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

2007-02-06 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 duplication of this notice.]

 The Center for Intellectual Property (CIP) at the University of Maryland
 University College is excited to announce the launch of a new blog
 portal addressing the cultural, political and legal context of copyright
 issues:

 (c)ollectanea! http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/

 The new (c)ollectanea blog will serve as an online discussion platform
 for the current and future Center for Intellectual Property scholars.
 Today, join one of the leading copyright scholars in the country,
 GEORGIA HARPER as she provides insight and leads discussions with guest
 bloggers on issues relating to copyright generally, with a specific
 focus on issues facing the education and library communities.   Georgia
 K. Harper serves as the CIP 2006-2008 Intellectual Property Virtual
 Scholar and the Scholarly Communications Advisor for the University of
 Texas at Austin Libraries. Previously, Ms. Harper specialized in
 copyright law and created the well known and widely used online
 publication, The Copyright Crash Course, for the University of Texas
 System

 CIP is one of the leading online educational centers providing training,
 and solutions on copyright issues affecting the higher education
 community. This new blog, (c)ollectanea, furthers the Center's mission
 to provide timely copyright resources for educators.  Although the blog
 will address the needs of the education and library communities, all are
 welcome to engage in the discussion and contribute.

 Share your thoughts on copyright issues. Join the blog group
 (c)ollectanea, collected perspectives on copyright.
 http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/



 Marvin Stewart
 Event Specialist
 Center for Intellectual Property
 University of Maryland University College
 3501 University Boulevard East
 Adelphi,MD 20783
 T: 240.582.2966
 mdstewart at umuc.edu

 ---

 Edtech Archives, posting guidelines and other information are at:
 http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~edweb


 Reposted by David Dillard who lists recent posting headings from this
 weblog.

 DMCA Take-down errors

 Encouraging news from Schloss hearing

 Presses diversifying -- very good news!

 Not so fast there, Polly Anna

 More common sense!

 Finally, at least a suggestion that common sense might prevail

 Quoting the last weblog post in the list above:

 The New York Times technology piece, Record Labels Contemplate
 Unrestricted Digital Music - New York Times, sounds a very promising note
 -- suggesting that we may finally see an end to the recording industry's
 intransigence in its hopeless war on downloading and file-sharing. I
 would predict that within a few years the large companies will be
 wondering (like the rest of us already are) what took them so long. I
 hesitate to be too optimistic about this, but again, it's just such a
 positive development that I have to take some small pleasure in the idea
 that common sense does, on occasion, prevail.

 Other Net-Gold content regarding copyright may be found at this URL:

 http://groups.google.com/groups/search?ie=UTF-8oe=UTF-8q=
 %22net-gold%22+and+copyrightqt_s=Search

 A shorter URL for the above link:

 http://tinyurl.com/332wsc

 Groups
 Results 1 - 50 of 675 for net-gold and copyright

 Content Sample of Post titles:


 Sorted by relevance Sort by date
 CANADIAN COPYRIGHT BILL RAISES CONCERNS FOR SEARCH ...  Group:
 net-gold ... 24 Jul 2005 14:36:47 -0600 From: George Lessard
 m... at web.net Reply-To:
 Net-Gold at yahoogroups.com To: L8 Media Mentor
 mediamen... at yahoogroups.com, L9 NetGold
 Net-Gold at yahoogroups.com Subject: [Net-Gold] CANADIAN COPYRIGHT BILL
 RAISES ...
 Jul 25 2005 by David P. Dillard - 1 message - 1 author


 CANADIAN COPYRIGHT BILL A MISSED OPPORTUNITY / Michael ...  Group:
 net-gold ... Tue, 5 Jul 2005 08:37:25 -0600 From: George Lessard
 m... at web.net Reply-To:
 Net-Gold at yahoogroups.com To: L8 Media Mentor
 mediamen... at yahoogroups.com, L9 NetGold
 Net-Gold at yahoogroups.com Subject: [Net-Gold] CANADIAN COPYRIGHT BILL A
 ...
 Jul 5 2005 by David P. Dillard - 1 message - 1 author


 COPYRIGHT: FAIR USE : COPYRIGHT FREE: Sources ...  Group: net-gold
 Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 09:31:32 +0200 From: Claude Almansi
 claude.almansi at bluewin.
 ch Reply-To: Net-Gold at yahoogroups.com To: Net-Gold at yahoogroups.com
 Subject: Re:
 [Net-Gold] COPYRIGHT: FAIR USE : COPYRIGHT FREE: Sources Listing and About
 ...
 Jun 2 2005 by David P. Dillard - 4 messages - 1 author


 COPYRIGHT: RESOURCES: WIPO - World Intellectual Property ...  Group:
 bit.listserv.edtech From: David P. Dillard j... at temple.edu COPYRIGHT:
 RESOURCES: WIPO - World
 Intellectual Property Organization: 

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

2007-02-06 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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,

 From the CNI list (hope Amalyah isn't clicking Send right now, too):

  --- begin forwarded text ---

To: CNI-ANNOUNCE -- News from the Coalition CNI-ANNOUNCE at cni.org
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:15:31 -0500
From: Joan K. Lippincott joan at cni.org
Subject: [CNI-ANNOUNCE]  Collectanea!: Collected Perspectives On
  Copyright

The Center for Intellectual Property (CIP) at the University of Maryland
University College is excited to announce the launch of a new blog
portal addressing the cultural, political and legal context of copyright
issues:

(c)ollectanea! http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/

The new (c)ollectanea blog will serve as an online discussion platform
for the current and future Center for Intellectual Property scholars.
Today, join one of the leading copyright scholars in the country,
GEORGIA HARPER as she provides insight and leads discussions with guest
bloggers on issues relating to copyright generally, with a specific
focus on issues facing the education and library communities.   Georgia
K. Harper serves as the CIP 2006-2008 Intellectual Property Virtual
Scholar and the Scholarly Communications Advisor for the University of
Texas at Austin Libraries. Previously, Ms. Harper specialized in
copyright law and created the well known and widely used online
publication, The Copyright Crash Course, for the University of Texas
System

CIP is one of the leading online educational centers providing training,
and solutions on copyright issues affecting the higher education
community. This new blog, (c)ollectanea, furthers the Center's mission
to provide timely copyright resources for educators.  Although the blog
will address the needs of the education and library communities, all are
welcome to engage in the discussion and contribute.

