the Digital Age Working Group. The Board’s vote strongly encourages ARL member libraries to refrain from signing future agreements with publishers or vendors, either individually or through consortia, that do not adhere to the principles. [Snip] Special collections often include valuable and unique materials, but also incur special responsibilities for their stewards. Digital access to special collections materials has become important in revealing hidden materials and promoting humanities research, and ARL member libraries often require appropriate collaborations and partnerships to implement large-scale digitization activities. The nine principles address issues including implications of the distinctive character of special collections, the need for libraries to retain their own copies of the products of digitization projects, the importance of promoting broad access to digitized collections, and concerns regarding the collection of data about users of digitized collections. Access the Complete Document:Principles to Guide Vendor/Publisher Relations in Large-Scale Digitization Projects of Special Collections Materials (3 pages; PDF) The Nine Main Principles: Principle 1: Distinct collections demand extra vigilance in digitization. Principle 2: Libraries must respect any donor-imposed restrictions on the digitization and use of materials. Principle 3: Libraries should seek the broadest possible user access to digitized content. This includes patrons of other libraries and unaffiliated researchers. ... Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:19:13 +0100 864571 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TechsourceBlog/~3/kszSP2VIwZo/seize-and-solve-this-challenge.html Most professional challenges encompass both a problem to be solved and an opportunity to be seized.  One of the current central challenges of our profession, it seems to me, involves ensuring that libraries become viable and valuable in the burgeoning portable eReading field.  How can libraries compete with the likes of Amazon, Google, Apple, Sony, and Barnes & Noble?  COSLA, the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies, recently released a report that addresses this crucial challenge.  Our mission, should we choose to accept it, can be stated bluntly:  If convenient, enriching portable eReading becomes about half of all reading for pleasure within the next few years, as most experts now are predicting, how can public libraries become integral to the portable eReading experience?  The report, “COSLA: eBook Feasibility Study for Public Libraries,” involved a working team of several state library directors, including Stacey Aldrich from California, Jo Budler from Kansas, Rob Maier from Massachusetts, and Jim Scheppke from Oregon, and staff members from Pinpoint Logic, a design strategy and research firm based in Portland, Oregon.  (Full Disclosure: I did a little bit of work on this study and was remunerated for doing so.)   Eva Miller from PinPoint Logic conducted most of the interviews with library, publishing, and information technology leaders and wrote most of the final report.  Way to go, Eva.  The work of the task force always focused on worthwhile action, noting that “COSLA members wanted to arm themselves for action, instead of waiting to see how commercial forces would impact popular reading materials and the public library's central role in providing them.”  In the beginning, the task force seriously considered having a portable reading device manufactured specifically for public library users utilizing the library lending model. ... Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:08:37 +0100 867919 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/04/attack-dog-group-buys-newspaper-copyrights-sues-86-websites/ From the ABA Journal Article: So-called patent trolls have gotten lots of press for buying up and enforcing patents, but there appears to be a new kind of group with a different intellectual property focus—the copyright troll. A Las Vegas startup called Righthaven has purchased several copyrights to the Las Vegas Review-Journal and sued at least 86 website owners for copyright infringement, the Las Vegas Sun reports. The suits seek $75,000 in damages and forfeiture of the website domain names. “When it comes to fighting copyright theft in the news industry—the piracy of stories, editorials, columns, photos and videos—there are watchdogs and there are attack dogs,” the Sun says. “The Las Vegas Review-Journal and its copyright enforcement partner, a Las Vegas startup called Righthaven LLC, are squarely in the attack-dog category.” The story says Righthaven first trolls to find an infringement and then buys the copyright to the story. The next step is an infringement suit. Defendants include “mom-and-pop-type bloggers” such as the City Felines Blog and even the Democratic Party of Nevada, the Sun reports. Review-Journal publisher Sherman Frederick has written on his blog that the idea is to “stop people from stealing our stuff” and Righthaven is protecting