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"Cornish's Copyright, the standard work in its field, is indispensable for all librarians and information professionals looking for solutions to their copyright problems."

On August 30th, 1982, 29 years ago, 16-year old V. A. Shiva copyrighted "EMAIL" along with the GUI we still use today with the fields "To: From: Cc: Bcc: Subject: Reply, Reply All, Forward" and Email body and attachment.

"This master class will explore the emerging role of the "Content Curator" and how it relates to the information profession. Topics covered will include: * Search techniques and aggregation tools to find and filter relevant information. * Tips and techniques for organising and categorising information. * How to validate trusted information sources. * Licencing and copyright requirements for re-published information. * Adding value &context to curated content through storytelling techniques * An introduction to a selection of content curation tools. * An introduction to tools that support high-impact and content-relevant newsletters."

"In keeping with its ambition to become the world's most open institution of its kind, the British Library has released over a million public domain illustrations and other images to the public through Flickr for anyone to reuse, remix or repurpose. So far, these images, which range from Restoration-era cartoons to colonial explorers' early photographs, have been used on rugs, album covers, gift tags, a mapping project, and an art installation at the Burning Man festival in Nevada, among other things."

Useful reference links to use of Creative Commons