Share your thoughts on copyright issues. Join the blog group
(c)ollectanea, collected perspectives on copyright.
http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/

Marvin Stewart
Event Specialist
Center for Intellectual Property
University of Maryland University College
3501 University Boulevard East
Adelphi,MD 20783
T: 240.582.2966
mdstewart at umuc.edu

   end forwarded text 
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 301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965
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[MCN-L] IP SIG: Second Life's response to GetaFirstLife.com

2007-02-06 Thread Amalyah Keshet
Well, the first article I glanced at at the (c)ollectanea blog
http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/2007/01/more_common_sense.html

led me to a really, really interesting article about Second Life's response to 
the parody site getafirstlife.com (and thanks to Diane Zorich for alerting me 
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 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: CAA Conference Sessions on Art Publishing, Copyright, and Related Issues

2007-02-08 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 Hotel, 6th Avenue at 53rd Street.

 I want to call your attention to a number of sessions and events (see 
 below=
 )
 that address questions of art and image copyrights and uses, publishing, 
 an=
 d
 other related issues. This year we have an exceptionally rich roster of 
 suc=
 h
 sessions. I attach a list of them, with times and locations.

 For those of you who do not normally attend the CAA Conference, 
 information
 about it is available here: http://conference.collegeart.org/2007/ 
 Includin=
 g
 a complete roster of conference sessions and other events. Single-day 
 passe=
 s
 are available.

 Please note that Reexamining Appropriation, Part I has been moved 
 offsite
 and will take place at the New York City Bar Association on 44th Street.
 Please see the flyer below. This panel will be of exceptional interest, 
 and
 includes the Hon. Pierre Leval, of the US Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit.
*This event is open to the public, free of charge. *(The information in the
 published conference program is incorrect.)

 Best regards,
 Eve Sinaiko
 Director of Publications
 College Art Association

 
 CAA Sessions on Art Publishing


 Thursday, Feb. 15, 5:30 =96 7:00 pm

 A Plea for Leniency: Image Rights and Fees for
 Scholarly Publications
 Gibson Room, 2nd floor, Hilton New York
 Chair: Inge Reist, Frick Art Reference Library, Association
 of Research Institutes in Art History

 Architectural History Online: The Challenges of Digital Research and
 Publication
 Petit Trianon, 3rd floor, Hilton New York
 Chair: Hilary Ballon, Columbia University, Society of Architectural
 Historians

 Friday, Feb. 16, 10:00 am =96 12:30 pm

 Reexamining Appropriation: The Copy, the Law,
 and Beyond, Part I
 New York City Bar Association Great Hall
 42 W. 44th Street
 Chairs: Martha Buskirk, Montserrat College of Art;
 Virginia Rutledge, Cravath, Swaine  Moore LLP

 The Hon. Pierre N. Leval, United States Court of Appeals
 for the Second Circuit

 Inappropriate? Copying in the Renaissance, Lisa Pon, Meadows School of the
 Arts, SMU

 The Reign of the Quotation=97Appropriation and Its
 Audience, Johanna Burton, Princeton University

 From Appropriation to Postproduction, Jaimey Hamilton, University of
 Hawai'i, Manoa

 William Patry, Google

 Friday, Feb. 16, 12:30 =96 2:00 pm

 Fair Use in the Trenches: When to Seek Permission and
 When Not To
 Gramercy B, 2nd floor, Hilton New York
 Chair: David Green, Knowledge Culture, CAA Committee
 on Intellectual Property

 Fair Use: Lessons from the Past to Help with Present Decisions, Siva
 Vaidhyanathan, New York University

 Legal Perspectives, Gretchen Wagner, ARTstor

 Fair Use and Visual Resource Collections, Benjamin
 Kessler, visual resources professional, Chicago
 Friday, Feb. 16, 5:30 =96 7:00 pm

 The Qualities of Enduring Art Publications
 Gramercy B, 2nd floor, Hilton New York
 Chair: Susan Chun, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Libraries Association 
 of
 North America

 Kraig Binkowski, Yale Center for British Art
 Max Marmor, ARTstor
 Sharon Helgason Gallagher, Distributed Art Publishers

 Saturday, Feb. 17, 9:30 am =96 noon

 Art Catalogues Then and Now
 Nassau Suite, 2nd floor, Hilton New York
 Chairs: Susan F. Rossen, Art Institute of Chicago; Martha M. Ward,
 University of Chicago, Association of Art Editors

 Saturday, Feb. 17, 12:30 =96 2:00 pm

 Issues in Art History Publishing
 Gramercy B, 2nd floor, Hilton New York
 Chairs: Catherine Soussloff, University of California, Santa Cruz; William
 Tronzo, Stanford Humanities Center, CAA Publications Committee

 Mari=EBt Westermann, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
 Susan Bielstein, University of Chicago Press
 Patricia Rubin, Courtauld Institute of Art

 Saturday, Feb. 17,  2:30 =96 5:00 pm

 Reexamining Appropriation: The Copy, the Law, and
 Beyond, Part II
 Beekman Parlor, 2nd floor, Hilton New York
 Chairs: Martha Buskirk, Montserrat College of Art; Virginia Rutledge,
 Cravath, Swaine  Moore LLP

 Stopped Making Sense: Appropriation as a 1970s Social Phenomenon
 Sarah Evans, Cornell University

 The Problematic of the Signature: Reexamining Appropriation in 
 Contemporary
 Indigenous Art and Cultural Heritage, Tressa Berman, San Francisco Art
 Institute

 Art Appropriation and Identity
 Sharon Matt Atkins, Currier Museum of Art

 Art and Activism: The Xingwei of Wang Hai and Zhao Bandi
 Winnie Wong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 Discussant: Arindam Dutta

