Re: Peggy Hoon on licenses

[julie@ohiolink.edu]

Actual URL:

http://www-apps.umuc.edu/blog/collectanea/2011/02/running-in-circles-copyright-l.html

(last letter before ".html" is a small ell, rather than a one.

I've actually been able to get rid of most of these things by 
referring to state law, but you're right, it sure would be nice 
if we didn't have to...


Julie C. Blake
Assistant Director for Electronic Licensing, OhioLINK
julie@ohiolink.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