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Copyright: Walking The Tightrope, Bethany Kenyon, Elizabeth Dyer
Copyright: Walking The Tightrope, Bethany Kenyon, Elizabeth Dyer
Library Services Faculty Posters
Librarians often struggle with copyright questions from patrons. After winning a copyright consultation with copyright specialist Barbara Ingrassia during the 2015 North Atlantic Health Sciences Libraries (NAHSL) Scholarship Raffle, UNE librarians decided it was high time to conquer our fears and create a tool to help with the balancing act that is Fair Use. This poster describes the development and promotion of a Fair Use Checklist.
The End Of Ownership: Personal Property In The Digital Economy, Aaron Perzanowski, Jason Schultz
The End Of Ownership: Personal Property In The Digital Economy, Aaron Perzanowski, Jason Schultz
Books
An argument for retaining the notion of personal property in the products we “buy” in the digital marketplace.
The open access edition of this book was made possible by generous funding from Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.
If you buy a book at the bookstore, you own it. You can take it home, scribble in the margins, put in on the shelf, lend it to a friend, sell it at a garage sale. But is the same thing true for the ebooks or other digital goods you buy? Retailers and copyright holders argue that …
Intellectual Property And Related Rights In Climate Data, Michael W. Carroll
Intellectual Property And Related Rights In Climate Data, Michael W. Carroll
Contributions to Books
This chapter focuses on the ways in which intellectual property law can act as a barrier to data sharing. Intellectual property laws supply exclusive rights that can enable a researcher, employer or funder to ‘own’ data; they can then bring legal claims against persons who access or reuse data without permission. Some of these rights attach automatically to data, data sets, or databases, and thus must be managed properly to enable robust data sharing in climate science. Other rights are created by contract, and the policies around such privately created rights must be understood and analyzed. This chapter briefly describes …