July 29 marked the second MPublishing Copyright Camp – this year with Deborah Wythe of the Brooklyn Museum. Copyright Camp is MPublishing’s way of making copyright fun, and we’ve had the great benefit of working with the great team at Open.Michigan on these events. What is Copyright Camp? On the last Friday of July we invite a speaker to discuss some aspect of copyright then break into informal discussion groups that allow copyright experts to mix and…
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There are potentially thousands of “orphan works” in the U-M Library collection that are in-copyright, digitized, and preserved works in the HathiTrust Digital Library–yet remain unavailable because copyright holders cannot be found or contacted. The Orphan Works Project, which began last month, has just announced that U-M Library will make any identified orphan works available to U-M Library users via the HathiTrust so that they are searchable, viewable, and accessible. From the press release: The…
From the press release: The University of Michigan Library’s Copyright Office is launching the first serious effort to identify orphan works among the in-copyright holdings of the HathiTrust Digital Library, which is funding the project. The vast majority of HathiTrust’s holdings are in-copyright (73%). An unknown percentage of these are so-called “orphans,” that is, in-copyright works whose owners cannot be identified or located. The lack of hard data on the number of orphans in the…
Back in October of 2008, MLibary became one of the first academic libraries to apply a Creative Commons license to its website content. At the time, the Library opted for the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (“CC BY NC”) license. More recently, on November 18th, 2010, the library changed the default Creative Commons license used for all content created by librarians and staff hosted on the library website to an Attribution-only (“CC BY”) license. Why did…
With Special Guests: Peter DiCola and Amer Ahmed When: Friday April 8th, 7 PM (come after TEDxUofM) Where: University of Michigan North Quad, room 2435 See the acclaimed film Copyright Criminals that takes a hard look at the debate over musical sampling, artistic expression, copyright law, and money. Following the movie there will be a discussion with Peter DiCola and Amer Ahmed. Peter is the co-author of Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital…
Brownbag Event: After The Google Books Settlement Thursday March 31st, 11:30am – 1pm, Library Gallery (Room 100) Hosted by the Copyright Office, part of MPublishing Come join the Copyright Office staff for a discussion of the rejection of the Google Books Settlement and the future implications (if there are any) for MLibrary activities. On March 22nd, the judge presiding over the Google Books Case announced that he has rejected the proposed settlement between The Author’s…
The Copyright Office has wonderful news to share with you. First, TWO Copyright Office interns were selected for this summer’s highly selective Google Policy Fellowship program, Jessie Mannisto and Liz Allen. Jessie Mannisto, who interned with us in the summer of 2010, has been accepted as a Google Policy Fellow at the American Library Association‘s (ALA) Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP). The OITP “advances ALA’s public policy activities by helping secure information technology policies that…
The American Physical Society (APS) is now giving all authors who publish in either Physical Review or Physical Review Letters the choice to publish their article as Libre Open Access. Open Access (OA) articles are article which can be read online without cost to the reader. Libre Open Access is when the article is not only available to read without cost but also available under a license which allows reuse. The APS is giving authors…
In consultation with the Library Copyright Office, the University of Michigan Medical School Public Relations and Marketing has adopted a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license for all of the images in their Health System ImageBank. While the images will still be available for use by any official U-M or UM Health Systems department for official purposes, the images can now also be used by anyone for non-commercial purposes as long as attribution is given.
The CIC issued a final report on open access practices and attitudes at CIC universities. The scan involved over 220 librarians and over 2000 faculty. The University of Michigan participated in the environmental scan. While not comprehensive, the report provides insight about attitudes about open access in different disciplines and faculty practices and attitudes.