journalism. Access the Complete ABA Journal Article See Also: Access the Complete Las Vegas Sun Article, “Legal attack dog sicked on websites accused of violating R-J copyrights” Access the Complete Las Vegas Sun Article, “Some targets of Righthaven lawsuits fighting back.” Access the Wired Article, “Newspaper Chain’s New Business Plan: Copyright Suits” Databases See Also: Four of the Lawsuits are Included in the Citizen Media Law Center “Threats” Database See Also: Access to Dockets (Pacer Required in Manu Cases) to 66 Cases Where Righthaven is Listed as Plaintiff (via Justia) (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:09:42 +0100 864573 http://www.teleread.com/2010/08/04/established-authors-and-the-self-publishing-backlist-an-interview-with-patricia-ryan-part-1/ Cory Doctorow and Joe Konrath are not the only e-pushing authors with already-planted stakes in the dead tree world! A growing cohort of Smashwords authors established writers who have regained rights to some or all of their backlist titles and have chosen to e-issue it themselves. A recent encounter I had with Patricia Ryan, who is one of them, first alerted me to this growing trend. THE BEAUTY OF THE INTERNET, PART 1: AS A MATCHMAKER Ryan found her way to me through a recommendation a Mobile Read user made to me when I was looking for some new titles. I had some Paypal balance to burn and did not want to incur transfer fees, so I wanted some Smashwords recommendations. I was especially interested in books that were either part of a series (so that I could have more than one to read if I liked it) or were non-fiction or historical-based so that I might get immersed in a world and maybe learn something. Patricia Ryan’s mystery novels, set in the 19th century, fit the bill perfectly. THE BEAUTY OF THE INTERNET, PART 2: AS A PR TOOL Now, here is where the true beauty of the internet kicks in: Ryan had apparently set up a Google Alert on herself, and when her name came up at Mobile Read, she found out we were talking about her and came on over. She personally thanked each person who mentioned buying one of her books, addressed some concerns about formatting and sought feedback on what readers wanted to see next. Well-played, Patricia Ryan! This is the first time I have heard of someone using Google Alerts to run their own self-PR! We had a fascinating exchange on ebook publishing, both from the reader and writer standpoints. Some highlights of our discussion (note: this is posted with her permission!) below: MY OPENING SALVO: I really appreciate authors, especially established ones, who embrace the digital age and do not put up barriers to people getting the books. ... Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:44:33 +0100 864736 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/NV8_FvfK7TY/ Cory Doctorow and Joe Konrath are not the only e-pushing authors with already-planted stakes in the dead tree world! A growing cohort of Smashwords authors established writers who have regained rights to some or all of their backlist titles and have chosen to e-issue it themselves. A recent encounter I had with Patricia Ryan, who is one of them, first alerted me to this growing trend. THE BEAUTY OF THE INTERNET, PART 1: AS A MATCHMAKER Ryan found her way to me through a recommendation a Mobile Read user made to me when I was looking for some new titles. I had some Paypal balance to burn and did not want to incur transfer fees, so I wanted some Smashwords recommendations. I was especially interested in books that were either part of a series (so that I could have more than one to read if I liked it) or were non-fiction or historical-based so that I might get immersed in a world and maybe learn something. Patricia Ryan’s mystery novels, set in the 19th century, fit the bill perfectly. THE BEAUTY OF THE INTERNET, PART 2: AS A PR TOOL Now, here is where the true beauty of the internet kicks in: Ryan had apparently set up a Google Alert on herself, and when her name came up at Mobile Read, she found out we were talking about her and came on over. She personally thanked each person who mentioned buying one of her books, addressed some concerns about formatting and sought feedback on what readers wanted to see next. Well-played, Patricia Ryan! This is the first time I have heard of someone using Google Alerts to run their own self-PR! We had a fascinating exchange on ebook publishing, both from the reader and writer standpoints. Some highlights of our discussion (note: this is posted with her permission!) below: MY OPENING SALVO: I really appreciate authors, especially established ones, who embrace the digital age and do not put up barriers to people getting the books. ... Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:44:33 +0100 864560 http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/024876.html In a Previous Rate-Setting Proceeding for Some Sound Recordings, the Standard Addressing the Disruptive Impact on the Industries Contributed to... (Source: beSpacific) Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 864647 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=15447 Executive Director (American Theological Library Association (ATLA), Illinois) The American Theological Library Association (ATLA) seeks an Executive Director with the ability to manage the complex operations of a membership organization that also produces a prestigious e-index and full text database in religion and theology. Located in downtown Chicago, ATLA has a staff of 35-40 FTEs and a budget of over $5.5 million. ... Wed, 04 Aug 2010 03:10:02 +0100 864342 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/03/mobile-web-library-of-congress-launches-their-first-mobile-app/ The new app (free) for iPhone/Pad/Touch is a virtual tour of the library. You can download it here. Matt Raymond writes on the LC Blog: The app includes highlights of exhibitions and architectural features, with photos, audio by curators and other experts, links to more detailed online exhibitions, and even a video about the history of Thomas Jefferson’s Library, which in 1815 reconstituted the Library of Congress after the British burned the Capitol in the War of 1812. The architectural photos come courtesy of Carol M. Highsmith, who has been donating magnificent collections of images to the Library copyright-free, for the American people Matt adds that the app, “is an ideal companion to an on-site tour, as much of its content tracks with the Library of Congress Experience in the Jefferson Building.” Congrats to everyone at LC especially the three staff members who developed it in-house. We’re downloading it now. Finally, the blog post end with a reminder that this is the first of many apps. We’ll do the best we can keeping you current here on ResourceShelf. Btw, we have sent along a request to find out if the new app (#1) will also be available for Android users. If/when we here back, we will let you know with an update to this post. Source: LC Blog See Also: Here’s the Description from the App Store: The Library of Congress is the world’s largest library and the largest body of knowledge under a single roof. Whether you’re onsite, at home, in a classroom or elsewhere, this app will give you a virtual tour that mirrors the Library of Congress Experience, an award-winning group of exhibitions and features that has drawn record numbers of visitors. (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:27:29 +0100 864410 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/03/senate-votes-to-clean-up-federal-copyright-laws/ From The Hill Article: The Senate unanimously approved legislation Monday night to clarify federal copyright laws. The Copyright Cleanup, Clarification and Corrections Act, introduced Monday by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and ranking member Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), implements several recommendations from the Copyright Office to make the agency’s operations more efficient. The bill also clarifies aspects of copyright law that are either ambiguous or have been made unclear by recent court decisions. [Clip] The bill includes rule changes that will make it easier for the Copyright Office to transition to digital recordkeeping and allow filers to submit documents electronically. It also asserts that dramatic or literary works were not “published” when included on a record album, allowing their original owners to retain their rights. Other changes clarify aspects of the law or correct technicalities that hamper the agency’s effectiveness. Access the Complete Article Read the Full Text of the Legislation (S. 3689; via GovTrack.us) Introduced and Passed on August 2, 2010 (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:28:59 +0100 864411 http://hangingtogether.org/?p=802 Our last panel of speakers during “Yours, Mine, Ours: Leadership through Collaboration“ focuses on global collaborations: A Critical Take: How Do We Present Cultural Content to Our Users? Nick Poole, Chief Executive, Collections Trust A Critical Take: How Do We Create and Maintain Standards? Eric Miller, President, Zepheira A Critical Take: How Do We Source Our Tools? Chris Prom, Assistant University Archivist, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign In this segment of the forum, we acknowledge all of the activity which has already gone into collaborations benefiting the entire community. However, we also feel it is time to take a step back and re-assess whether our current behaviors in creating shared aggregations, standards and tools are serving us well in meeting user expectations at the network level. Here’s the background: Global Solutions - Common Values “Things work at scale because the community subscribes to the same values.” In local and group collaborations, institutions and their interests are at the forefront, and the collaborative activity is predicated on the direct local benefit reaped. A collaboration guided by common values introduces a notable paradigm shift. It does not put the institutions first, but rather focuses on the intended audience and what that audience expects us to deliver. While any type of collaboration can be fueled by common values, including those circumscribed by institutional boundaries or specific group interests, value-based collaboration emerges as a survival strategy in the global networked environment. Ultimately, we all serve those who want access to our information, increasingly in digital form. Collaboration around values is driven by a shared vision which allows an entire community to respond to challenges in a consistent manner, and invisibly aligns all of us in an effort to realize a shared vision. ... Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:55:18 +0100 867380 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/03/yale-university-joins-hathitrust-and-some-current-hathitrust-statsvisualizations/ From the Announcement on the HathiTrust Homepage: We are pleased to announce that Yale University Library (YUL) has joined HathiTrust. [Our emphasis]The first items Yale has designated for deposit are approximately 29,000 books that YUL digitized with support from Yale University’s Provost’s Office and from the Microsoft Corporation. Yale is aiming for initial content delivery to HathiTrust in the September/October 2010 timeframe. According to Ann Okerson, Associate University Librarian for Collections and International Programs at Yale University, “Joining HathTrust helps Yale fulfill several current important goals: + Long term preservation for the Library’s digital content underlies our information and service needs, and we are fortunate to benefit from the sophisticated commitment of HathiTrust libraries in this critical area. + By providing access to the “Microsoft books,” we will complete the access piece of that project, realizing the Provost’s and Library’s considerable investment in digitizing these books. + We will join and have the opportunity to contribute to this important partnership and to affect its future planning after its start-up phase concludes (2013). + Participation in HathiTrust will complement and strengthen the Library’s participation in the Yale Digital Commons, a collaborative framework launched by Yale’s ODAI (Office of Digital Assets and Infrastructure) to develop services to support the lifecycle management and use of Yale’s digital assets. HathiTrust is one component of a wider digital preservation strategy for Yale, integrating relationships with community-based solutions like HathiTrust with local implementation where required. ... Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:46:04 +0100 864247 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/6E9D3ItF_4M/ I have been an avid reader of Teleread for about two years now and have contributed pieces since last year. In this brief span of time, I have become a full fledged supporter of developing a well-stocked national digital library. In an earlier piece “Death, Senescence and E-books” I asked whether it wouldn’t be prudent to create free or low cost access to e-books and e-readers for long-term hospital patients. In that brief period of time my conviction was sealed and I now find myself in a position to take on a relatively small, but challenging role in advancing the concept of a digital library, from the purely abstract to the realm of the very real. This is occurring in a completely different setting than the one I addressed in that earlier piece: this setting is full of similar constraints but it’s also full of endless possibilities. I am alluding to the idea of creating a digital library for a New Jersey inner-city school, which is facing the same budgetary constraints that most of the state’s schools are facing. It has to walk a tight line between spending and results as it takes on the challenge of engaging urban learners. In a book called “The Other Wes Moore” author Wesley Moore conveys the story of divergent paths that two inner-city young boys faced: one being the successful author, while the other Wes Moore being a convicted murderer. There were small choices and decisions that pushed both men in differing paths, with one of the most salient being the author’s development of a love for reading. He describes how he took on one book after another and in doing so discovered the person that he wanted to be; his polar opposite did not under-go this process. It was with this tale in mind and with the earlier conviction developed from noticing the decrepit libraries that hospices contain, that I took on the challenge of creating a digital library. ... Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:57:33 +0100 864394 http://freegovinfo.info/node/3068 More reporting on the hearing this week on Public Access to Federally-Funded Research: In his testimony to the House Committee On Oversight and Government Reform, Alan Adler of the Association of American Publishers, said: Publishers strongly believe that American taxpayers are entitled to the research they've paid for.... But taxpayers have not paid for the private sector, peer-reviewed journal articles reporting on that research. ...Peer-reviewed articles published in scholarly journals are not research, federally-funded or otherwise. They describe and explain the process, findings and significance of research. They require substantial amounts of the publisher's resources to ensure that their content is accurate, new, and important. Or, as Barbara Fister comments at Inside Higher Education, Sure, taxpayers are entitled to federally funded research, but "peer-reviewed articles published in scholarly articles are not research." No, they are the intellectual property of publishers, because they're the ones who spend all kinds of money to make sure the science in them is accurate. I'm not kidding. He actually said that. It's publishers who make sure the research is "accurate, new, and important." That peer review you do for free? They have to spend millions to make sure you do it right. So we have no problem, and taxpayers have to right to this stuff because it's not research. (Source: Free Government Information (FGI) blogs) Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:39:45 +0100 864213 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/OD16mlwdzmw/flipboard-maakt-informatie-bloedmooi.html Gisteren kreeg ik een iPad te leen. Je leest het goed: te leen. Tien dagen nadat het apparaat op de Nederlandse markt verscheen, wat leidde tot rijen voor winkels in heel Nederland, ook in Middelburg. Noem dat gerust een mazzeltje. Ik beschouw het zelf als een prachtige kans om een week lang met het apparaat te spelen en de mogelijkheden te verkennen. Daar kom ik, uiteraard, nog op terug. Van een toepassing ben ik in ieder geval al helemaal ondersteboven: Flipboard. Over die app had ik al veel positieve berichten gelezen. Mijn nieuwsgierigheid was groot. Toen ik de iPad gisteren had uitgepakt en opgestart was het dan ook de eerste toepassing die ik downloadde en bekeek. Mijn mond viel open. Zo ziet gepersonaliseerde informatievoorziening er vanaf de zomer van 2010 dus uit. Dit is de nieuwe standaard. Ik heb nieuwsfeeds, twitterberichten en Facebookberichten nog nooit zo fraai bijeen zien komen. Eigenlijk is de app niet eens vernieuwend. De app is vooral slim, mooi en verleidelijk. Overzichtelijk ook. Ik zou zelfs bijna dat woord gebruiken dat begint met ge en eindigt op il. Nooit gedacht dat informatie die status zou kunnen bereiken, zeker real-time informatie niet. Een killer! Meer lezen: Flipboard: ieder zijn eigen Twitterglossy Waarom Flipboard niet alleen heel gaaf maar ook heel slim is. Maakt Flipboard zich schuldig aan copyright-schending? @ Foto: Marco v.d. Knaap (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:18:00 +0100 864246 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibrarylawBlog/~3/uUyBeFst7Gc/cutting-edge-on-copyright-domestic-and-international.html Two interviews of interest to librarians on copyright. The first is an insider's look at WIPO from a library advocate's point of view, by Janice Pilch, University of Illinois.  The second is on the new DMCA exemptions issued by the Librarian of Congress, and is by Abigail De Kosnik, Gary Handman and Mark Kaiser, University of California, Berkeley.http://fairuse.stanford.edu/ (Source: LibraryLaw Blog) Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:58:00 +0100 864692 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/g3e4xWlnIms/ Gawker’s Valleywag section posts a tip it’s gotten, that Wired editor Chris Anderson is reportedly preparing a cover story for the magazine in which he declares that “the Web is Dead”. He will apparently argue that content is moving to more restricted corners of the ‘net, such as iPad and iPhone apps. According to Valleywag, this comes at a time when there is a “cold war” on between the print Wired Magazine and the on-line Wired Digital (Wired.com/Reddit) divisions—Anderson has reportedly called Wired.com a “business failure, generating little cash for publishing company Condé Nast” (though he claims he was misquoted). Of course, this declaration, if it actually happens (Anderson has refused to comment), must be looked at in light of the business goals of Condé Nast. Anymore, Wired.com actually carries relatively little content from the print (and now tablet) magazine, and what content it does carry usually comes a month or so after it sees publication in print. Meanwhile, Wired has developed an “underwhelming” app version of its magazine for tablets (and a separate one for the iPad, necessitated by Apple’s refusal to allow Flash or third-party development environments). It stands to reason Anderson would want to declare the unmonetizable web “dead” if it would push more people to subscribe to the costly iPad app. But wishing won’t necessarily make it so, and it’s still an open question whether, after the “new” wears off, people will still flock to an iPad version that is considerably more expensive than it would be to subscribe to the print edition. Prince and the Digital Revolution And Anderson would hardly be the first to declare the public ‘net to be passé. ... Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:15:00 +0100 864399