[MCN-L] IP SIG: (c)ollectanea - Collected Perspectives On Copyright - U of Maryland

Yet another interesting intiative from the Center for Property (CIP) at the University of Maryland: -- We would greatly appreciate your posting the message below to your listserv or promoting this opportunity within your networks. Thank you. [Please excuse the inevitable

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Collectanea!: Collected Perspectives On Copyright

Oops. Well, further proof that great minds think alike. Amalyah - Original Message - From: Rob Lancefield rlancefi...@wesleyan.edu To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 10:29 PM Subject: [MCN-L] IP SIG: Collectanea!: Collected Perspectives On Copyright Hello all,

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Second Life's response to GetaFirstLife.com

to the parody in the first place): http://www.convergenceculture.org/weblog/2007/01/proceed_and_permitted_second_l.php For a change, it's good news. And it heralds the appearance of the world's first Proceed and Permitted letter (as opposed to Cease and Desist). Priceless. Amalyah Keshet Head

[MCN-L] IP SIG: CAA Conference Sessions on Art Publishing, Copyright, and Related Issues

Yet another worthwhile copyright event in New York -- and another request that anyone who attends report to the MCN IP constituency. Amalyah Keshet Chair, MCN IP SIG -- As you know, the College Art Association Annual Conference takes place next week in New York City, at the Hilton

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Copyright at the Whitney: the Oldenburg-Picasso Exhibit

to the foreground... Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem akeshet at imj.org.il Chair, MCN IP SIG www.mcn.edu Blog www.musematic.net

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Belgian Court Rules Against Google in Newspaper Case

=HOMETEMPLATE=DEFAULT U.S.-based technology lawyer [and MCN 2006 speaker] Jonathan Band said the ruling was neither final - as it can be appealed to higher courts in Belgium - nor did it bear much weight since legal precedent is not as important in Continental European law. Amalyah Keshet Head

[MCN-L] IP SIG: IP events in Wash. DC - and webcasts

- Original Message - From: CNI-COPYRIGHT -- Copyright Intellectual Property CNI-COPYRIGHT at cni.org American University Washington College of Law's Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property announces the following events for the coming month: BROWN BAG LUNCH SPEAKER

[MCN-L] Fw: Best Practices in Copyright and Fair Use for User-Generated Content

[PIJIP-(C)] PIJIP and the AU Senter for Social Media Release Best Practices in Copyright and Fair Use for User-Generated ContentImportant announcement, below. More important announcement: Prof. Peter Jaszi will be speaking at MCN 2008 in Washington, DC. Amalyah Keshet Chair, MCN IP SIG

[MCN-L] IP SIG and Academics: Copyright Academic Integrity Workshops

- Original Message - From: Olga Francois ofranc...@umuc.edu Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 8:01 PM Subject: Early Registration Reminder: Copyright AI Workshops Colleagues, Please forward this announcement to interested faculty and staff: In recent years, plagiarism and cheating

[MCN-L] Fw: Google to host open access science data

Just because it sounds cool: - Original Message - Google to Host Terabytes of Open-Source Science Data By Alexis Madrigal January 18, 2008 | 2:23:21 PM Categories: Dataset, Research http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/01/google-to-provi.html Sources at Google have

[MCN-L] IP SIG: MPAA admits its statistics are full of...ummmm...errors

For those of you on college campuses following this sad saga: - Original Message Subject: Re: MPAA admits its statistics are fullof...u...errors This is the famous study that MPAA has been waving around but has refused to show anyone the basic data and methodology.

[MCN-L] adobe opensources flex

In case this is of interest: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/adobe_takes_fle.php Adobe Systems announced last night that they will be open sourcing their Adobe Flex framework so developers can access their source code to enhance its ability to create Rich Internet applications. The

[MCN-L] IP SIG: The future of IP?