 _

 Reexamining Appropriation: The Copy, the Law, and Beyond

 Friday, February 16, 10:00 am - 12:30 pm


 New York City Bar Association
 Great Hall
 42 W. 44th Street
 (between 5th and 6th Avenues)


 A discussion

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

2007-02-11 Thread Amalyah Keshet
Interesting post at :
http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/

Copyright at the Whitney: the Oldenburg-Picasso Exhibit 
It goes without saying that I can't go anywhere without seeing copyright issues 
lurking in the background. The last room of the Whitney's Picasso and American 
Art, however, forced them 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

2007-02-15 Thread Amalyah Keshet
Belgian Court Rules Against Google in Newspaper Case [from GigaLaw.com]
 
Google Inc. lost a copyright lawsuit to Belgian newspapers that had demanded it 
remove headlines and links to articles posted on its news site without their 
permission. The ruling, if it stands on appeal, could set a precedent for how 
Web search engines link to copyrighted material in the tumultuous arena of 
online news, according to the Belgian copyright group that launched the case.  
[from GigaLaw.com]

The link:
http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/B/BELGIUM_GOOGLE_VS_NEWSPAPERS?SITE=WIRESECTION=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 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: IP events in Wash. DC - and webcasts

2007-02-21 Thread Amalyah Keshet
- 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 SERIES
Tuesday, February 27th | 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm | 6th Floor ~ ILSP Lounge
Professor Peter Jaszi will kick off an occasional series of brownbag
lunches on topics of current interest. Peter will speak about his recent
experiences with efforts to protect traditional crafts and culture in
Indonesia.

IP/GENDER: THE UNMAPPED CONNECTIONS (FOURTH ANNUAL)
March 23, 2007 | 10:00 am - 4:00 pm | Room 503
This will be the fourth in a series of workshops discussing the
intersection of scholarship on gender and IP. This year's symposium will
feature Margaret Jane Radin, Christine Haight Farley, Jessica Silbey,
Dan Burk, Ann Bartow, Helen Lom, Diane Zimmerman, Julie Cohen, Ruchira
Goswami, Amita Dhanda, and Elizabeth Judge.

ILSP 25TH ANNIVERSARY PANEL ON TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE
March 27, 2007 | 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Room 602
In conjunction with the ILSP's 25th Anniversary Celebrations, PIJIP will
sponsor a panel featuring Carlos Correa, Peter Jaszi and a WIPO
representative on the relation between traditional knowledge, human
rights and development.

ILSP 25TH ANNIVERSARY PANEL ON COUNTERFEITING
March 26, 2007 | 2:00 pm - 3:45 pm | Room 528
Professor Peter Jaszi will moderate a panel of experts discussing
national and international regulation of trade in counterfeit goods.

Al events are free and open to the public.

For more information: visit www.pijip.org

Registration
www.wcl.american.edu/secle/cle_form.cfm

Webcasts
www.wcl.american.edu/pijip/webcast.cfm 




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

2008-09-08 Thread Amalyah Keshet
[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




AU's Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property and Center for 
Social Media
Release Best Practices in Copyright and Fair Use for User-Generated Content

Contact:  
Diane Bickell, AU Public Relations, dbickel at wcl.american.edu or 202-274-4276
Peter Jaszi, Director, PIJIP, pjaszi at wcl.american.edu 240-605-1934

Full text of 'Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video' (PDF)
http://www.wcl.american.edu/pijip/download.cfm?downloadfile=FDCD7029-F26B-FBB2-7C3C8D42F60DF20Btypename=dmFilefieldname=filename


WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 7, 2008)- The American University's Program on
Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) announces the
release of a new code of best practices in fair use for creators in the
burgeoning online video environment. The code was coordinated by PIJIP
and the American University Center for Social Media, with support from
the Ford Foundation through CSM s Future of Public Media Project. Back
in January, we released a report on copyright and remix culture, Recut,
Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video
(wcl.american.edu/pijip/), back in January. The code, which was made
public on July 7, represents the next step. Collaboratively created by a
team of media scholars and lawyers, these best practices will allow
users to make remixes, mashups, and other common online genres with the
knowledge that they are staying within copyright law. The full text of
the code for user generated video is available at wcl.american.edu/pijip.

Until now, anyone uploading a video has run the risk of becoming
inadvertently entangled in an industry skirmish, as media companies
struggle to keep their programs from circulating on the Internet. As
online providers have begun to negotiate with media companies, everyone
has agreed that fair use should be protected. Before the code s release,
there was no clear statement about what constitutes fair use in online
video.

The code identifies, among other things, six kinds of unlicensed uses of
copyrighted material that may be considered fair, under certain
limitations. They are:

* Commenting or critiquing of copyrighted material
* Use for illustration or example
* Incidental or accidental capture of copyrighted material
* Memorializing or rescuing of an experience or event
* Use to launch a discussion
* Recombining to make a new work, such as a mashup or a remix, whose
  elements depend on relationships between existing works

For instance, a blogger's critique of mainstream news is commentary. The
toddler dancing to the song Let s Go Crazy is an example of incidental
capture of copyrighted material. Many variations on the popular online
video Dramatic Chipmunk may be considered fair use, because they
recombine existing work to create new meaning.

If you would like to receive more information about the code, please
contact us at 202-274-4442.

