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UK: Digital Economy Bill (Now Before Parliament) Will Address Orphan Works
News | www.resourceshelf.com | 1 hour 43 minutes ago
From a British Library News Release:The British Library has welcomed the commitment to address orphan works legislation announced in todays Digital Economy Bill. As one of the UKs leading research institutions, the Library has long argued that educators and researchers will profit
From PW: Grimmelmann on Google Settlement's Rights and Wrongs
News | www.libraryjournal.com | 22 hours ago
New York Law School professor James Grimmelmann, whose made a name as a thoughtful and timely scholarly observer of the Google Book Search settlement (via his Laboratorium blog and other writings), in this week's Publishers Weekly writes about "what's right, what's wrong, what's left to do.
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6708443.html?nid=3310
Beavis and Butthead Go to the Discovery Layer
Blog | libraryjuicepress.com | Nov 22, 2009
Uhhh Hey Beavis. This scholarly recommender service wants to know how I rate this article.
Why I voted Yes on the SLA name change
Blog | www.jasoneiseman.com | Nov 19, 2009
A few years ago I was asked to speak at an Enterprise Information Management conference in San Francisco. It was very exciting, the first time I had been asked to speak somewhere. I was slated to speak on the second day, but after attending the first day of sessions I was very nervous. It became
MLA successfully urged cultural institutions to support learning movement
News | www.iwr.co.uk | Nov 17, 2009
More than 3,000 museums, libraries and archives, after receiving encouragement from the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) have signed the "learning revolution" pledge
http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2253289/mla-successfully-urged-cultural
Two Upcoming ISO Ballots
Blog | litablog.org | Nov 16, 2009
Cindy Hepfer, ALA’s Voting Representative to NISO, has notified us of two new items coming up for ballot early in the New Year.The first is for ISO/DIS 27729, International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI). The ISNI “… specifies the International Standard name identifier (ISNI) for the
Library Copyright Alliance releases issue briefs on international copyright and libraries
News | www.wo.ala.org | Nov 16, 2009
The Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) announces a new series of issue briefs on current topics relating to international copyright and libraries. Written by Janice Pilch, Association of Research Libraries visiting program officer on international copyright and LCA international copyright advocate,
ACTA - Quite possibly the biggest threat to your internet to date.
Blog | distlib.blogs.com | Nov 13, 2009
There's been a lot of traffic about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in the last week or so, but not nearly enough. In a nutshell, instead of proposing legislation through transparent and traditional channels (Congress, Parliament, etc), member countries seem...
GoogleBS gets another extension
News | mhpbooks.com | Nov 10, 2009
Google, and its co-conspirators in the Google Book Settlement deal the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers have been given yet another extension by Judge Denny Chin in their attempt to render the settlement legal. According to a report on Wired, the group now
Early English Laws
Blog | xrefer.blogspot.com | Nov 6, 2009
Early English Laws is a project to publish online and in print new editions and translations of all English legal codes, edicts, and treatises produced up to the time of Magna Carta, 1215<img width="1"
