Copyright! Complicated, confusing, and not clear-cut. What does a librarian need to know? Michael Sauers and Laura Johnson, from the Nebraska Library Commission, will present…
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I’ve participated in several online discussion recently over some copyright questions. Almost every time, the question involves something generally innocuous, but the person isn’t all…
Uh… NO! The U.S. Copyright Office recently proposed a seemingly small addition to copyright law that bears some huge implications. It wants to enable copyright…
To most consumers it is common sense that they can make a backup copy of media they own, but in the UK this is currently…
Published on Mar 14, 2014 A Netflix for pirates, lapel cameras and copyright, banning handheld devices for kids, and more. Featuring librarian Katie Fortney, the…
I honestly appreciate this LinkedIn endorsement I received earlier today though I’m pretty sure I’m reading it much differently than how it was intended. And…
You’ll have a hard time finding a copyright monopoly maximalist who insists that public libraries should be banned. This would be political suicide; instead, they…
By allowing limited use of copyrighted material for things like criticism, review, commentary, parody, or just personal non-commercial use, fair use has a widespread and…
You can dismiss pirates as just being greedy and surely able to pay if they wanted, just as you could dismiss the colonist tea drinkers…
Here’s a bizarre one on so many levels. The FBI has a top secret 70-page “interrogation manual.” For years, the ACLU has been trying to…