_*Code of Best Practices Committee Members
*_
*Co-chairs
*
Peter Jaszi, Professor of Law, Faculty Director of the Glushko-Samuelson
Intellectual Property Clinic, Washington College of Law, American University
Patricia Aufderheide, Professor, Director of the Center for Social
Media, School of Communication, American University

*Members
*
Michael C. Donaldson, Esq., Los Angeles
Anthony Falzone, Lecturer, Executive Director, Fair Use Project,
Stanford Law School
Lewis Hyde, Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing, Kenyon
College; fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University
Mizuko Ito, Research Scientist, School of Cinematic Arts, University of
Southern California
Henry Jenkins, Professor, Program Head, Comparative Media Studies,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michael Madison, Associate Dean for Research, Associate Professor of
Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Pamela Samuelson, Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law and
Information, University of California, Berkeley
Rebecca Tushnet, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, Georgetown
University
Jennifer Urban, Clinical Associate Professor of Law; Director of
Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic, University of Southern
California

*_About PIJIP_
*
The Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property as American
University Washington College of Law is guided by an explicit focus on
the public interest. Through research, teaching, publications, events,
advocacy and the provision of legal services, PIJIP promotes the
interests of teachers, students, authors, artists, filmmakers, computer
programmers and users, bloggers, inventors

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

2008-01-08 Thread Amalyah Keshet

- 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 have been highlighted in the
news.  Whether discussing high-profile cases like Stephen Ambrose and
Doris Kearns Godwin or reviewing works on the subject by notables like
Judge Richard Posner, the public appears keenly interested in
plagiarism.   Plagiarism detection devices, once all the rage are, with
greater intensity, being challenged legally and ethically as
inappropriate vehicles for detecting plagiarism. Most recently,
Turnitin.com is in the middle of litigation challenging its business
practices as violations of copyright law.

Please join the Center for Intellectual Property as we attempt to
address the plagiarism and cheating issues on college campuses and try
to build communities that value academic integrity.  

---
Building a Community that Values Academic Integrity
http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/
---
Dates: February 25 - March 7, 2008
Moderators: Gary Pavela, M.A., J.D., Director of Judicial Programs and
Student Ethical Development, University of Maryland -- College Park 
Kimberly Bonner, J.D., Executive Director, Center for Intellectual
Property, University of Maryland University College

Studies show that establishing a community of shared academic values
fosters academic integrity in the classroom. However, establishing that
community may be more difficult when students adopt the values of a
digital remix culture that challenges the traditional understanding of
authorship. How do institutions foster academic integrity values in
light of changing cultural norms? Are there special techniques and tools
required? Are the best tools to use in preventing academic dishonesty
technical like Turnitin.com? And are there additional legal and
ethical issues involved when using technical measures to prevent
academic dishonesty? Please see site for detailed course objectives-
http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.shtml#AI
---

ALSO, EARLY REGISTRATION ENDS JAN 11TH FOR: 

Integrating Access to Digital Course Materials: Blackboard/WebCT,
Coursepacks, e-Reserves, Licensed Materials, e-Books, Open Access...What
Will They Think of Next?
Moderator: Georgia Harper, J.D., Scholarly Communications Advisor,
University Libraries, University of Texas at Austin
January 28 - February 8, 2008

SIGN UP NOW: 
Early Bird Rates $150
http://tinyurl.com/29jg53 [Secured Server]

Online Workshop FAQ- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/faq.shtml
Complete 2007-2008 Workshop Series see- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/
For more on the Center for Intellectual Property's resources  services
please see our homepage-  http://www.umuc.edu/cip/
--
Olga Francois, Assistant Director
Center for Intellectual Property
University of Maryland University College
3501 University Blvd. East, PGM3-780
Adelphi, MD 20783
ofrancois at umuc.edu




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

2008-01-21 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 disclosed that the humble domain,
 http://research.google.com ,
 will soon provide a home for terabytes of open-source scientific
 datasets. The storage will be free to scientists and access to the
 data will be free for all. The project, known as Palimpsest and first
 previewed to the scientific community at the Science Foo camp at the
 Googleplex last August, missed its original launch date this week, but
 will debut soon.
 
 Building on the company's acquisition of the data visualization
 technology, Trendalyzer, from the oft-lauded, TED presenting Gapminder
 team, Google will also be offering algorithms for the examination and
 probing of the information. The new site will have YouTube-style
 annotating and commenting features.
 
 [N.N.: TED talk : http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/92 ]
 
 The storage would fill a major need for scientists who want to openly
 share their data, and would allow citizen scientists access to an
 unprecedented amount of data to explore. For example, two planned
 datasets are all 120 terabytes of Hubble Space Telescope data and the
 images from the Archimedes Palimpsest, the 10th century manuscript
 that inspired the Google dataset storage project.
 
 UPDATE (12:01pm): Attila Csordas of Pimm has a lot more details on the
 project, including a set of slides that Jon Trowbridge of Google gave
 at a presentation in Paris last year. WIRED's own Thomas Goetz also
 mentioned the project in his fantastic piece of freeing dark data.
 
 One major issue with science's huge datasets is how to get them to
 Google. In this post by a SciFoo attendee over at business|bytes|genes|
 molecules, the collection plan was described:
 
 (Google people) are providing a 3TB drive array (Linux RAID5). The
 array is provided in suitcase and shipped to anyone who wants to
 send they data to Google. Anyone interested gives Google the file
 tree, and they SLURP the data off the drive. I believe they can extend
 this to a larger array (my memory says 20TB).
 
 You can check out more details on why hard drives are the preferred
 distribution method at Pimm. And we hear that Google is hunting for
 cool datasets, so if you have one, it might pay to get in touch with
 them.




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

2008-01-27 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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. Indeed, in the
 fall of 2006, Dan Glickman promised to deliver a full copy of the study
 to then Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter. As of yesterday, the staff was
 still waiting for the study.
 
 So we're now told by the MPAA: opps there are some flaws, and our 44%
 loss due to college students is only 15%. They still refuse to recognize
 the fact, as noted in the AP story below, that 80% of student live
 off-campus and use commercial internet services, bringing the number
 down to 3%. They other fascinating number in the MPAA/LEK College
 Summary slides is that claim - without giving any reasoning - that
 college students substitute 2.4 times that of average downloaders.
 Last time I checked college students had far less disposable income than
 average working stiffs. At the every least, I can't see them
 substituting 2.4 times. But even if that number were cut in half, that
 would mean the college problem amounts to 1.5% of their losses.
 
 There are several ironies at work here. First, college network
 administrators treat P2P illegal activity very seriously. Many already
 have policies and educational activities in place. Second, the MPAA has
 managed to convince the House Education Committee to put in an unfunded
 mandate in the College Accessibility and Affordability Act.
 
