Dear colleagues, In addition to what Daniel Stuhlman so correctly states, the majority of the country from K through Graduate School is studying via long distance learning. It is classroom learning, sometimes listed as an exception to Copyright restrictions (not always but often enough), but the classroom of necessity, due to unusual circumstances, is at home and in the teacher's home. How is the country going to study at home, if the teachers and students do not have available a rich resource of already digitized materials to explore, browse and read?
Fruma Mohrer [email protected] On Tue, Mar 31, 2020, 1:33 PM Daniel Stuhlman via Hasafran < [email protected]> wrote: > I have long studied copyright issues. Copyright is an important right > granted by the constitution for the promotion of knowledge and science. It > was meant to give a limited monopoly to produce and sell publications. > Originally it was a commercial protection not intellectual property > protection. > The Internet Archive is lending e-books. It is doing what libraries all > over the world are doing. The loan period is two weeks. The justification > is while physical libraries are closed, millions of book sit unused on the > shelves. These books were bought and paid for. > > A long time ago libraries were allowed to lend books without violating > copyright laws. Libraries are an important market for the book trade and > scholarly publications. > > Copyright violations are very hard to enforce. I have found people who > stole my works. I found an article that out of 500 words, 490 were mine. > They would not even apologize or acknowledge that they stole my work. Since > the monetary loss was hard to prove, I could not afford to hire an > attorney. If they would have just asked permission, I would have been glad > to let them reprint my work. <end of rant> > > The Internet Archive is saving digital information that is part of our > historical record. They deserve our thanks and support. As librarians, we > want to catalog, preserve and disseminate knowledge. We should thank all > those people and organizations who help us in the task. > > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 7:33 AM Margo Gutstein via Hasafran < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello safranim, >> >> I hope you are all well and safe. While I am working from home, I am >> catching up on reading a lot of email that I often don't have time to go >> through. One of the things I receive is an email newsletter on copyright >> issues, and the today's issue included a whole section devoted to >> COVID-19. One of the articles was a blog post entitled "The Emergence of >> Copyright Looting." I had no idea what copyright looting could possibly >> be, so I read the post. It concerns the recent announcement by the >> Internet Archive that it was unilaterally granting itself “emergency” >> powers to allow unlimiting “borrowing” of any ebook from its corpus of over >> 1.4 million copyrighted titles without any restrictions on how many people >> can simultaneously “borrow” them. According to the author of the blog, the >> creator of the Internet Archive is using the current pandemic to give away >> copyrighted material without permission of the authors. >> >> I'm pretty sure I've seen items here on Hasafran about the Internet >> Archive and works that can be accessed there, so I am sharing the link to >> this blog post: >> https://copyrightalliance.org/ca_post/the-emergence-of-copyright-looting >> I would love to know what other AJL safranim think about this. Does the >> blogger have it all wrong, or should we be wary of using or referring >> others to the Internet Archive? >> >> >> Margo Gutstein >> Archivist >> Simon Wiesenthal Center >> [email protected] >> __ >> Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual >> author >> and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries >> (AJL) >> ================================== >> Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: >> [email protected] >> To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: >> https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran >> Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] >> Ha-Safran Archives: >> Current: >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html >> Earlier Listserver: >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html >> AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org >> -- >> Hasafran mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran >> > > > -- > Daniel D. 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