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It didn't take Rick Prelinger from the Internet Archives long to respond to my musings yesterday about the availability of the Open Content Alliance / Boston Public Library arrangements. A copy of the agreement has been posted. Thanks, Rick!
There are some interesting things in the agreement, which I will discuss at a later date.
I'm in Oxford right now, working on a manual on copyright and digitization for cultural heritage institutions. One of the advantages of being in a different country is that you get to read different newspapers, and things that you may have skimmed over at home leap out at you.
That happened to me as I was reading last Sunday's London Times. There was an article on the rather remarkable Espresso Book Machine: a self-contained print-on-demand system. Two things struck me in the article: first, that they were in negotiations with a major English bookseller to house the machines, and second, that they would be providing Open Content Alliance (OCA) digitized books for printing and sale.
So Peter Brantley over on the O'Reilly blog has an interesting reaction to yesterday's New York Times article on the latest rumblings from the Open Library/Open Content Alliance/Internet Archive people (OL for short). Peter's post is full of high ideals - and is one of the scariest things I have read in a long time. At least the way Peter describes it, the actions of the OL could threaten all ILL.
Have any readers had experience evaluating copyright and the use of VBrick or similar systems to stream movies into classrooms?
Thanks, Nick! Nick Moline at Justia just made the actual court documents in the RIAA trial available: http://news.justia.com/cases/239134/
Take a look here: http://news.justia.com/cases/239134/
Reprinted with permission:
Mary--Though I'd keep you updated on what I'm doing with our privacy policy at MCL related to 2.0. Recently added these two paragraphs:
Under Choice and Consent:
If we make a service available for your convenience that may in some way lessen our ability to protect the privacy of your personally identifiable information or the confidentiality of information about your use of library materials and services, we will: 1.) Provide you with a privacy warning regarding that service; and 2.) Make it possible for you to "opt in" or "opt out" of that service. (Here I was contemplating things like saved reading history in the ILS)Under Third Party Security
Some users may choose to take advantage of RSS feeds from the library catalog, public blogs, hold and overdue notices via e-mail or text message, and similar services that send personal information related to library use via public communication networks. These users must also be
aware that the library has limited ability to protect the privacy of this information once it is outside our control.Also, note that the change to the Oregon privacy exemption passed and was signed by the Governor:
Oregon Revised Statute 192.502 (22) exempts from disclosure under open records law:
The records of a library, including: (a) Circulation records, showing use of specific library material by a named person; (b) The name of a library patron together with the address or telephone number of the patron; and (c) The electronic mail address of a patron.
Multnomah County Library's privacy and confidentiality policies are in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.I did a privacy workshop a couple weeks ago for library managers in Washington County--I thought it went very well. I adapted the presentation from the PORTALS Privacy 2.0 workshop.
Hope all is well with you!
Cindy
Let's hear it for the SF Bay Area representatives! Mike Honda (D-CA) and Anna Eshoo (D-CA) are co-sponsors of legislation to create a Trust for digital education, my father and Larry Grossman's vision of the Digital Promise. The official title of the bill (H.R. 3631) is the "Revolutionizing Education Through Digital Investment Act of 2007".
The bill was introduced Sept. 20th by Congressmen Yarmuth (D-KY) and Regula (R-OH) along with Congressmen Kennedy (D-RI), Markey (D-MA), Honda (D-CA), to create a Trust Fund for digital projects. Others who have joined as cosponsors include Boucher (VA), Chandler (KY), Gordon (TN), and Sensenbrenner (WI). If this list includes your representative, thank him or her. If not, please ask your representative to join as a cosponsor.
This could really help libraries. The bill would create a Digital Trust to provide financing for research, development, and demonstration of advanced information technologies for lifelong learning...similar to the National Science Foundation model. Proposals for grants and contracts would generally be evaluated by peer review, as in the NSF grants.
The grants would go towards research (basic and applied), development and demonstrations of innovative digital learning and assessment, plus evaluation of the systems and programs to encourage widespread adoption.
Money would be awarded to libraries, museums, colleges and universities, public boradcasting entities and similar nonprofits - with or without private partners.
Public domain Here's an especially good provision -- if the majority of funding for a project comes from this Trust, the materials resulting (including research and development materials) must be freely available to the general public in a timely manner. There is an exemption, though, if the Board determines that the public will benefit significantly by the materials not being made available. Hopefully, that would rarely occur.
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