“What Do You Know About Copyright?”

‘brary web diva conducted a survey on librarians’ views about their knowledge on copyright. Interesting results. I feel rather silly, but it reallt didn’t occur to me before that in addition to the public copiers, the public scanners and computers with disc drives or USB ports should carry a copyright notice posted near them. (D’oh!) [...]

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Lawrence Lessig on creative freedom and copyright

A TED video of Lessig’s speech (ca. 20 min) found via the Information Research blog. As the TED site puts it,
The Net’s most adored lawyer brings together John Philip Sousa, celestial copyrights, and the “ASCAP cartel” to build a case for creative freedom. He pins down the key shortcomings of our dusty, pre-digital intellectual property [...]

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