OR The Reports of CDL’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated by Kyle K. Courtney *The opinions and scholarship communicated on this website are my own, expressed in my personal capacity. I am a co-author of A White Paper on Controlled Digital Lending of Library Books. I am not as the Publishers…
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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…
COVID-19, Copyright, & Library Superpowers (Part III)
Zoom, Zoom, Zoom: Copyright and Face-to-Face TEACH-ing in a COVID-19 World by Brandon Butler, Kyle K. Courtney, and Tucker Taylor *The opinions expressed on this website are the co-authors’ own, expressed in their personal capacity. If this were legal advice, it would come with a bill.* ===== If you work…
COVID-19, Copyright, and Library Superpowers Part II
Exigent Circumstances and §108 or Don’t Stop Doc Del’ing (sung to the tune of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’”) ♫Giving copyright a whirl, ♪ ♪Livin’ in a COVID world ♬ ♫Skipped the midnight train and goin’ nowhere…. ♬ *CHORUS* ♪Don’t stop doc del’ing♫ ♫Fulfill what you’re receiving♪ ♪Serving all people ♫♪…
COVID-19, Copyright, & Library Superpowers (Part I)
Fair Use and Exigent Circumstances *The opinions and scholarship communicated on this website are the author’s own, expressed in his personal capacity.* If you work in any of the higher ed institutions that are preparing to move online – maybe your copyright world has exploded in a range of questions…
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…
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…
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…