Panellists Disagree About Future Of IP System, WIPO By Tove Iren S. Gerhardsen NEW YORK - Speakers at an intellectual property conference here disagreed on the future of the IP system and what role the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will play during the next 10 years. But there

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Berkman Center Internet Society Conference 2007

.' Registration is open to all. Please join us in declaring University in cyberspace. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is2k7www.is2k7.org Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem www.imj.org.il Chair, MCN IP special interest group www.mcn.edu Blog

[MCN-L] IP SIG: DMCA Threats As A Marketing Strategy

Nice try, guys. Not using their DRM product constitutes avoidance of copyright protection, and therefore violates the DMCA? Further proof that the problem with the DMCA is that induces way too much creative thinking. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070510/195141.shtml Amalyah Keshet

[MCN-L] Fw: New Position: Director, Visual Resources Collection; Univ. Delaware, Art History

- Original Message - At the request of David Stone I am forwarding the following announcement for a new position at the University of Delaware. Please forward to anyone you think might be interested in this exciting new position. - Director, Visual Resources

[MCN-L] IP SIG: A Fair(y) Use Tale

__ Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem akeshet at imj.org.il Chair, MCN IP SIG www.mcn.edu Blog www.musematic.net

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Group defies Smithsonian copyright claim

photographers. Thus they are indeed protected by copyright, transferred by the photographer to the Smithsonian. Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem www.imj.org.il Chair, MCN IP special interest group www.mcn.edu Blog www.musematic.net

[MCN-L] Dorling Kindersley personalized travel guides

Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem akeshet at imj.org.il Chair, MCN IP SIG www.mcn.edu Blog www.musematic.net

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Spam v. Spam

five years to figure out? Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem akeshet at imj.org.il Chair, MCN IP SIG www.mcn.edu Blog www.musematic.net

[MCN-L] Fw: Second Call for Papers and Invited Sessions Proposals for CITSA 2008

- Original Message - Announcement --- January 9th is the new deadline for papers/abstracts submissions and Invited Sessions Proposals for CITSA 2008: The 5th International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies,

[MCN-L] Digitial Image management software for Mac's

Our scanning manager loves CS3 Bridge. Says it's a big improvement. He also says that if you want to preview hundreds of images at a go, use Adobe Lightroom. Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem akeshet at imj.org.il Chair, MCN IP SIG

[MCN-L] Fw: Lightroom, Aperture, or Bridge?

This caught my eye in light of recent discussion: http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/25557.html Amalyah Keshet

[MCN-L] IP SIG: 2008 Copyright Symposium at UMUC

- Original Message - From: Olga Francois ofranc...@umuc.edu Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 7:50 PM Subject: Save the Date: 2008 Copyright Symposium! Greetings, I just wanted to send you a quick note to let you know that dates have been chosen for the 2008 Center for Intellectual

[MCN-L] Ask.com's Search Services Deletes Users' Records

A step in the right direction. Ask.com's Search Services Deletes Users' Records Hoping to establish itself as the Internet's least intrusive search engine, Ask.com is empowering people to prevent their

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Fw: In The News

A little holiday reading. As always, interesting stuff. Cheers. Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem akeshet at imj.org.il Chair, MCN IP SIG www.mcn.edu Blog www.musematic.net == (C)ollectanea Blog. Collected perspectives

[MCN-L] not so anonymous

This item did NOT make my day. But probably important to know about and to keep in mind. Amalyah Keshet - Original Message - recently, netflix released some anonymized usage data in order to seed a technical challenge (on recommending algorithms). bruce schneier reports

[MCN-L] Fw: Yahoo! and Adobe! sign! ad-packed! PDF! pact!

Oh, please. Give us a break, already! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/29/yahoo_adobe_pdf_advert/ http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9825409-7.html ...Yahoo! has signed up with Adobe to incorporate targeted adverts into PDF documents. The scheme is optional, but unfortunately only for

[MCN-L] |::| Museums ON SecondLife |::|

Registration is 8000 lindens (equivalent of $30 USD) payable in lindens to avatar Valencia Lane in Second Life. I'm going to put in a budget request for that -- just to see how our Finance Department reacts! Amalyah Keshet (URL correction: http://www.alliancelibraries.info/virtualworlds

