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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Publishers’ reply brief in Hachette v. Internet Archive: First Impressions
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…
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…
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,…