If you’re going to spend 50 minutes of your life online, do it watching this (by lessig)
Internet Activist Charged in Data Theft - NYTimes.com
Includes full indictment of Aaron Swartz…
The Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings
“Due to copyright restrictions the digital collection is only fully accessible from computers on the UCLA campus.”
Out of Fear, Institutions Lock Millions of Books and Images - Chronicle of Higher Education
“A library of 8.7 million digital volumes. A trove of 100,000 ocean-science photos. An archive of 57,000 Mexican-music recordings.”
The move to digital and the remarkable growth of the Internet forever changed the landscape to which copyright law applies.
-Emily Goodhand
” Copyright For Education: Should copyright law just be abolished?Media Policy Project Policy Brief 1: Creative Destruction and Copyright Protection | LSE Media Policy Project
The music industry and artists should innovate and actively reconnect with their sharing fans rather than treat them as criminals.
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries
Via the Association of Research Libraries.
Harvard University Press - In Praise of Copying by Marcus Boon
Go ahead, take a copy. (Thanks to Antonio Marvel).
Josh Benton, of the Nieman Journalism Lab, illuminating on aggregation, tweets and copyright at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
Joshua Benton on Journalisms Digital Transition (via BerkmanCenter)
"Marvel Sends Letter To Creators About Apple iPad Urging They Stay Positive" -Bleeding Cool
The history of comic artists’ struggle for fair pay/copyright control continues. As Scott Kurtz phrased it: “Marvel sends creators letter to “stay positive” about iPad app. No word on if creators should stay positive about no royalties from sales.” Rich Johnston reports.
Harvard’s Berkman Center and eIFL.net Launch “Copyright for Librarians” | Berkman Center
From the press release:
March 24, 2010 - Cambridge, Mass., and Rome, Italy - The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University today announced the launch of a new online, open access curriculum, “Copyright for Librarians” (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/copyrightforlibrarians/), developed in conjunction with eIFL.net. “Copyright for Librarians” aims to inform librarians about copyright law in general, as well as the aspects of copyright law that most affect libraries, especially those in developing and transition countries.
Google & the Future of Books - The New York Review of Books
Almost a recent classic, to offer another view on the GBS: Robert Darnton’s February 2009 article published on the NYRB.
For The Love Of Culture | The New Republic
On the Google Books Settlement by Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Harvard Law School and author of Remix (Penguin, 2009). Nice to read a long(er) essay by him.
