Heard people talking on Twitter about Dorothea Salo’s presentation “I own copyright, so I pwn you!”at the Special Libraries Association conference this week, and was sorry to miss it. Now that I’ve seen her slides, I’m even MORE sorry. I particularly liked her “LESSONS” slides, which bring up some of…
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Comment approval from now on, sorry!
The spam-bots have gotten too active on this blog, and too clever at “sounding” like actual people. Unfortunately, that means I’m going to have to turn on comment moderation. All are still very much welcome to comment, but only comments associated with a University of Minnesota user ID will appear…
Georgia State update
Trial in the Georgia State case wrapped on Tuesday, but don’t expect a ruling until quite a bit later in the summer. It’s looking less and less likely that the “nightmare scenario” (see my own post, and Kevin Smith’s) will come to pass (at least in the short run), since…
How I Talk About Fair Use – Intro & “Breathing Space”
When & why I Talk About Fair Use “How do we/I know what we/I can and cannot do with other people’s stuff?” is one of the primary things I’m asked to talk about in trainings and other outreach and education efforts. Often, what people think they really want to know…
Why non-academics should be following the Georgia State U case
This post will be cross-posted at TechDirt at some point. Supposedly. Update, 6/9/11 – has been posted Update, 6/9/11: Check out the latest on the GSU case. Trial is currently under way in a copyright suit against Georgia State University brought by a number of academic publishers (and funded by…