 Jim
 
 
 Here's the AP story:
 
 MPAA Admits Mistake on Downloading Study
 
 By JUSTIN POPE - 15 hours ago
 
 Hollywood laid much of the blame for illegal movie downloading on
 college students. Now, it says its math was wrong.
 
 In a 2005 study it commissioned, the Motion Picture Association of
 America claimed that 44 percent of the industry's domestic losses came
 from illegal downloading of movies by college students, who often have
 access to high-bandwidth networks on campus.
 
 The MPAA has used the study to pressure colleges to take tougher steps
 to prevent illegal file-sharing and to back legislation currently before
 the House of Representatives that would force them to do so.
 
 But now the MPAA, which represents the U.S. motion picture industry, has
 told education groups a human error in that survey caused it to get
 the number wrong. It now blames college students for about 15 percent of
 revenue loss.
 
 The MPAA says that's still significant, and justifies a major effort by
 colleges and universities to crack down on illegal file-sharing. But
 Mark Luker, vice president of campus IT group Educause, says it doesn't
 account for the fact that more than 80 percent of college students live
 off campus and aren't necessarily using college networks. He says 3
 percent is a more reasonable estimate for the percentage of revenue that
 might be at stake on campus networks.
 
 The 44 percent figure was used to show that if college campuses could
 somehow solve this problem on this campus, then it would make a
 tremendous difference in the business of the motion picture industry,
 Luker said. The new figures prove any solution on campus will have only
 a small impact on the industry itself.
 
 The original report, by research firm LEK, claims the U.S. motion
 picture industry lost $6.1 billion to piracy worldwide, with most of the
 losses overseas. It identified the typical movie pirate as a male aged
 16-24. MPAA said in a statement that no errors had been found in the
 study besides the percentage of revenue losses that could be attributed
 to college students, but that it would hire a third party to validate
 the numbers.
 
 We take this error very seriously and have taken strong and immediate
 action to both investigate the root cause of this problem as well as
 substantiate the accuracy of the latest report, the group said in a
 statement.
 
 Terry Hartle, vice president of the American Council on Education, which
 represents higher education in Washington, said the mistakes showed the
 entertainment industry has unfairly targeted college campuses.
 
 Illegal peer-to-peer file-sharing is a society-wide problem. Some of it
 occurs at college s and universities but it is a small portion of the
 total, he said, adding colleges will continue to take the problem
 seriously, but more regulation isn't necessary. 
 
 -Original Message-
On Behalf Of Steve Worona
 Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 7:12 AM
 To: lawfuluse at lists.publicknowledge.org
 Subject: MPAA admits its statistics are full of...u...errors
 
 For those who haven't seen it yet:
 
 http://www.pr-inside.com/group-revises-figures-on-how-much-r398676.htm
 
 and
 
 http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/01/23/mpaa
 
 So the 44% was really 15%, and it was all due to human error. So this
 means -- what? -- it wasn't the dog? But let's not be too harsh;
 remember, 

[MCN-L] adobe opensources flex

2007-05-02 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 Flex SDK and docs will be available
 through the Mozilla Public License. Adobe Flex, initially
 released in 2004 by Macromedia, and available since 2006 as a
 free SDK from Adobe, is a set of technologies to support the
 development of RIAs, web apps with the features and
 functionality that mimic traditional desktop applications.




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

2007-05-02 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 seemed to be 
agreement on less rather than more new IP regulation. 

http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=586res=1024print=0



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

2007-05-09 Thread amalyah keshet

University: Knowledge Beyond Authority
The Berkman Center's Internet  Society Conference 2007
June 1, 2007
Ames Courtroom, Harvard University Campus
Cambridge, MA

Through working groups and discussion, Internet  Society Conference 
is positioned to generate questions, insight and solutions from 
diverse perspectives across the University with a focus on the role 
of University as an institution. We seek to establish University as 
a collective force much like 'Government' or 'Private Enterprise' in 
its ability to negotiate and compromise for our needs in the digital 
environment.

We will ask how University should relate to the world of 
intellectual property with respect to what we use and what we 
produce, and how interconnected the library of University should 
be. We will consider how the corporate worlds of search and content 
might thrive by supporting networked Universities. We will 
collaboratively take on the quest for new forms of compatible 
efficiency to unleash the generative force of universities in the 
Net. Working groups include 'University Agenda for Fair Use,' 
'University and the RIAA,' and 'Alternative University Models for 
Scholarly Publications.'

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  www.musematic.net



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

2007-05-13 Thread amalyah keshet
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
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] Fw: New Position: Director, Visual Resources Collection; Univ. Delaware, Art History

2007-05-15 Thread Amalyah Keshet

- 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 Collection
 Department of Art History
 University of Delaware
 Newark, Delaware

 The Department of Art History, University of Delaware, invites 
 applications
 for a full-time Director of the Visual Resources Collection (non-tenure
 track).  We seek a dynamic leader with excellent communication skills to
 serve as Director of our Visual Resources Collection (VRC) and to act as 
 the
 liaison with the Library and Information Technologies on digital imaging.
 Salary is highly competitive and commensurate with experience.  The Visual
 Resources Collection supports an Art History faculty of 14, as well as
 related departments.  The transition from analog to digital images is in
 progress. Preferred starting date is August 15, 2007 (negotiable).

 Duties:
 The Director of the Visual Resources Collection is responsible for the
 administration, operation, and management of the VRC including image
 production, cataloging and standards compliance, metadata management;
 systems administration and planning; budget; and the training and 
 management
 of staff and work-study students. The Director works in consultation with
 Art History faculty and students and other faculty on campus; collaborates
 with other university units; and is responsible for setting long-term 
 goals
 for acquisitions and production as well as policy formulation for future
 development of visual resources.