[MCN-L] |::| Museums ON SecondLife |::|

Media Coordinator Judah L. Magnes Museum -Original Message- From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Amalyah Keshet Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 4:04 AM To: Museum Computer Network Listserv Subject: Re: [MCN-L] |::| Museums ON SecondLife

[MCN-L] Difficult license provisions

In perpetuity. Amalyah Keshet Chair, MCN IP SIG www.mcn.edu - Original Message - From: les...@copyrightlaws.com To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu; Deborah Wythe deborahwythe at hotmail.com Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 4:05 AM Subject: [MCN-L] Difficult license

[MCN-L] Fw: computational photography

c|net carries a cool story on computational photography - enhancing and enriching captured light field data to increase the amount of information that is relevant to the consumer - read the whole article for many different approaches -

[MCN-L] Fw: metadata: adobe text for video

Again, thanks to the indefatigable Peter Brantley: http://www.beet.tv/2008/07/huge-adobe-read.html Beginning later this year, Flash video will contain rich metadata in the form of automated transcripts. Adobe is readying a system that uses speech-to-text technology directly into the

[MCN-L] IP SIG: The Internet Library of Law and Court Decisions

others. There are also links to other sites. Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem akeshet at imj.org.il Chair, MCN IP SIG www.mcn.edu Blog www.musematic.net

[MCN-L] IP SIG: NASA Beams Beatles' 'Across the Universe' Into Space

://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080205/ap_on_re_eu/obit_maharishi_mahesh_yogi Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem akeshet at imj.org.il Chair, MCN IP SIG www.mcn.edu Blog www.musematic.net

[MCN-L] IP SIG: NYT on Latest Harry Potter Fair Use Flap

New York Times February 9, 2008 Talking Business; Page B1 A Tight Grip Can Choke Creativity By JOE NOCERA On Friday, a lawyer named Anthony Falzone filed his side's first big brief in the case of Warner Bros. Entertainment and J. K. Rowling v. RDR Books. Mr. Falzone is employed by

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Re: Free Webcast Friday on the Value of Fair Use

: Free Webcast Friday on the Value of Fair Use Sounds worth catching this on Friday if you can. Amalyah Keshet Chair, MCN IP SIG --- ???: Steve Worona : ? 29/01/2008 18:45 : Free

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Copyright Symposium, University of Maryland, May 29-30, 2008

- Original Message - From: Olga Francois ofranc...@umuc.edu Subject: Copyright Symposium, May 29-30, 2008 We are pleased to announce the... 8th Annual Symposium Copyright Monopoly: Playing the innovation game May 28-30, 2008 in Metro Washington, D.C.

[MCN-L] Fw: Lessig for Congress!

News flash from another list: Cyber-hero and free culture advocate Larry Lessig is mulling a run for the open congressional seat formerly held by the late Rep. Tom Lantos. This is not a joke. California's 12th district, encompassing a good part of Silicon Valley, has a tech-centric

[MCN-L] CAL SIG: Clifford LYNCH: Authorship and Identity - Berkeley

local to bay area. for those interested. FRIDAY AFTERNOON SEMINAR ON INFORMATION ACCESS. South Hall 107, Fridays 3-5 pm http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-1/f07/schedule.html Everyone interested is welcome!

[MCN-L] IP SIG: (c)ollectanea blog - CIP Univ of Maryland

In case you have any time left afer reading Musematic.net : - Original Message - Greetings, Please join the Center for Intellectual Property in welcoming Carlos Ovalle to the (c)ollectanea Blog this

[MCN-L] IP SIG: In The News

Good stuff from: (C)ollectanea Blog. Collected perspectives on copyright. http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/ Center for Intellectual Property, UMUC Book review: New Book Explores Social Costs of Digital Rights Management by Susan Lang, LinuxElectrons,

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Economic Study on Fair Use

An economic study released by the CCIA [Computer Communications Industry Association] recently, Fair Use in the U.S. Economy, is available on the CCIA's website at: http://www.ccianet.org/artmanager/uploads/1/FairUseStudy-Sep12.pdf Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources Copyright

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Economic study of Fair Use: summary

