Multi-Purpose Librarian
Posted in Copyright, Orphan Works on Apr 29th, 2008
Georgia Harper has a strongly negative critique of the new orphan works legislation that is well worth a read.
The House version of the bill is so burdensome I would much prefer just to rely on fair use, even with all its uncertainty, than to know for certain that the burden for each and every [...]
Posted in Copyright, Creative Commons Evangelism, Musings on Apr 28th, 2008
Paul Courant recently posted on his blog about changing his Creative Commons license from Attribution-NonCommercial (BY-NC) to Attribution (BY). It has me thinking about the significance of the different licenses, and it also has me wondering whether I should change mine. What follows is my meandering thought process.
For reference, here’s a page that describes all [...]
Posted in Copyright, Orphan Works on Apr 25th, 2008
New Orphan Works legislation was officially introduced yesterday. Alex Curtis at Public Knowledge has written a clear and detailed overview of the two versions of the bill which briefly explains the orphan works problem and outlines the important differences between the Senate bill, which is “clean”, and the House bill, which has a lot of [...]
Posted in Orphan Works on Apr 23rd, 2008
Apparently, the drafts of the Orphan Works legislation that I posted about and made available for download were intended to be confidential until they are officially introduced. I’m temporarily disabling the post until that happens, probably some time in the next day or two.
To be clear, I wasn’t party to any confidentiality agreement, but I’m [...]
Posted in Copyright, Orphan Works on Apr 22nd, 2008
UPDATE 4/25/08: The legislation was officially introduced yesterday, so I’m re-publishing this post. Apparently, the House bill to which it refers has been modified substantially, so some of it is probably out of date. More soon.
Draft copies of a new Orphan Works Act were released by both the House and Senate today. It hasn’t [...]
Posted in Copyright, Orphan Works on Apr 16th, 2008
Somehow, my last post on orphan works has become the fourth hit on Google when you search for “Orphan Works Act”, as of 12:30 pm EST on April 16th. This is contrary to everything I know about search engine optimization, but that’s for another day.
The point is that, as a result of the post’s high [...]
Posted in Copyright, Creative Commons Evangelism on Apr 3rd, 2008
I’m a huge fan of the Creative Commons, and I promote their licenses and their work whenever I can. One of my current CC-related interests is in companies that build profit-making business models around the use of CC-licensed work. Jamendo distributes music for free to fans under a CC-NC license, and then sells commercial uses [...]