 Qualifications:  Master's degree in Library/Information Science
 (ALA-accredited) or in Art/Architectural History and 5 years of
 progressively responsible job-related experience in an academic visual
 resources library, university or special library with an emphasis on 
 digital
 collections management. Digital asset information technology management
 experience in a complex electronic environment.  Strategic planning skills
 and ability to set priorities in development of digital visual resources.
 Effective written and oral communication skills.  Knowledge of art and
 architecture research tools and methods.  Proficiency in one foreign
 language or demonstrated foreign language skills relevant to image
 cataloguing.  Record of published scholarship, presentations to 
 professional
 groups, or service in professional organizations.  Familiarity with 
 digital
 assets management systems, practices, and applications (including image
 databases and websites); technology of digital image production, storage,
 and back-up; scanning and digital image capture best practices. 
 Experience
 training faculty and students in the use of digital resources and ability 
 to
 work with diverse campus communities.  Familiarity with issues and best
 practices regarding access and copyright in academic settings.  Experience
 with Visual Resources cataloguing practices (VRA Core, CCO, TGN, AAT) and
 relational database principles and development; VRC development and
 strategic planning; supervising collection personnel, including hiring,
 training, and managing staff; and experience in budget preparation and
 financial and facilities management.

 Facilities:
 The Visual Resources Collection houses approximately 400,000 35 mm slides 
 of
 Western and non-Western art and architecture, ancient to contemporary,
 including a significant amount of unpublished material available nowhere
 else. Digital collections are growing rapidly.  Users have access to two
 computer workstations and a digital scanner, 12 carrels, and a study room
 with projectors and reference materials.  The Collection also has hardware
 and software to assist in the production, cataloguing, storage, and
 accessing of archival digital images.  The VRC staff includes two 
 part-time
 positions (cataloguer and photographer) as well as graduate research
 assistants and undergraduate work-study students.

 Further information at:  www.udel.edu/udjobs/current/professional.html
 and at:   www.udel.edu/ArtHistory


 Application Deadline:  July 13, 2007.

 To apply:
 Send a letter of intent, curriculum vitae, and three letters of reference
 to:
 Professor Margaret Werth
 Chair, Search Committee for Director, Visual Resources Collection
 Department of Art History
 318 Old College
 University of Delaware
 Newark, DE 19716-2516
 Fax: 302 831-8243
 Email: mwerth at udel.edu


 -- 
 Christine L. Sundt
 Visual Resources
 Editor, Consultant  Educator
 P.O. Box 5316
 Eugene, OR 97405-0316 USA
 541.485.1420
 csundt(at)mindspring.com or
 csundt(at)gmail.com
 




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

2007-05-20 Thread Amalyah Keshet
- Original Message - 

Courtesy of Stanford, an unauthorized Disney cartoon mash-up primer on 
copyright and fair use. 

Well done and very cool - but Mickey is not amused...

http://voirdire.stanford.edu/program/centers/cis/fairuse/Fair(y)_Use_Tale_Stanford_Cut-stream.mp4

__


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

2007-05-23 Thread amalyah keshet

http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2007/05/18/group_defies_smithsonian_copyright_claim/


Group defies Smithsonian copyright claim

Brett Zongker
The Associated Press
May 21, 2007

Grabbing pictures of iconic Smithsonian Institution artifacts just 
got a whole lot easier.

Before, if you wanted to get a picture of the Wright Brothers' 
plane, you could go to the Smithsonian Images Web site and pay for a 
print or high-resolution image after clicking through several 
warnings about copyrights and other restrictions -- and only if you 
were a student, teacher or pledging not to use it to make money.

Now, you can just go to the free photo-sharing Web site flickr.com.
A nonprofit group is challenging the copyrights and restrictions on 
images being sold by the Smithsonian. But instead of going to court, 
the group downloaded all 6,288 photos online and posted them 
Wednesday night on the free Internet site. (more)


BTW, regarding the claim that all Smithsonian photos are in the 
public domain because they were created by government employees:
several years ago I checked this out.  Not all of their photographs 
are created by Smithsonian employees, but by for-hire 
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

2007-05-27 Thread Amalyah Keshet
Substitute the word museum for travel and you have... 


- Original Message - 

A brief announcement from Dorling Kindersley UK saying it will enable web site 
users to create personalized travel guides:

 

Visitors to the site will also be able to create their own books, featuring 
maps, travel tips and guides to local attractions. Both new features are 
expected to be introduced to the site in the next six months. The personalised 
guidebooks will be standard A5 format and printed on perfect bound, glossy 
paper. Visitors can already produce their own PDF versions of the guidebooks on 
the site, but it is hoped the glossy versions will be available within days of 
ordering and more user-friendly.

http://www.travolution.co.uk/Articles/2007/05/22/890/Dorling+Kindersley+plots+next+phase+of+online+travel.html

 

 









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

2007-12-02 Thread Amalyah Keshet
Finally, a scrap of evidence that sanity is still alive and well:





NEW YORK, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Spam Arrest LLC, a provider of software and 
services aimed at stopping email spam, on Wednesday said it won a five-year 
legal battle against Hormel Foods Corp to keep its trademark.

Spam Arrest said a three-judge panel found that Hormel's trademark does not 
extend to computer software for filtering spam.

Hormel sells Spam processed meats and sued the software maker, claiming 
dilution on the trademarked name.

Consumers are smarter than to confuse us with the source for meat called 
spam, Spam Arrest Chief Executive Brian Cartmell said in a statement. 
(Reporting by Justin Grant; Editing by David Cowell) 





And that took 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

2007-12-06 Thread Amalyah Keshet
- 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, Systems and Applications (Orlando, 
Florida, USA, on June 29th to July 2nd, 2008) 
http://www.infocybereng.org/citsa2008
Authors Notification: February 20th, 2008
Camera ready, full papers: March 11th, 2008
---

All Submitted papers will be reviewed by a double-blind (at least three 
reviewers), non-blind, and participative peer review. These three kinds of 
review will support the selection process of those that will be accepted for 
their presentation at the conference, as well as those to be selected for 
their publication in JSCI Journal. Details are given in the conference web 
site.

The registration fee of effective invited session organizers will be waived 
and they will receive at the registration desk, for free, 1) a package of 4 
DVDs and one CD containing the 6-hour tutorial Fundamentals and History of 
Cybernetics: Development of the Theory of Complex Adaptive Systems and 2) a 
second 4-DVDs/1-CD package 6-hours tutorial titled Cybernetic Management. 
The market price of each of these packages is US $ 295. Twelve more benefits 
for invited session organizers are listed at CITSA 2008 web page.

