If you are a librarian and aren't concerned with digital licensing issues, well, you should be a librarian who is concerned with digital licensing issues. CopyRightLaws.com is sponsoring a 9 week online course on digital licensing which looks to be an interesting experience.
CopyRightLaws.com is run by Lesley Ellen Harris, a laywer with years of experience dealing with copyright issues. In addition to running the online workshop, she also offers several articles and other resources for free on her website.
| Categorized in: Form: Workshop , Library: Digital/Web , Process: Content Management , Process: Digitization , Topic: Intellectual PropertySomeone arrived at the site looking for information about DSpace. Here some is.
DSpace is two very interesting and useful things - first, it is a way for faculty, staff, and students at MIT to leverage the intellectual property produced by the school to best serve the needs of the school. Secondly, it is an open-source software tool developed by MIT that will allow other universities to do the same.
You'll probably want to read more about DSpace yourself.
| Categorized in: Form: Application , Library: Academic , Library: Digital/Web , Process: Archiving , Process: Digitization , Process: Preservation , Process: Records Management , Topic: Intellectual Property , Topic: Knowledge ManagementKeeping up with intellectual property law pointed me to this:
The Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act. This is a seemingly harmless bit of legislation aimed at protecting people's hard work - but it could be used to eventually close to the public a large amount of information that is now freely accessible online. I won't go into a total information is the right of man to his own self tirade... but I will point to the direction of Public Knowledge.org's Public Action to send a fax to your Representative and Committee Leadership, telling them why they should oppose H.R. 3261.
Link awareness through Copyfight.org
Other must reads through Electronic Frontier Federation