Create like it’s 1790 align=”left” border=0> A first-timer at Thursday’s blog group sent me some interesting links about a group of people who are trying to increase the amount of material going into the public domain. The Eric Eldred Act Web site (which includes a blog about copyright law) came about as part of Eldred [...]
The radio show Here and Now did a piece today about copyright, the public domain, and the Internet, beginning with a discussion about the song “Happy Birthday,” which under current copyright legislation will not be in the public domain until 2030, and ending with a discussion of Creative Commons, a way people can opt to [...]
Privacy and blogging has come up a lot recently, so I thought maybe I’d say something about it in my space. The privacy issue here deals with identifying people on a blog. Wendy of Redhead fame talked about it on her blog recently. She, Andrew, and I talked about it while walking home from a [...]
From today’s Boston Globe: “Boston College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, citing concerns about student privacy, moved yesterday to quash subpoenas issued by the recording industry to discover the identities of students the industry says are illegally distributing copyrighted music.” The hunt for student violators at several other universities and colleges is discussed in [...]
My friend Kevin e-mailed me this item this morning. I’m posting it here with his permission. “This quote was sent to STUMPERS for verification (probably WWII Seabees), but it struck as a likely motto for librarians who at any time do reference/public service work: ‘We the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible [...]