some copyright visualization

Posted in books | Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 | 2 Comments » Trackback
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With the Google Books settlement coming up, a lot of people have been talking about copyright. I think this is generally speaking a really good thing. Here are some useful visualizations that may help you get your head around it.

- From the Financial Times is this article about what the Google business model could mean for out of print books and orphan works. According to their graphic [above] there are a lot of books wiht unclear status in US libraries that we should be concerned about.
- From ALA’s Copyright Advisory Network (a project of the Office of Information and Technology policy) comes a few helpful tools for looking at copyright as it pertains to libraries

2 Responses to “some copyright visualization”

  1. Cory Says:
    August 19th, 2009 at 11:36

    Love this post – thanks. I’m not working as a librarian, and yet it makes me happy that many former colleagues still inquire re: copyright.

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