It's funny how things connect up. Since I returned home from the CIP annual Symposium on UMUC's campus, I've been reading the copyright news with little enthusiasm. I see important things going on (like the brewing ACTA storm), but I...
There are a couple of new efforts to place caselaw on publicly-accessible websites and challenge the "duopoloy" of Lexis and Westlaw. This article explains just what Tim Wu (a Columbia law professor) and Carl Malamud (public interest crusader) are up...
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) recently announced a deal that would permit Amazon to copy and then sell historic film and videotape from its vast documentary and newsreel collections. A Washington Post article gives the details of this...
I don't often lose sleep over copyright issues anymore. But last night I could not stop thinking about the Copyright Office's new resource for *children.* Please have a look if you haven't already: Taking the Mystery Out of Copyright. There's...
If you use an RSS reader, you can subscribe to a feed of all future entries tagged 'digitization'. [What is this?]