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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Matt Barrow

Matt Barrow

Stanford University Copyright and Fair Use Overview - 2 views

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    This overview of copyright law and the application of fair use discusses the deciding factors as they apply to different types of copyrighted work.
Matt Barrow

Why Google is Right and the Author's Guild is Wrong on Book Scanning - 2 views

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    Matthew Ingram discusses the recent ruling on the Author's Guild's copyright infringement lawsuit. The author points out the decisive nature of the ruling, and goes on to explain the reasons that the project clearly falls under the protection of fair use. He argues that this ruling follows the intent of copyright law, to promote research and knowledge.
Matt Barrow

Judge Says Fair Use Protect Universities in Book Scanning Project - 1 views

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    This article gives a brief overview of the environment surrounding the HathiTrust litigation, and gives some added insight to the cases in which Google has been involved. It specifically notes Google's exclusion from the Orphan Works project, citing Judge Denny Chin's assertion that private parties should not be allowed to "establish a mechanism for exploiting unclaimed books.
Matt Barrow

Copyright Review Management System - IMLS National Leadership Grant - 2 views

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    This program is used by the HathiTrust Digital Library to seek out "orphan works" that have no apparent benefactors, and make them available to the general public. This project's noble purposes have been called into question by organizations like the Authors Guild, who argue that it often fails to find those who are due compensation.
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University of Michigan Project to Identify Orphan Works in HathiTrust Collection - 2 views

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    This article presents the Orphan Works project near its inception. It identifies the nature of the problem to be the sheer size of the project's scope, which claims about 73% of the HathiTrust's collection to be eligible for fair use as soon as they are proven to be orphan works.
Matt Barrow

ARL Resource Packet on Orphan Works: Legal and Policy Issues for Research Libraries - 0 views

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    This extensive resource packet provides detailed information regarding the HathiTrust lawsuit. The writer is in favor of the defendants, arguing in various ways the lawfulness and usefuleness of the project.
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Association of Research Libraries - 0 views

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    The ARL is a nonprofit organization of 125 research entities in the US and Canada. The Association promotes the advancement of its members in various ways, but focuses on ideals often associated with the digital humanities, such as intellectual freedom, scholarly communication, and collaboration.
Matt Barrow

HathiTrust Orphan Works Project Grows as University of California, Others Join Up - 1 views

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    Another early announcement of the HathiTrust's Orphan Works initiative, this article discusses the pros and cons of the project, and the potential changes that it may bring. The author speculates on possible benefits while pointing to the important decisions that will have to be made regarding copyrights.
Matt Barrow

"Orphan Works" Unresolved in HathiTrust Ruling - 2 views

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    This statement from the Authors Guild explains their disagreement with the ruling in favor of the HathiTrust Digital Library. Accusing the project of carelessness in searching for the copyright-holders of "orphan works," the article expresses disappointment in the lack of action taken by the courts.
Matt Barrow

Copyright Clash: Authors Guild and Others Sue HathiTrust and Five Universities - 2 views

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    This article is an early announcement of the Authors Guild's lawsuit against the HathiTrust Digital Library. It explains the accusations of copyright infringement from the Authors Guild, who seek the complete halt of the HathiTrust's reproduction and distribution of digitized works, not limited to the Orphan Works project.
Matt Barrow

Elsevier Debuts Peer Review Transparency Pilot - 2 views

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    The author explores a potential new solution to peer review in the the work of scientific journal publisher Elsevier. The director of this project argues that it encourages quality reviews while acknowledging the reviewer's contribution by allowing them to choose whether or not to remain anonymous.
Matt Barrow

Steering an Elephant | Peer to Peer Review - 2 views

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    This article helps to give a general overview of the current state of fair use, specifically with regards to the HathiTrust project. The author is hopeful, giving the project's Orphan Works undertaking more credit than the Authors Guild. He argues that the meticulous nature of the work being done is promising, and may lead to solutions to the many and various problems raised by the public domain.
Matt Barrow

Judge's Ruling a Win for Fair Use in Authors Guild v. HathiTrust Case - 0 views

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    This article reports on the ruling by Harold Baer, Jr. which held that the HathiTrust's mass digitization is fair use. The judge explained in his opinion that the HDL's project is not only fair use in and of itself, but that its potential for text mining and the facilitation of access for print-disabled persons are transformative in nature, and can serve an entirely different purpose than the original works.
Matt Barrow

Access Should Be Blind - 1 views

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    This editorial takes a more personal view of the HathiTrust verdict, and its application to the blind and print-disabled. The author gives personal accounts of genius he has witnessed in this community, explaining his excitement that they will now have access to millions of works rather than small collections.
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HathiTrust Verdict Could Transform University Access for the Blind - 1 views

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    This is article on the HathiTrust verdict explains the extent to which the verdict will affect the use of digitized materials in university libraries. The verdict held that digitizing works for the purpose of providing access to the blind and print-disabled is not only fair, but transformative use. This will allows universities to not only maintain digitized texts for this audience, but to share them among each other, reducing wait times for materials from months to minutes.
Matt Barrow

HathiTrust Digital Library - 2 views

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    The HathiTrust Digital Library is a partnership of research institutions and libraries working to securely preserve historical collections to be accesible long into the future. These collections are open access, and include a wide spectrum of cultures across a variety of different time periods. The partnership has been recently engaged in legal disputes regarding alleged copyright infringement in their Orphan Works Project. In addition to basic access to many of the collections, the HDL offers search functions within the documents that allow for new uses of the texts, such as text mining.
Matt Barrow

Wikipedia vs. Encyclopaedia Britannica for Digital Research - 0 views

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    This is a follow-up article to a post Cohen wrote on Wikipedia and its relation to Google and Yahoo. In this post, he discusses the validity of Wikipedia as a tool to create text profiles of subjects for search engines.
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The Wikipedia Story That's Being Missed - 0 views

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    This Article discusses the interests that Google and Yahoo have in Wikipedia. The story that Cohen claimsis being missed is the generosity exhibited towards Wikipedia by these two corporations with little or no apparent compensation. He then explains the benefits that Wkipedia can offer to the field of data mining.
Matt Barrow

Digital Ephemera and the Calculus of Importance - 0 views

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    This blog post by Dan Cohen discusses the collection of digital ephemera, such as twitter posts, and its legitimate relevance to historical analysis. Cohen leans towards supporting the Library of Congress in their decision to take historical artifacts like this seriously, citing examples of thankful historians rejoicing over the preservation of what was thought to be scrap paper. He then goes on to discuss the problem in terms of costs, noting the relatively cheep nature of the digital texts.
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The Universal Digital Library - 0 views

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    This online digital library, also called the "Million Book Collection," provides free online access to a searchable archive of digitized books. The website seeks to make digitally preserved and freely available "all the significant literary, artistic, and scientific works of mankind." This enormous undertaking is supported by Carnegie Mellon University and an extensive list of contributors from around the world.
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