Public Information for All: An Interview with Carl Malamud
Photo courtesy of James Duncan Davidson and O'Reilly Media
Since the early 1990s, Carl Malamud has made it his business to return to the public what is rightfully theirs: free access to public information. Despite legislation that mandates such acc...
Public Information for All: An Interview with Carl Malamud
Photo courtesy of James Duncan Davidson and O'Reilly Media
Since the early 1990s, Carl Malamud has made it his business to return to the public what is rightfully theirs: free access to public information. Despite legislation that mandates such acc...
Library of Congress Sets Goals in Digital Preservation Report, Including Push for Copyright Change
The Library of Congress (LC), in a new report [PDF] on its National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) released last week, laid out several plans for the future, including increased advocacy for changes in copyright law a...
Columbia's Neal on Section 108 Study Group: Content Providers Digging In
What about digital ILL?Internet Archive a 'cloud'; over deliberationsCongressional hearings may be comingThis spring, the Section 108 Study Group, chartered in 2005 to inform legislative changes to update the Copyright Act's exception for libraries and ar...
Law Librarians, Schools Propose Bold Move to Digital, Open Access Alternative
End print law journalsGreater access to scholarshipSupported by more than 30 top law schools, lawlibrariansGo back to the
Academic Newswire for more stories(This article appeared in the March 3 issue of the LJ Academic Newswire.)
In a broad c...
BackTalk: Free (or Fee) to All?
In 2004, when five libraries inked the first book-scanning agreements with Google, it seemed like the company was offering a public service. Google's plan to digitize the great libraries of the world conjured images of a vast, freely accessible Internet p...
Study Suggests "Fair Use" Means Big Business
The Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) last week issued a study suggesting that "fair use dependent industries" contributed more than $4.5 trillion in annual revenue for the United States in 2006, roughly one sixth of the nation's gro...
BackTalk: HathiTrust and the Google Deal
In 2008, some of the world's great research libraries created HathiTrust, a unified, comprehensive digital collection of the published record. As the Google settlement winds its way forward, many will surely wonder how HathiTrust will relate to the produc...
NIH Update: Bill Would Forbid Copyright Transfer as a Condition for Federal Funding
Future policies likeNIH would be barredWitness list announcedDraft text posted, but bill not yet introducedThe public access battle lines have been drawn: if passed, the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act, set for a Congressional hearing tomorrow, would...
Lessig, Eisen, Conyers Trade Barbs Over Controversial Copyright Bill
Big Paper?WasHR 801's road to reintroduction paved with publisher money?Conyers rebukes Lessig & Eisen; Eisen rebukes ConyersGo back to the
Academic Newswire for more storiesSure, times are tough, but can you really buy John Conyers (D-MI), c...