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
UNT Open Access Symposium, Closing Remarks (May '10)Speaker: Clifford A. Lynch View more information View video
“Improving Access to Research Results” (October '06)
Author: Clifford A. Lynch View more information
“DRM & Higher Ed,” CIP Handbook (August '06)
Author: Clifford A. Lynch View more information
“Open Computation: Beyond Human-Reader-Centric Views of Scholarly Literatures” (August '06)
Author: Clifford A. Lynch View more information
“Copyright Law, Intellectual Property Policy, and Academic Culture,” CIP Handbook (August '06)
Author: Clifford A. Lynch View more information
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Recent Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions from CNI Meetings
Addressing the 20th Century Gap: Controlled Digital Lending by Libraries (December '18)
Chris Freeland, Internet Archive
Kyle K. Courtney, Harvard University
Terry Ehling, MIT Press
David Hansen, Duke University
Building Infrastructure and Services for Open Access to Research (December '18)
Jefferson Bailey, Internet Archive
Jason Priem, Impactstory
Joseph McArthur, SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)
Public Access to Research Data: Report from the AAU APLU Public Access Working Group Workshop (December '18)
Mary Lee Kennedy, Association of Research Libraries
Kacy Redd, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
Katie Steen, Association of American Universities
Tyler Walters, Virginia Polytechnic Institute And State University
Software Preservation Network: Advancing Best Practices (December '18)
Jessica Meyerson, Educopia Institute
Brandon Butler, University of Virginia
Open Data as a Service in Special Collections Libraries; or, Let’s Be Sure We’re Better Than Data Brokers (March '18)
Scott Ziegler, Louisiana State University
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Recent Videos
Text Data Mining (TDM) Research Using Copyrighted and Use-Limited Text Data Sets: Developing an Agenda to Support Scholarly Use (March '18)Beth Sandore Namachchivaya, University of Waterloo View more information
UNT Open Access Symposium, Closing Remarks (May '10)
Speaker: Clifford A. Lynch View more information View video
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