For submissions or Invited Sessions Proposals, please go to the web site: 
http://www.infocybereng.org/citsa2008/organizer.asp

Authors of the best 10%-20% of the papers presented at the conference will 
be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in the Journal of 
Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.

Each session to be included in the conference program will have 
corresponding electronic pre-conference and post-conference sessions for 15 
days each. In the electronic pre-conference sessions authors will have 
access to the papers to be presented at their session and to an associated 
electronic forum, so they can be better prepared for their conference 
face-to-face session. Similarly, electronic post-conference sessions will 
complement and support a follow-up of the respective conference sessions, 
via an electronic forum and the possibility of evaluating papers presented 
at the associated session. These evaluations will also support the selection 
process for the papers to be published in JSCI journal.


Best regards,

CITSA 2008 Secretariat  citsa2008 at mail.infocybereng.org





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

2007-12-09 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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   www.mcn.edu
Blog  www.musematic.net


- Original Message - 
From: Perian Sully psu...@magnes.org
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Digitial Image management software for Mac's


I agree, Chuck. Although I cooed over the CS2 Bridge, it's really a bit 
cumbersome and buggy. When I installed a copy of CS3 at another desk and 
explored the CS3 Bridge, I immediately requested the CS3 package for my own 
desk. It's niice. I've not played with it a lot, but I was immediately 
blown away by the amount of work they've done between those versions.

It's worth checking out.

Perian Sully
Collection Information and New Media Coordinator
Judah L. Magnes Museum
Berkeley, CA


-Original Message-
From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu on behalf of Chuck Patch
Sent: Thu 12/6/2007 11:05 AM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Digitial Image management software for Mac's

I haven't used the CS3 version, but Adobe Bridge in CS2 is an awful dog. If
you have a large number of large images in a folder (say a few hundred
ranging in size from 30MB to 80MB), it will bring all but the most powerful
machines to a halt. The single user version of Portfolio is not terribly
expensive and works with much lower resource requirements. If can also
export metadata in tab-delimited format and do batch updates of the image
file headers.

Chuck Patch


On 12/6/07, Snyder, Rebecca SNYDERR at si.edu wrote:

 Adobe Bridge would work (I personally don't know much about the others,
 but that's not to say they wouldn't work), but it you want multiple people
 to have access to the same files to run queries, etc then you will either
 have to have your files stored on a network disk that all can access from
 their individual computers, or have all who need access use a common
 computer that has both the files and the program.

 -Rebecca
 (NMNH)

 -Original Message-
 From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
 Jeff Evans

 You might like  Adobe Bridge or Canto Cumulus or Extensis Portfolio.
 All of them have demos you can download.


 On Dec 6, 2007, at 12:58 PM, Tim Atherton wrote:

  Having worked on PC's for so long, I'm somewhat out of the loop on
  Mac software and options...
 
  I'm looking for some lower end (but not bottom of the barrel) image
  management/library software that's Mac compatible.
 
  It's not going to be for a huge number of images
 
  But there are enough images that i need to be able to keep track of
  archived files, working files, exhibit projects etc etc
 
  It's also probably only going to be used by a couple of people or so
 
  I don't need something large scale that will run with multiple users
  on severs, handle hundreds of thousands of images, or produce web
  front ends etc etc, but it needs to be sophisticated enough that I
  can work with some basic metadata, run searches and keep track of
  things and so on...
 
  This will be separate from our actual collections database and the
  images as part of the catalogued in there (though those images will
  also be an incidental part of what I'm looking to use the image
  management software for)
 
  thanks
 
  tim a
 
 
  Tim Atherton
  Assistant Curator
  (Archives  Research)
  Mus?e H?ritage Museum, St. Albert
  (780) 459-1594
  tatherton at st-albert.net
 
 
 
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[MCN-L] Fw: Lightroom, Aperture, or Bridge?

2007-12-12 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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

2007-12-12 Thread Amalyah Keshet

- 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 copyright symposium. 

The theme is: (c) Monopoly: Playing the Innovation Game!
It will be held:

May 28 - 30, 2008
Inn  Conference Center
Adelphi, MD
http://umuc.edu/cip/symposium/

This two and a half day event will bring to you top copyright scholars
and legal specialist who will address some of the most burning issues
affecting the management and use of copyrighted materials. Please stay
tuned for more details. In the mean time, check out our website for
archives of previous programming- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/archive.shtml

Thank you and I hope to see you there.

-Olga
--
Olga Francois, Assistant Director
Center for Intellectual Property
University of Maryland University College
3501 University Blvd. East, PGM3-780
Adelphi, MD 20783
Phone: 240-582-2964
Fax:   240-582-2961
ofrancois at umuc.edu





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

2007-12-13 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 search requests from 
being deposited in data banks. When it's turned on, the safeguard purges a 
user's search requests from Ask.com's computers within a few hours.
 Read more: 
http://www.gigalaw.com/news/2007/12/askcoms-search-services-deletes-users.html 
(Source: USA Today)



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

2007-12-23 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 on copyright.
 http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/
 Center for Intellectual Property, UMUC

 --
 Supreme Court rules 'Shane' copyright won't come back. Daily Yomiuri
 Online/AP. December 20, 2007.
 http://tinyurl.com/2xgjdr
 
 The Supreme Court rejected Tuesday a request by two film companies that
 filed an appeal against two Tokyo production companies, including a DVD
 company, to suspend the sales of cheap DVDs of the 1953 U.S. movie
 Shane. The companies, including Paramount Pictures Corp. of the United
 States, had filed a lawsuit against the Tokyo firms over copyright
 infringement.
 
