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In March the ACRL published a new White Paper on Intersections of Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy: Creating Strategic Collaborations for a Changing Academic Environment which looks at the ways in which the dramatic changes taking place in the environment for scholarly communication have necessary consequences for nearly all librarians, and especially those who [...]
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The decision in the Kirtsaeng v. Wiley case was released this morning, and the outcome is wonderful for libraries. I have not had the chance to read the whole opinion yet, but the upshot is that the Second Circuit rule that said that First Sale applied only to materials manufactured in the United States was [...]
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I seldom write a post that is just a link to someone else’s work, but I am afraid that non-specialists, especially in the U.S., may not regularly read the blog of Canadian law professor Ariel Katz. And this post about the GSU case deserves widespread attention. Katz does a wonderful job of pointing us [...]
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I have to start by saying that I am not an economist, and I know just enough to understand that economic analysis is never simple or straightforward. And yet, when these two different news items came to my attention in a short time frame, the link between the two of them still seemed pretty obvious.
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When U.S. News and World Reports runs a major article on academic journal publishing and the open access movement, it should be pretty clear that there are big changes afoot. And the past couple of weeks have seen major developments in the movement toward public access for taxpayer-funded research, both here in the U.S. [...]
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I have just learned that Judge Evans issued her ruling in the Georgia State case this afternoon. I have not seen it yet, but am told it is quite long and that only a handful of infringements were found among the 99 instrances of copying that were challenged. I will post about the judge’s analysis [...]
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I will be out of the country for a three week trip to Turkey starting May 17. I would not ordinarily impose this fact on my readers — although I am very excited about it — but for the fact that my departure date is May 17. As many of you know, the copyright infringement [...]
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Copyright junkies will remember the superb blog maintained for several years by copyright scholar, author and practitioner William Patry. Many will also recall that Patry shuttered his blog in 2008, in part because of his growing perception that readers were not able to separate his personal opinions expressed therein from official policies or opinions of [...]
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Two letters landed on my desk a few weeks ago, both from the Copyright Clearance Center. I have written before about concerns over what we are actually paying for when we pay permission fees to CCC, and my experience with these two letters deepened that concern.
The first letter asked us to give [...]
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In the brief time since the Amended Google Books Settlement was filed with the court (on Friday the 13th) and released to the public, there has been a flurry of commentary from a variety of perspectives. Two interesting themes have emerged, however, from those on both sides of the great debate over whether the [...]
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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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