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"A quick introduction to copyright for faculty and staff who want to create Open Educational Resources."

Originally located at copyright-friendly on Wikispaces (http://copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com) - this site has moved to a LibGuides but still has a wealth of links for CC licenses and other useful copyright information

This site explains why people choose to illegally downloads, even if some people know that they are breaking the copyright law.

Interesting read as I'm guilty of illegally downloading/streaming TV and music. Very surprised to see that the rich are the ones who illegally download on a regular basis.

"I'd have to wait too long to see it on TV" is the reason I hear the most about when it comes to illegal downloading. Those people generally do make an effort to watch it when it does officially come out on TV though, to off-set their piracy. The way companies will show something in one country and then sit on it for five months before letting someone in another country watch it seems silly to me at this point, though. Yes digital piracy is illegal, but it seems to be getting to the point of the Prohibition Era in the United States: yes, it's illegal, but everyone's doing it anyway. I think somebody's going to need to change things up here, and it seems doubtful that the companies producing these shows can alter the cultural norms without a lot more work than it seems they're willing to put in.

Esta publicación tiene como objetivo principal el mostrar de forma fácil a nuestros lectores cuales son las licencias básicas de publicación en Internet, cómo entenderlas y aún mas importante: Cómo usarlas de forma adecuada con el objetivo de proteger adecuadamente nuestras creaciones literarias, artísticas y/o científicas.

Que bueno!

Hacia una La Declaración de Ginebra es un paso ingente hacia la creación de una ámplia coalición de personas, organizaciones y países 1 que piden que la comunidad internacional rediseñe los objetivos y los mecanismos para otorgar control monopolístico sobre los diferentes tipos de conocimiento.Ofrece muchas sugerencias concretas y constructivas acerca de cambios en los objetivos, políticas y prioridades de la OMPI, y aporta argumentos abundantes y certeros para rediseñar los tratos de copyright y patentes para que sirvan mejor al interés público de toda la humanidad.

Porqué si los monopolios están penados por la ley, y Microsoft pagó una multa, y google está por hacerlo, quizá youtube... ¿porqué no refrecar las leyes del copyright y penalizar la monopolización del conocimiento? Debería impulsarse, por ejemplo, editoriales de bajo costo para mayor acceso a los lectores, deberían de permitir esa clase de competencia, o recursos educativos accesibles respecto a la educación. Debería de ser accesible la información y la educación sobre la salud, formas de mejorar el estido de vida, la salud y bienestar emocional, y los conocimientos de diferente índole, no sólo invirtiendo dinero y tiempo es justo para obtener el acceso al conocimiento especializado, pero la apertura ¿cómo puede mediarse para que no genere problemas? En el sentido de que un profesionista y un no profesionista tengan el mismo conocimiento sobre una especialización, pero uno tiene título y otro no, se restan, para quienes invierten, oportunidades de empleo en su educación formal, y para quienes aprenden por su cuenta, se abren oportunidades y las empresas prefieren pagar menos a estas personas aún cuando no tienen preparación en un sistema educativo formal. Esto impacta en la sociedad, pues al menos en México sucede...

Debe ser algo para toda la América Latina hay mucha diferencia entre las regiones de nuestro continente!

SHERPA/RoMEO database of publishers' policies on copyright and self-archiving

Thank you for sharing. It is a valuable resource for researchers who want to publish their papers and also to librarians.

Open Library is an open project: the software is open, the data are open, the documentation is open. Whether you fix a typo, add a book, or write a widget--it's all welcome. Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive, and has been funded in part by a grant from the California State Library and the Kahle/Austin Foundation.

Very good and will be helpful to all

Welcome to Open Library! Looking for accessible books in the DAISY format? View our accessible book subject page, or search for accessible books.

an exciting comic book created by the Center for the Study of Public Domain (Duke University), that explores fair use, copyright, and public domain. It is important to note that the way they distribute the book is also amazingly open--they provide download of many formats to enable easy access and easy reuse.

A dissertation by Tobias Schönwetter which comprehensively covers and compares digitalization, copyright and fair dealing not only in South Africa but in USA, Europe, Uk and Australia

Realizing the value of sharing in digital world the open licenses.

Very useful information. it's going to be of key importance that people know about copyright now that we're all moving into an era of massive creativity being shared globally. Understanding copyright needs to be part of digital literacy.

On October 17, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and remanded a key fair-use ruling in a long-running case over digital course readings on college campuses. But while on the surface the decision is a legal victory for the plaintiff publishers, two major library associations say the ruling is in fact a win for libraries, and for a popular practice known as "e-reserves."

Very relevant for our academic librarians.

This recently published book, by a University of British Columbia journalism professor named Alfred Hermida, questions how the new culture of sharing and collaboration-and the pace of change that sharing enables-changes our lives. It's particularly interesting for us because it doesn't back away from the challenges that open access poses for us: how does being both creator and consumer change us? How does blurring the lines between these two change the way we think about the balance between copyright and the public good? Hermida doesn't tackle these last questions directly, but he provides a useful lens for thinking about our changing roles and how open knowledge and sharing need to reflect that. Considering the book's focus on sharing, it's somewhat ironic that it's not open access, but I highly recommend checking it out. It's received significant attention in the Canadian press and is exactly the kind of mainstream attention that can get conversations about open access started.

Not everything can be shared. Aside from the 14 reasons what makes people share knowledge is because they are trust each one with the knowledge that they will share will be beneficial to the receiver of the knowledge or learning. Knowledge is power when shared.

Most of materials available in libraries are copyrighted. On the other hand, it requires copying and digitizing these materials to enable research,...

Una de las características fundamentales, que ha permitido el crecimiento exponencial de la red mundial de información, es que ha sido una plataforma abierta, lo que ha dependido de tres factores esenciales: "1) unlimited links from any part of the Web to any other; 2) open technical standards as the basis for continued growth of innovation applications, and; 3) separation of network layers, enabling independent innovation for network transport, routing and information applications" (Berners Lee, 2007).

Published on Dec 30, 2012 Short programme, produced in the year 2000, on the emergence of a technology called Napster, the file sharing software application that revolutionised music distribution world-wide.

Note: We ve updated this post multiple times with additional material. Look for the updates below. A story on the German publishing industry web site boersenblatt.net (in German) reports that Netherlands-based Swets (Swets & Zeitlinger Group B.V.) is insolvent and has filed for bankruptcy. We ve reached out the company for comment.

Thanks very much for posting this, did not know about it.