Here's a very good summary I should have sent along with the link, as well as a press release from Public Knowledge: --- Full study: http://www.ccianet.org/artmanager/uploads/1/FairUseStudy-Sep12.pdf Fair Use

[MCN-L] New York Times To Close TimesSelect

://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-new-york-times-to-close-timesselect-effective-wednesday/ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html?_r=1hporef=slogin Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem akeshet at imj.org.il Chair, MCN IP

[MCN-L] :-)

The latest weighty and important headline to catch the discerning eye of technocognoscenti: The Smiley Face Turns 25! http://slashdot.org/articles/07/09/18/2313232.shtml ...and for a change, perusing the comments section proved a worthwhile:

[MCN-L] XML meets Emoticon

In my haste to get the news flash out, I failed to notice the Slashdot comment most obviously appropriate for the MCN constituency: The emoticon is dead... long live XML! Thankfully, we no longer need to use this

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Christoph Büchel vs Mass MoCA

the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990, which provides that an artist has the right to prevent the use of his or her name as the author of the work of visual art in the event of a distortion, mutilation, or other modification of the work. Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources Copyright

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Fw: Costs of Copyright Confusion - American Univ. TODAY

For those of you lucky enough to be in the DC area - today! (Yes, this arrived only today.) Amalyah Keshet TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2007 The Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media Literacy Education Join us

[MCN-L] Fw: In The News

More good stuff from the Center for Intellectual Property, UMUC. Amalyah Keshet Chair, MCN IP SIG www.mcn.edu Blog www.musematic.net Please consider the environment before printing this email -- Blog

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Digital 'Fair Use' Bill Introduced In Congress

of the bill -- until it dawned on me that FAIR USE is -- you guessed it -- its acronym. There are probably congressional staff who sit around making up these names, and that thought alone is depressing. Amalyah Keshet

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Copyright Utopia- UMUC Copyright Symposium, May 21-23, 2007

The Center for Intellectual Property at UMUC would greatly appreciate your posting the message below to your listserv or promoting this opportunity within your networks. Thank you. [Please excuse the inevitable duplication of this notice.] What are Steve Jobs, Al Gore, Mark Cuban, Attorney

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Boucher-Dolittle Fair Use Act introduced (HR 1201)

From the Surprise! Surprise! department: RIAA slams FAIR USE Act http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070228-8948.html Amalyah Keshet Chair, MCN IP SIG - Original Message - From: David Green davidgr...@knowledgeculture.com To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu; CIP

[MCN-L] Creative Commons

Is anyone out there using Creative Commons licenses for museum or archive images? If so, which version(s) of the licenses are you using? And are you finding it to be useful? Many thanks for anything you might be willing to share on this subject. Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources

[MCN-L] WebWise 2007 proceedings available

And there are podcasts for us outcasts. Also available via the July 2007 issue of First Monday (volume 12, number 7) at http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_7/ Amalyah Keshet At 23:14 10/07/2007, you wrote: For those of you who missed the WebWise 2007 conference on Stewardship in the Digital

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Economist calculates optimum term of copyright: 14years (from BoingBoing)

://www.rufuspollock.org/archives/198 Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem akeshet at imj.org.il Chair, MCN IP SIG www.mcn.edu Blog www.musematic.net

[MCN-L] IP SIG: LACMA's Magritte exhibit: This is not fair use

/mcg2007/index.htm, organized by Simon Tanner and Naomi Korn and sponsored by the Museums Copyright Group. I hope to meet MCN IP colleages there -- yes? -- and I promise to report back to the MCN constituency. Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources Copyright Management The Israel Museum

[MCN-L] Fw: virtual worlds summit

Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem akeshet at imj.org.il Chair, MCN IP SIG www.mcn.edu Blog www.musematic.net

[MCN-L] IP SIG: new Berman anti-piracy bill coming

FYI. Emphasis of the scary parts is mine. Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem akeshet at imj.org.il Chair, MCN IP SIG www.mcn.edu Blog www.musematic.net

[MCN-L] interesting facebook response

The best part appears at the very end of Janine Carmona's plea for freedom from corporate advertising: Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder tool. Amalyah Keshet - Original Message - From: Nina Simon To: mcn-l at mcn.edu Sent

