Category Archives: copyright

July 29, 2010

“Media Matters” and Copyright Issues

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Yesterday’s Inside Higher Ed update contained links to several posts that mentioned the Librarian of Congress’s release of 3-year exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act on Monday.  As a result of the exemption request process, professors and film and … Continue reading →

January 13, 2010

Copyright and Orphaned Works

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Cory Doctorow over at Boing Boing notes that 98% of all work currently protected by copyright are “orphaned”—protected from indiscriminate use but with no author or estate to uphold the responsibilities of ownership. The result, as The Public Domain spells … Continue reading →

November 2, 2009

Crews through Copyright

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Last Thursday, Kathleen Kornell (UIP copyright czar) and I attended a copyright primer given by Columbia University’s Kenneth Crews and hosted by the University of Illinois Graduate College and University Library. Crews, who is currently the Director of the Copyright … Continue reading →