昨天，电子前沿基金会(EFF)提交了一份动议，要求驳回四家大型出版商对互联网档案馆(IA)提起的诉讼，该诉讼威胁到了IA的受控数字借贷(CDL)项目。卡塔尔vs葡萄牙分析知识共享完全支持这一动议。这是为什么。The Internet Archive is an American non-profit library preserving and giving access …Read More“CC Supports Internet Archive’s Efforts to Ensure Public Access to Books”
Did you know that nearly 800 million adults and young people lack basic literacy skills? Supporting the worldwide teaching of these vital skills will help build a more equal society, but the COVID-19 crisis has disrupted education in nearly every country. We, therefore, face even greater inequalities and a more urgent need to deliver quality …Read More“Creative Commons Celebrates International Literacy Day”
It’s time to celebrate the Web We Want / CC Colombia / CC BY-SA This Friday, School of Open and Creative Commons affiliates in Colombia are throwing a celebration of the Web We Want that will highlight open licensing, copyright reform, and free culture. The event takes place as part of the Creative Commons Film …Read More“CC Colombia and School of Open celebrate the Web We Want”
Read about this course in Spanish on the CC Uruguay blog. ABC of Copyright for Librarians in Latin America, or ABC del derecho de autor para bibliotecarios de América Latina, is a free, online course that launches today as part of the School of Open. This Spanish language course seeks to help librarians and library …Read More“Making the Case for Libraries in Latin America: A New School of Open Course”
CC0 has been getting lots of love in the last couple months in the realm of data, specifically GLAM data (GLAM as in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums). The national libraries of Spain and Germany have released their bibliographic data using the CC0 public domain dedication tool. For those of you who don’t know what that …Read More“National Libraries and a Museum open up their data using CC0”
Following the exciting news of Europeana’s new data exchange agreement, which authorizes Europeana to release the metadata for millions of cultural works into the public domain using the CC0 public domain dedication, the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL) voted to support the agreement in a meeting last week at the Royal Library of Denmark. …Read More“Europe's national librarians support opening up their data via CC0”
上周我们在推特上说科隆的图书馆在CC0下发布了540万份书目记录。这是一个巨大的消息，因为“图书馆已经参与开放获取运动很长时间了。”From the press release, Rolf Thiele, deputy director of the USB Cologne, states: “Libraries appreciate the Open Access movement because they themselves …Read More“Cologne-based libraries release 5.4 million bibliographic records via CC0”
Last year, I blogged about the Copyright Advisory Network‘s nifty digital copyright slider, a tool that helps you tell whether a work is still copyrighted or whether it’s in the public domain. Since then, the OITP at ALA (Office for Information Technology Policy of the American Library Association) has developed and published two new tools: …Read More“Copyright tools”
Steps towards openness were taken yesterday by the University of Oregon Library, as its faculty unanimously passed a resolution requiring all library faculty-authored scholarly articles to be licensed CC BY-NC-ND (thanks to Peter Suber of Open Access News). Although NC-ND does not allow derivations (which may include translations and other adaptations) of the articles, library …Read More“U of Oregon Library faculty research to become more open”
One of the benefits of public domain books is that once they are scanned and made available on the Internet, they are then available for anyone, including other organizations, to use and reuse in other contexts and sites. The Prospector Alliance, the union catalog of Colorado Alliance Research Libraries, did exactly this by enhancing the …Read More“Prospector Alliance reappropriates public domain materials”