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Judge Kozinski Sept. 21 Lecture onFair Use + webcast

or some other kind soul could make an MP3 and post it to the MCN site? I'd love to have it but I'm indisposed. Many thanks, Alan On 9/11/06 5:31 AM, Amalyah Keshet akeshet at imj.org.il wrote: Yet another recommendation. Seems like this webcast is a must: I've actually seen him lecture

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Recent U.S. Cases on Fair Use

Exploring my ridiculously large file of Interesting - I'll get to that later e-mail messages, I ran across this one, below. Interesting indeed for IP SIG and all Fair Use fans out there. Old news, perhaps, but better late than never. Amalyah Keshet Chair, MCN IP SIG

[MCN-L] IP SIG reorganizes itself as the Judge Kozinski Fan Club

://underneaththeirrobes.blogs.com/ (Don't remember how I got there, but I did.) Ah, yes: http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/051121ta_talk_toobin These gentlemen are my kind of guys. Think Kozinski would agree to be keynote speaker at next year's MCN meeting? :o) Amalyah Keshet - Original

[MCN-L] Google and MCN 2006 Pasadena

University; Jonathan Band, policybandwidth.com; and Guy Pessach, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Yale Information Society Project.Moderator: Amalyah Keshet, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem The cultural heritage constituency has been or should be following with interest

[MCN-L] IP SIG: British Library calls for a serious updating of current copyright law

Try putting this one on a bumper sticker: Unless there is a serious updating of copyright law ...the law becomes an ass. Strong words, and timely. Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Chair, MCN IP SIG

[MCN-L] MCN-L List Administration

Rousing cheers, indeed, all around. Thanks, guys. Go, MCN! Amalyah Keshet At 21:56 27/06/2006, you wrote: Dear MCN-L Subscribers: Please join me in a rousing cheer for hours of hard work and dedication on the part of Rob Lancefield, Web Committee Chair; Richard Urban, MCN-L Manager

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Microsoft and Creative Commons - good news for a change

/microsoft_creative_commons/ Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Tel +972-2-670-8874 Fax +972-2-670-8064

[MCN-L] Fwd: folksonomy article

Thanks for forwarding this. Good article. Amalyah Keshet At 20:33 17/11/2006, you wrote: Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:41:44 -0800 Sender: Visual Resources Association VRA-L at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU From: Jeanette Mills jcmills at U.WASHINGTON.EDU Subject: folksonomy article

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Copyright: The Only Certainty is Uncertainty” February 15, 2007

Commons Fellow and founder of Free Culture @ NYU. To register for this event, visit our website at http://www.metro.orgwww.metro.org -Original Message- From: musip at yahoogroups.com [mailto:musip at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of amalyah keshet Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 5:24 AM

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Gowers Review of Intellectual Property

www.britac.ac.uk Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem www.imj.org.il Chair, MCN IP special interest group www.mcn.edu Blog www.musematic.net

[MCN-L] IP SIG, et al.: Happy Public Domain Day

It seems that yesterday was Public Domain Day: http://www.copyrightwatch.ca/ It's January 1st, the day on which the calendar rolls over, and with it, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of books, articles, photographs, works of art, unpublished documents, and other works, in all areas of

[MCN-L] IP SIG: update on orphan works (Kahle v. Gonzales)

that are no longer commercially valuable from the grips of copyright law. - Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem akeshet at imj.org.il Chair, MCN IP SIG www.mcn.edu Blog www.musematic.net

[MCN-L] Univ of Arizona SIRLS DigIn Certificate

Apologies for cross posting, etc. - Original Message - The University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science and The University of Arizona Office of Continuing Education and Academic Outreach are now accepting applications from students interested in a new

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Why Your e-Books Are Not Yours

the first sale doctrine, you might only be able to resell or give away your Kindle -- not a copy of the work. The article on Gizmodo: http://gizmodo.com/369235/amazon-kindle-and-sony-reader-locked-up-why-your-books-are-no-longer-yours Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources Copyright Management

