Entries from ©ollectanea tagged with 'future of the book'
Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education -- And Section 108
The Center for Social Media at American University recently launched yet another in its amazing line of best practices guides, The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education. I have received notes from so many people...
Settlement controlled pricing and tests on effects of openness
I looked around this morning for discussion of one of the points about the Google Book Search settlement that I consider among the most important, but I just didn't turn up anything. Granted, I only did a Google search and...
Doctorow's CC licensed book, Little Brother, now at 4 weeks on NYT Bestseller List
Speaking of the future, here's a glimpse: Doctorow: First CC-Licensed Work on NYT Best Sellers List/New Graphic Novel - Creative Commons. Hooray for Cory Doctorow, showing the world (again) that free digital can sell (lots of) paper. Mmm. Smell that...
Scattering thought across the Web
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...
Semantic web and copyright
Yahoo! announced today that it will be supporting Semantic Web and microformats to improve search results for structured data (as reported in ReadWrite Web: And Nerds Became Kings: Yahoo! to Announce Semantic Web Support - ReadWriteWeb). The Semantic Web has...
Siva Vaidhyanathan's fellowship at the Institute for the Future of the Book
One of my favorite blogs is the Institute for the Future of the Book, if:book as it's called, which I read every time it's updated. So I learned last week that Siva Vaidhyanathan would be joining the Institute as its...
Publishers choosing to do without drm
A fellow Texan, and a fellow Ph.D. candidate (at North Texas State University), Brian Kenney gave a lecture about 2 weeks ago, ALA TechSource | Does Print Still Matter? Brian Kenney on the Future of Content in a 2.0 World,...
A Big Week for Copyright; End of First Year of Grad School for Georgia
It was a big week for copyright. Events were reported all over the blogosphere. My friend and fellow grad student, Carlos Ovalle, has a nice roundup on his blog, Copy This Blog, where he reports several unsurprising legal opinions based...
We're Here! Come visit!
Thanks to Kim, Olga, Jack and all those at CIP whose work over the last month or two brought (c)ollectanea to life. This is a wonderful opportunity to expand the good work of the CIP by bringing members of its...
Presses diversifying -- very good news!
Encouraging note in the Feb. 1 Library Journal Academic Newswire, For Oxford University Press, Online Venture Breathes New Life into the Monograph, describes just the kind of thing I'm excited to see in the scholarly publishing arena -- a...
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