Dave Hansen and Kyle K. Courtney jointly authored this post. They are also the authors of a White Paper on Controlled Digital Lending of Library Books. We are not, as the Publishers claim in their brief on page 13, a “cadre of boosters.” We wrote the paper independently as part of our…
Category: copyright
Libraries Do Not Need Permission To Lend Books: Fair Use, First Sale, and the Fallacy of Licensing Culture
*The opinions and scholarship communicated on this website are the author’s own, expressed in his personal capacity.* Licensing culture is out of control. This has never been clearer than during this time when hundreds of millions of books and media that were purchased by libraries, archives, and other cultural intuitions…
Controlled Digital Lending of Library Books
This post is co-authored by Dave Hansen and Kyle K. Courtney We’re very pleased to announce the release of two documents that we believe have the potential to help greatly expand digital access to print library collections by helping libraries do online what we have always done in print: lend…
Critical EU Copyright Vote This Week: Is the Internet Doomed?
I have been watching the EU copyright drama as of late, and finally, I am nervous enough to write about it. If you want the 3-sentence summary of the background, here it is: There is a proposed new EU Copyright Directive, which will attempt to update the previous Directive from…
3rd Annual Fair Use Week
I am delighted to announce the 3rd Annual Fair Use Week! This is an opportunity for the community to celebrate the fair use doctrine, which “facilitate[s] balance in copyright law, promoting further progress and accommodating freedom of speech and expression.” When I launched the “beta” Fair Use Week in 2014, it…
The Copyright Office and the Orphan Works Report: Top Three Problems
I have been quiet on this blog for a while now. Someone recently told me at ALA Annual (in San Francisco) that I should be writing down and saving some of my “scorch the earth” type copyright analysis (read: rant?). I decided yes, you are right. And yes, I should…
Launching the 2nd Annual Fair Use Week
I am honored and delighted to celebrate the 2nd Annual Fair Use Week! What started as an idea generated from supporters of ARL’s Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries, launched as my “beta-test Fair Use Week” here at Harvard last year, has now become…
Open Access at Harvard: An Evening with Peter Suber and Kyle Courtney | Harvard Alumni Association
This summer I had the pleasure of co-presenting to a group of Harvard alums, at the invitation of the Harvard Alumni Association. If you are interested in the “Top 5 Things” I am advocating for including my work with libraries, copyright law, MOOC’s, orphan works, digital first sale, and open access,…
Library Launches Copyright First Responders Program
Below is the latest from Harvard Library communication on my beta program for copyright and libraries. I developed the Copyright First Responders program with one thing in mind: Librarians should be the front lines of copyright expertise. A brief survey I did a few years ago revealed that the Library…
One More MOOC Post: Copyright, Licensing, and the Publishers
Since it is the Year of the MOOC (or was that last year?) I figured I’d post my thoughts and strategies on working with publishers to grant MOOC’s what they often need: textbooks, books, readings, etc. Much of classroom pedagogy relies on the read & lecture model. MOOCs have made…