[MCN-L] Fw: Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration competition

== Deadline Approaching: 2008 Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration The deadline for nominations for the 2008 Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration (MATC Awards) is April 14, 2008. The MATC Awards consist of up to ten $50,000 or $100,000 prizes, which a receiving

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Op-Ed on Israeli Fair Use Provision

MCN conference regulars will remember speaker Jonathan Band. Below, a nice piece he wrote on Fair Use. Amalyah Keshet Chair, MCN IP SIG www.mcn.edu Blog www.musematic.net -- Below is a link to an op-ed piece I wrote for the Jerusalem Post in support

[MCN-L] Fw: Software for testing ISPs

From Fred von Lohmann at Electronic Freedom Foundation http://www.eff.org/ http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/03/keeping-isps-honest - Original Message - Software for Keeping ISPs Honest Posted by Peter Eckersley Yesterday's announcement of a d?tente between Comcast and BitTorrent was

[MCN-L] Security Lapse Exposes Personal Facebook Photos

Susan: Neo-Luddism wasn't what I was getting at, of course, but perhaps you're not far off. Seems there is a real and present danger in the use of anything with a router attached to it -- including the supermarket! Unauthorized software that was secretly installed on servers in Hannaford

[MCN-L] Fw: '08 Symposium Perspectives on Copyright, U of Md

8th Annual Symposium Copyright Monopoly: Playing the innovation game May 28-30, 2008 in Metro Washington, D.C. http://www.umuc.edu/CIP2008/ Since 2001, the Center for Intellectual Property (CIP) has provided premier conferences focusing on the intersection of

[MCN-L] Fw: Digitization Expo at TLA, April 15th at the Dallas Convention Center,

For any Dallasonians (is that a word?) on the list: - Original Message - From: Danielle Plumer dplu...@tsl.state.tx.us Please join us for a special one day event, the Digitization Expo 2008 at the Texas Library Association's Annual Convention. Everyone is welcome to attend, and the

[MCN-L] Fw:Midwest CONTENTdm Users Group 4/29-4/30

And now for any Indianapolitans on the list: - Original Message - Join us at Indiana University?Purdue University Indianapolis for the third meeting of the Midwest CONTENTdm Users Group. The meeting begins at 1:30 pm ET on Tuesday, April 29. The Registration Deadline is April 15.

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Public Knowledge Slams New Intellectual Property Legislation

For immediate release April 1, 2008 Public Knowledge Slams New Intellectual Property Legislation The following statement is attributed to Gigi B. Sohn, president and co-founder of Public Knowledge: ?Earlier today, we were made aware of a new piece of intellectual property legislation, S.

[MCN-L] E-books in museums

Greg: We're doing a QR code thing in our latest contemporary art exhibition, Magic Lantern http://www.imj.org.il/exhibitions/presentation/exhibit.asp?id=768 Will brag about it to whoever is interested, next week in Atlanta. Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources Copyright Management

[MCN-L] Calling all cataloguing nerds

out there can take apart everything I've just written. Amalyah Keshet - Original Message - From: Real, Will re...@carnegiemuseums.org Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 16:28 Subject: [MCN-L] Calling all cataloguing nerds To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu If any of you

[MCN-L] Google Book Settlement: Business Trumps Fair Use

Remember Don't be evil? By settling a lawsuit with book authors and publishers this week, Google http://www.pcworld.com/tags/Google+Inc..html is looking out for itself and has avoided fighting for and possibly

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Creative Commons: letter from Renata Avila, CC Guatemala project lead

Original Message Subject:[cc-commonerletter] Commoner Letter #2 - Renata Avila, CC Guatemala project lead Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:47:21 -0800 From: Melissa Reeder meli...@creativecommons.org To our community - we are honored and proud to

[MCN-L] Nobel Prize Winning Economist Explains How IP Rights Are Part Of The Globalization Problem

Interesting transcript of a talk by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on Making Globalization Work http://www.cceia.org/resources/transcripts/5397.html. http://www.cceia.org/resources/transcripts/5397.html Via techdirt http://techdirt.com/articles/20080421/024049903.shtml

