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…
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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…
April is the cruelest month, not only for “breeding Lilacs out of the dead land … and stirring Dull roots with spring rain,”* but also because everyone’s end of the year papers are due. We understand this, because every April we at the Copyright Office get a lot of questions about papers, theses, and dissertations. This year, we, along with one of our fabulous interns, Jessie Mannisto, have prepared some resources to help answer some of our frequently asked questions. Jessie has complied resources and…
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…
Library Journal featured the IMLS-funded MLibrary work on the Copyright Review Management System. The article explains the work being undertaken by Michigan and the collaborative contributions by several partner libraries, and has some good quotes by our own Anne Karle-Zenith. Perhaps most importantly, it highlights the value of the work in providing access to substantial numbers of post-1922 US works that we have now determined to be in the public domain.
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.
SkyRiver, LLC, a library cataloging service, filed an antitrust lawsuit against OCLC in the Northern District of California on July 28, 2010. The suit alleges anti-competitive and monopolistic behavior. OCLC recently caused controversy in the library community by proposing a revised use policy that would have required libraries to be restrictive in the use of their own library records. The filing and information on the revised OCLC use policy are available to view online.
The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Information Policy, the Census and National Archives announced it will hold a hearing on the issue of public access to federally funded research on Thursday, July 29. The hearing is open and public. The hearing notice says that, “The hearing will examine the state of public access to federally-funded research in science, technology, and medicine. The hearing will assess and delineate the…