Intellectual Property
Ownership of digital content, rights of access, and mechanisms for regulating the use of digital content have played a major role in the development of digital libraries. Copyright laws of most countries were not written to take into account the existence of digital information on the Internet. The Open Access movement has encouraged authors, especially those in the research and education communities, to license their works in a way that encourages their broad use. Digital rights management systems are put in place to protect content from use beyond those specifically licensed to a user or group. This is a contentious area and CNI provides a forum for airing views and principles and for better understanding the way forward.
Recent Publications/Reports/Presentations by CNI Staff
Update on Leadership Transition and Survey of Developments, Trends, and Prospects (January '25)Speaker: Clifford Lynch View more information View video
Open Access, Open Scholarship, and Machine Learning: A Panel and Community Conversation (February '24)
Speakers: Heather Sardis
Rachael Samberg
Richard Sever
Moderator: Clifford Lynch View more information View video
From Exascale to AI: Developments & Implications for the Information Landscape (January '24)
Speaker: Clifford Lynch View more information View video
International Tensions and “Science Nationalism” in a Networked World: Strategies and Implications (January '21)
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UNT Open Access Symposium, Closing Remarks (May '10)
Speaker: Clifford A. Lynch View more information View video
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Recent Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions from CNI Meetings
Federal Cost Recovery Policy Changes: Implications and Opportunities for Library Support of Sponsored Research (November '25)
Tim McGeary, Duke University
Gil Tran, Attain Partners
Cynthia Hudson Vitale, Johns Hopkins University
Hilary Craiglow, Attain Partners
Revisiting the Library Copyright Alliance Principles on Artificial Intelligence and Copyright (November '25)
Katherine Klosek, Association of Research Libraries
Marjory Blumenthal, American Library Association
Safeguarding Audiovisual Data (March '25)
Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive
Peter Kaufman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David Rowntree, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Why Open Library Metadata? (March '25)
Tom Cramer, Stanford University
Rochelle Lundy, Stanford University
Simeon Warner, Cornell University
Update on Leadership Transition and Survey of Developments, Trends, and Prospects (January '25)
Speaker: Clifford Lynch
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Recent Videos
Findings from a Workshop on Sustaining Open Source Software in the Research Enterprise (January '26)Chelsea McCracken, Ithaka S+R View more information
What’s Missing in Artificial Intelligence Ethics Literature (August '25)
Adam Berkowitz, The University of Alabama View more information
The Role of Research Software and Addressing Its Challenges (January '25)
Daniel S. Katz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign View more information
Update on Leadership Transition and Survey of Developments, Trends, and Prospects (January '25)
Speaker: Clifford Lynch View more information View video
Open Access, Open Scholarship, and Machine Learning: A Panel and Community Conversation (February '24)
Speakers: Heather Sardis
Rachael Samberg
Richard Sever
Moderator: Clifford Lynch View more information View video
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