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  The University of Michigan Launches Project to Identify Orphan Works

  1110 readersThe University of Michigan Library’s Copyright Office announced a new project yesterday. This project is sponsored by the Haithi Trust, a coalition 50 colleges and university that are working to maintian  a digital archive of important cultural heri...

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  Colleges Lock Books and Images Away From Scholars

  1094 readersThe Chronicle for Higher Education reports on a major casualty to the copyright and orphan works confusion: Academia.  Colleges with incredible treasure-troves of digital material, mostly photographs and recordings, but books as well, are afraid of making those materials available to scholars. Wide online access is curtailed, in part because they contain “orphan works,” whose

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  Colleges Lock Books and Images Away From Scholars

  1224 readersThe Chronicle for Higher Education reports on a major casualty to the copyright and orphan works confusion: Academia.  Colleges with incredible treasure-troves of digital material, mostly photographs and recordings, but books as well, are afraid of making those materials available to scholars. Wide online access is curtailed, in part because they contain “orphan works,” whose

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  With Google Settlement in Limbo, Universities Press Ahead With Research on Digitized Books

  1850 readersFrom a Chronicle of Higher Ed. Report by Marc Perry: With the Google project in legal limbo, Indiana University and the University of Illinois are moving forward with plans to set up a similar research center [HathiTrust Research Center for Computational Access to Archives] built around the archive maintained by the HathiTrust Digital Library, which

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  The library on a massive scale – HathiTrust

  759 readers Interesting article in Campus Technology about the HathiTrust: What do you get when you combine the collections from 60 major research institutions into a single, digitized library? A comprehensive collection, of course, but also a major headache for the people who have to collect, organize, preserve, and publish the information in a

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  Highlights From HathiTrust Activities Update (June 2012)

  868 readersThe latest HathiTrust Update (June 2012) is now online. Here are a few highlights. You can access the complete issue here. HathiTrust has updated its bibliographic metadata specifications and minimum bibliographic metadata requirements in preparation for moving to Zephir (under development by California Digital Library) as the bibliographic metadata management system for HathiTrust. The requirements

• New White Paper: “Orphan Works: Definitional Issues”

  1054 readersTitle: “Orphan Works: Definitional Issues” Author: David Robert Hansen (University of California, Berkeley – School of Law) Source: Berkeley Digital Library Copyright Project White Paper No. 1 (via SSRN) Abstract: This paper outlines responses to two definitional questions that arise in the context of orphan works: (1) exactly what is the “orphan works” problem?, and (2) what is the size

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  “The Orphan Wars” by James Grimmelmann

  489 readers “The Orphan Wars” appears in the new issue of EDUCAUSE Review. It was written by Professor James Grimmelmann, New York Law School. “Orphan books”—books that are in copyright but whose copyright owners can’t be found—have been in the news lately, thanks to lawsuits over Google’s plan to scan a copy of every book ever published. What

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  “The Orphan Wars” by James Grimmelmann

  528 readers “The Orphan Wars” appears in the new issue of EDUCAUSE Review. It was written by Professor James Grimmelmann, New York Law School. “Orphan books”—books that are in copyright but whose copyright owners can’t be found—have been in the news lately, thanks to lawsuits over Google’s plan to scan a copy of every book ever published. What

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  Four universities join “orphan works” effort

  1583 readers From Inside Higher Ed: Cornell, Duke, Emory and Johns Hopkins University are the latest to make digitized “orphan works” — those whose copyright holders are not known or reachable — in their collections available to students, faculty, and authorized users on their campuses. They join the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin,