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Category Archives: copyright
Public Domain Day gifts
Quite the festive day today! All over the world, people who use the Gregorian calendar are celebrating New Year’s Day. Here in Philadelphia, it’s Mummer’s Parade day. And in my church, it’s a special day dedicated to Mary, the mother … Continue reading
Posted in copyright, sharing
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Quick! While there’s still time!
Folks interested in copyright information sharing may be interested in the following draft proposal for encoding copyright evidence in MARC records, the standard format used for library catalog records. It was published on December 17, just a couple of days … Continue reading
Quick links of interest
Some resources I’ve recently hear about that look like they deserve some attention (which I haven’t given them yet, but find worth noting now) The first issue of the Code4lib journal is out, with lots of interesting-looking articles on next-generation … Continue reading
Kids on the lawn, and copynorms
There’s an interesting discussion over in John Scalzi’s blog about a new organization called the Organization for Transformative Works, which essentially aims to legitimize fan fiction as first-class expressions safe from copyright challenges. As I write this, there are over … Continue reading
Posted in copyright, sharing
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Copyright information sharing: An update
I regularly get mail about the web pages I have on copyright registrations and renewals and the inventory I did on the first renewals of periodicals. Turns out a lot of folks, both inside and outside of libraries, are interested … Continue reading
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