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…
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…
New site, new friends
After an eternity in limbo, I am happy to launch this site parallel to some “nice press” about my work from the Library Journal. For those of you that do not know, Cheryl LaGuardia, Research Librarian extraordinaire, is also the columnist for the wildly popular Library Journal column (and aptly named) “Not Dead Yet.” She is an excellent colleague…