Thursday, 26 May 2011
Are you a shusher????
Thursday, 19 May 2011
The Sky's the Limit
Our next 'Library on Tour' destination perhaps???
I have read a couple of articles about this new library, but this one has lots of photos! I'm not sure what to think, is this the way to go with libraries? However it is a beautiful building. Story and photos courtesy of the Chicago Sun Times.
I have read a couple of articles about this new library, but this one has lots of photos! I'm not sure what to think, is this the way to go with libraries? However it is a beautiful building. Story and photos courtesy of the Chicago Sun Times.
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Monday, 16 May 2011
...on copyright.
All change?
The whole area of Copyright and Digital Rights Management is such a minefield, Richard Bruton was in the news last week announcing a major review of Irish Copyright Law, quite a few blogs reported on it, but they mostly say the same thing as Business World.
There is also a copyright case going to trial today in the USA involving Cambridge University Press and Georgia State University's e-reserve practices, see Publisher Weekly and American Association of Law Libraries
The whole area of Copyright and Digital Rights Management is such a minefield, Richard Bruton was in the news last week announcing a major review of Irish Copyright Law, quite a few blogs reported on it, but they mostly say the same thing as Business World.
There is also a copyright case going to trial today in the USA involving Cambridge University Press and Georgia State University's e-reserve practices, see Publisher Weekly and American Association of Law Libraries
Saturday, 14 May 2011
Friday/Thing 13, unlucky for some!
I did actually compose a post about Copyright and Creative Commons (CC), but Blogger seem to have lost it somewhere in the virtual world. Blogger tweeted that they were restoring all the posts that they temporarily removed - but I'm still waiting, so I will try and put it all together again.
Copyright is one of those murky areas that is confusing and massively open to interpretation/misinterpretation, all you can really do (unless you really know your copyright stuff) is play it safe and always err of the side of caution.
Copyright is an automatic protection, so once you have put pen to paper, post to blog, music to tape, your rights are protected, you do not have to apply for a licence. Applying a CC licence to your work does not change this. It is not a case of choosing a traditional Copyright licence, or choosing a CC licence.
I feel it is important to point out that CC does not replace Copyright Law, it tries to allow individual authors/creators to give certain permissions of use. Instead of telling you what you can't do, CC tries to tell you what you can do. CC are trying to work within the Copyright law to make it easier for authors to share their work and for the users to use it - see I told you it was all very confusing!!
Having said all that, I think anything that actually clarifies what you can use and how you can use it in the online world is badly needed, in theory everything on the web is protected by copyright, even if you cannot find an author/creator/designer of an image/page/website - they are protected, and you cannot assume that it is alright to copy, print or re-use without consent. Just because there is a print button on the page do not assume you have the right to print (murky and murkier I know!).
Check out CC's draft Irish licence here.
Copyright is one of those murky areas that is confusing and massively open to interpretation/misinterpretation, all you can really do (unless you really know your copyright stuff) is play it safe and always err of the side of caution.
Copyright is an automatic protection, so once you have put pen to paper, post to blog, music to tape, your rights are protected, you do not have to apply for a licence. Applying a CC licence to your work does not change this. It is not a case of choosing a traditional Copyright licence, or choosing a CC licence.
I feel it is important to point out that CC does not replace Copyright Law, it tries to allow individual authors/creators to give certain permissions of use. Instead of telling you what you can't do, CC tries to tell you what you can do. CC are trying to work within the Copyright law to make it easier for authors to share their work and for the users to use it - see I told you it was all very confusing!!
Having said all that, I think anything that actually clarifies what you can use and how you can use it in the online world is badly needed, in theory everything on the web is protected by copyright, even if you cannot find an author/creator/designer of an image/page/website - they are protected, and you cannot assume that it is alright to copy, print or re-use without consent. Just because there is a print button on the page do not assume you have the right to print (murky and murkier I know!).
Check out CC's draft Irish licence here.
Friday, 13 May 2011
Google-Blogger-Crash
Dear Google,
I want the absolutely inspirational post that I composed about Creative Commons and Copyright back now. It was posted on Thursday 12th May. I want it back because it was extraordinarily well written, awesome, incredible, insightful etc...and mainly because I can't remember what I wrote!!!!!
I want the absolutely inspirational post that I composed about Creative Commons and Copyright back now. It was posted on Thursday 12th May. I want it back because it was extraordinarily well written, awesome, incredible, insightful etc...and mainly because I can't remember what I wrote!!!!!
Thursday, 12 May 2011
The beginning of the end...of the first 13 things
This post was lost in virtual space and has only just re-appeared (Sunday 15th May).
Since signing up to LibraryThing I have decided to set myself a summer project and catalogue all of my books at home. I have added a few books already and actually written a couple of reviews, which I have never done before so they may not be very good! I have set up links to both Facebook and Twitter as well, nothing too complicated all in all. I'm sure I have more than 200 books at home, which is the limit for free access, but at $25 for life, it doesn't seem that expensive.
I'm sure there is a way to add DVD's and CD's as well, but trying that out is for a rainy day!
I'm sure there is a way to add DVD's and CD's as well, but trying that out is for a rainy day!
Library Anywhere looks great, but will it work with Talis Prism? LibraryThing also openly publish their Library Anywhere prices which is highly unusual in the library world!
Wednesday, 11 May 2011
Articles of interest - or not...
Just came across this interesting little article in my google reader list.
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User beware - always verify your information!
User beware - always verify your information!
Monday, 9 May 2011
Catch up time.
Friday, 6 May 2011
Friday Fun
We have all felt like this at some point...go on admit it! Warning: Contains flashing images.
Thursday, 5 May 2011
Facebook, privacy and all that...
Wednesday, 4 May 2011
Week 6 in the BBL
Let's hope LibraryThing organises my books better than I do, the shelves are stacked two books deep at least!!! Oh and the pile beside the bed, and in the spare room...
I'm so ashamed...
Is there any hope for me?
I'm so ashamed...
Is there any hope for me?
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