Yesterday we added a thought to the Aug 11th Inducing Unintended Consequences for Libraries posting by Newton Minow and Mary Minow:
Even if the law were to clarify that a library had no responsibility to audit patron use, a question still remains if a library discovers a patron downloading copyrighted material. Should the librarian question the patron? Report the patron to the copyright owner? Will patrons continue to frequent the library if librarians turn into copyright police?
For musings on the mercurial nature of blog entries and the ease that we blog writers have in changing older entries, see post directly below.
Who are the copyright police? If I see and want to report a copyright infingment say to Disney who do I call??? How do I contact these police??
Posted by: Sandra | April 04, 2006 at 05:33 PM