I haven’t done a Joys of the Public Domain/Creative Commons post in a while! Today, some fleurs. Cherry blossoms are kinda the archetypical spring flower. The Sheba Temple (likely what’s now known as Zōjō-ji), by Herbert Ponting, c. 1907. The National Archives UK Artist painting cherry blossoms along the Tidal…
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Copyright time-travel is a bad idea
©Libn, circa 1976The lawsuit against Georgia State University brought by a number of academic publishers (including Cambridge, Oxford, and Sage) and funded by the ostensibly non-profit Copyright Clearance Center proceeds to trial on Monday morning. At issue is the widespread re-use and sharing of academic content among faculty, staff, and…
Librarian’s Copyright Litany, Take 2
I got some great input, both here on the blog and elsewhere, on the Librarian’s Copyright Litany. Here’s a revised version. The Librarian’s Copyright Litany Remembering that copyright’s constitutional purpose is to stimulate creation for the benefit of the public; and recognizing that in its current formulation (and many possible…