[MCN-L] Internet Archive wins against FBI

With thanks to the inimitable Peter Brantley: - Original Message - The internet archive has won a push back against a national security letter. GO BREWSTER, GO!!! http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/07/BA7C10IJ17.DTL Brewster Kahle, who runs an online library

[MCN-L] Fw: COMPUTERS, FREEDOM, AND PRIVACY: TECHNOLOGY POLICY '08

COMPUTERS, FREEDOM, AND PRIVACY: TECHNOLOGY POLICY '08 http://cfp2008.org/ 18th Annual CFP conference May 20-23, 2008 Omni Hotel New Haven, CT Conference Blog: http://cfp08.blogspot.com/ Facebook Group: http://www.facebook.com/groups.php?id=683858084 Conference Wiki:

[MCN-L] IP SIG: Creative Commons Gets $4 Million Grant; Lessig Leaves

Creative Commons Gets $4 Million Grant; Lessig Leaves Creative Commons, the nonprofit dedicated to reforming copyright in the digital age, said it has received a $4 million grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Meanwhile, Lawrence Lessig, the organization's founder, a

[MCN-L] National Archives films to be sold on Amazon

This one nearly snuck by me unnoticed: National Archives films to be sold on Amazon for $19.99 in non-exclusive deal. http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_6508029 The public will be able to purchase copies of

[MCN-L] play, the Berkeley digital media conference

People in Berkeley have all the fun. I want to make sure folks are aware of play, the Berkeley digital media conference on Saturday, October 27. If you're at all interested in digital media businesses, there's sure to be something for you. We have nine panel topics this year, along with

[MCN-L] Magic Lantern Show

People in DC also have too much fun. Here's one for technology antiquarians: Special Event at La Maison Fran?aise Magic Lantern Show Tuesday, October 30 at 7 pm Wednesday, October 31 at 7 pm Thursday, November 1 at 7 pm Experience the 19th-century precursor to cinema. Magic

[MCN-L] Photoshop to the rescue

And you thought Photoshop was only good for...? - Thai Police Arrest Pedophile Suspect in Unscrambled Photos Thai police have arrested a suspected Canadian pedophile following a global manhunt launched when computer experts unscrambled digital photos

[MCN-L] IP SIG event at MCN Chicago 2007

), and all institutions are invited to participate in the PLUS Museums Committee. More at www.useplus.org http://www.useplus.org === Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem akeshet

[MCN-L] Fw: International Conference on 'Building Knowledge Repositories: Cross-Sectoral Collaborations New Delhi Feb. 2008

at yahoo.com Regards. Nandini Dutta Head Resource Centre National Institute of fashion technology Hauz Khas New Delhi Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem akeshet at imj.org.il Chair, MCN IP SIG www.mcn.edu Blog www.musematic.net

[MCN-L] Fw: COURSES FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS AND LIBRARIES- London

- Original Message - Electric Lane is delivering two courses for BAPLA, one for image libraries and one for photographers. IMAGE ASSESSMENT AND WORKFLOW - Next session Feb 7 SUPPLYING DIGITAL IMAGES - IMAGE PRODUCTION FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS - 24 January IMAGE ASSESSMENT AND WORKFLOW This

[MCN-L] MPAA University 'Toolkit' Raises Privacy Concerns

MPAA University 'Toolkit' Raises Privacy Concerns http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/11/mpaa_university_toolkit_opens_1.html What we found was that depending on how a university's network is set up, installing and using the MPAA tool in its default configuration could expose to

[MCN-L] EFF Releases Reports and Software to Spot Interference with Internet Traffic

Subject: EFF Releases Reports and Software to Spot Interference with Internet Traffic Press release below, but the short version is that EFF released 3 things today: 1. a white paper detailing what we know about Comcast's interference activities; 2. a white paper describing how

[MCN-L] [IP SIG] Orphan Works database

to be praised for this great initiative. Perhaps we could collectively encourage Stanford to enlarge the scope of the project. Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem www.imj.org.il Chair, MCN IP special interest group www.mcn.edu Blog

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