Peggy Hoon on licenses

["Peter B. Hirtle" <pbh6@cornell.edu>]

Peggy Hoon has an important post on the current state of library 
licensing at 
http://www-apps.umuc.edu/blog/collectanea/2011/02/running-in-circles-copyright-1.html. 
Entitled "Running In Circles: Copyright, Licensing, and the 
Educational Environment," Hoon notes that in spite of decades of 
work, "libraries are still slogging through, license by license, 
the same terms, over and over, that are either legally prohibited 
or reflect an unrealistic view of a university library 
environment."  She concludes that "there simply has to be a 
better way," and argues that we need to try again to create "a 
standard reality-based library license."

Peter B. Hirtle
Senior Policy Advisor
Digital Scholarship Services
Cornell University Library
2B53 Kroch Library
Ithaca, NY  14853
peter.hirtle@cornell.edu