From the monthly archives: September 2009
A recent conversation on an e-mail list for theological librarians (the branch of academic librarianship in which I began my own professional career) has lead me to reflect on exactly what problem it is that open access is designed to solve.
The exchange involved a journal called “Studies in Religion,” which is subscribed to primarily [...]
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The hearings last week before the House Judiciary Committee about the proposed settlement in the copyright infringement lawsuit over the Google Books project once again showed the disparate opinions that the proposed settlement has generated. There is a NY Times report on the hearings here.
One of the most interesting features of the hearing [...]
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The World Economic Forum recently published its 2009 Global Competitiveness Report, and I was struck by one particular statistic, as well as the conclusion drawn from it by the US Chamber of Commerce. One of the many statistical tables in the WEF report ranks the perceived strength of national protection for intellectual property. The [...]
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When I wrote a few weeks ago suggesting broader latitude for fair use in the case of academic and scholarly works, I contrasted that position to the more “revolutionary” one proposed in the title of Steven Shavell’s recent article “Should Copyright of Academic Works be Abolished?” Shavell, who is professor of law and [...]
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The title of this post is an axiom I learned in law school, drilled into us by a professor of tax law but made into an interrogative here. Because the copyright law is often compared to the tax code these days, I have usually just accepted the complexity of the former, as with the latter, [...]
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Recommended Readings- A State Law Approach to Preserving Fair Use in Academic Libraries"By David R. Hansen" Posted by klsmith to myblog contracts copyright on Thu Sep 15 2011 […]
- Canada's Orphan Works Regime: Unlocatable Copyright Owners and the Copyright Board"Article by Jeremy De Beers and Mario Bouchard form the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, Winter 2010" Posted by klsmith to myblog Canada "orphan works" copyright on Thu Sep 15 2011 […]
- Print or Perish: Authors' attitudes towards electronic-only publication of law journals"Duke Law Librarian Dick Danner and colleagues report on a study about how authors feel if their articles (in law journals) were no longer available on paper" Posted by klsmith to publication digital myblog on Mon Aug 08 2011 […]
- Copyright in the Age of YouTube | ABA Journal - Law News Now"Details how DMCA is rapidly become out-of-date as digital technology changes." Posted by klsmith to myblog technology digital copyright on Thu Jan 29 2009 […]
- A State Law Approach to Preserving Fair Use in Academic Libraries
As Duke University’s first Scholarly Communications Officer, Kevin Smith’s principal role is to teach and advise faculty, administrators and students about copyright, intellectual property licensing and scholarly publishing. 
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