 --
 Blog: Is the ratchet really only one-way? By Georgia Harper,
 Collectanea. December 19, 2007.
 http://tinyurl.com/yqsor3
 
 I discovered a couple of papers recently that focused my attention on
 the public domain, as what's left when copyright gets through with
 protecting a work from, from, well, from what I am not sure any
 longer, but Bill Patry's piece seemed to pull things together in a way
 that compelled me to write about it allBut I also want to draw you
 attention to two papers published recently on the subject of the one-way
 ratchet, the continual lengthening of the term, the continual
 heightening of the walls of protection.
 
 --
 Blog: Copyright, Defamation, Bloggers, DMCA, Safe Harbors,
 Cease-And-Desists And Anonymity... Oh My! By Mike Masnick, Techdirt.com.
 December 19, 2007.
 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20071219/020622.shtml
 
 Well, here's a lawsuit that's got all the hot button issues going around
 these days, and yet has received very little publicity. Both Eric
 Goldman and Sam Bayard provide detailed legal breakdowns of what
 happened (and it may take a couple reads to grasp all the details), but
 let's try to summarize (some of it's good, some of it's bad).
 
 --
 Blog: The Myth Of Finding A 'Balance' In Copyright Laws. By Mike
 Masnick, Techdirt.com. December 19, 2007.
 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20071214/184433.shtml
 
 It never fails. During various battles over copyright laws, someone will
 come along and present themselves as wanting to be the moderate
 provider between the warring parties of users on one side and
 copyright holders on the other side, declaring that what's really
 needed is a good balance in copyright law that is fair to both sides.
 
 --
 XM settles copyright suit filed by Universal. By Reuters. December 18,
 2007.
 http://tinyurl.com/yt9woe
 
 XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. said Monday that it had settled a
 copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Universal Music Group and hoped
 to reach deals with other music companies. The dispute centers on XM's
 portable Inno device, which can store and record music from satellite
 radio.
 
 --
 Copyright court fight leads 2008 playlist. By Deirdre McMurdy, The
 Ottawa Citizen. December 17, 2007.
 http://tinyurl.com/2zdeo6
 
 Thousands of Canadians are likely to receive an iPod as a Christmas gift
 again this year. But what they may not realize is that a gift so small
 in size comes with a package of huge legal, financial and moral issues.
 
 --
 Facebook more than just a cool tool for kids. By Michael Geist, Toronto
 Star. December 17, 2007.
 http://www.thestar.com/columnists/article/286164
 
 If 2006 was the year of YouTube, 2007 has been Facebook's year. The
 growth of social media, led by Facebook, has taken the world by storm.
 Since January, Facebook has added 250,000 new users each day. Canadians
 have led the way, accounting for about 8 million of the site's nearly 60
 million global users.
 
 --
 Blog: CCC Seeks a New Formula With Launch of Copyright Labs. By Michael
 LoPresti, Information Today. December 17, 2007.
 http://tinyurl.com/26fhs9
 
 Ask a few chemists, mathematicians, or pastry chefs what problem-solving
 methodology they turn to when insight and theory fall short. They're
 likely to respond with a common answer. Trial and error, that age-old
 approach to puzzling out dilemmas big and small, continues to be
 employed in every laboratory, classroom, and kitchen on a daily basis.
 When Copyright Clearance Center announced the launch of Copyright Labs
 last week, it was a nod to that fact that even a nonprofit company in
 the knowledge industry stands to gain from publicly testing new
 applications to ensure that all of the wrinkles have been ironed out.
 
 --
 Elvis release pulled in copyright row. By Reuters. December 17, 2007.
 http://tinyurl.com/yr5pqp
 
 Music distributor Cargo

[MCN-L] not so anonymous

2007-12-24 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 that a team of Univ. of Texas researchers
 de-anonymized a subset of the data through correlation with public
 IMdB (internet movie database) entries.

 bruce extends this by analogy to point how easy this really is
 and he notes the obvious analogy to book purchasing habits:

 http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/12/anonymity_and_t_2.html

 Someone with access to an anonymous dataset of telephone records,
 for example, might partially de-anonymize it by correlating it
 with a catalog merchants' telephone order database. Or Amazon's
 online book reviews could be the key to partially de-anonymizing
 a public database of credit card purchases, or a larger database
 of anonymous book reviews.

 Google, with its database of users' internet searches, could
 easily de-anonymize a public database of internet purchases, or
 zero in on searches of medical terms to de-anonymize a public
 health database. Merchants who maintain detailed customer and
 purchase information could use their data to partially de-anonymize
 any large search engine's data, if it were released in an
 anonymized form. A data broker holding databases of several
 companies might be able to de-anonymize most of the records in
 those databases.

 What the University of Texas researchers demonstrate is that this
 process isn't hard, and doesn't require a lot of data. It turns out
 that if you eliminate the top 100 movies everyone watches, our
 movie-watching habits are all pretty individual. This would
 certainly hold true for our book reading habits, our internet
 shopping habits, our telephone habits and our web searching habits.




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

2007-12-02 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 the
 advertiser. Advertisers just upload their PDF files to Yahoo
 so they can be ?ad-enabled?, meaning the adverts linked to
 the document?s contents are slotted in.

 The Advs are shown in a side panel that appears in Acrobat
 Reader whenever the document?s opened, though Yahoo! hasn?t
 said if this panel can be hidden by users. We suspect not.
 It?s expected that the ads will be charged on a pay-per-click
 basis.

 Unfortunately, it?s questionable how much the advertising
 will add to the ?user experience?. Unless you actually want your monthly 
 departmental financial analysis review PDF content linked to adverts for 
 30 per cent off stationery and offers to slash the cost of your medical 
 bills.




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

2008-03-02 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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/index.html )



- Original Message - 
From: Susan Hazan sha...@netvision.net.il
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu; Museum discussion 
list MUSEUM-L at HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 4:35 PM
Subject: [MCN-L] |::| Museums ON SecondLife |::|


   |::| Museums ON SecondLife  |::|

 I am currently building an online resource of museums in Second Life.
 Please see:
 http://www.musesphere.com/Secondlife/

 If you have a favorite museum in-world please send me the SLurl
 (Second Life URL) to post online with the coordinates.
 To access the museums in Second Life make sure you have Second Life
 installed locally to go to the SLurl

 For those who would like to join in the discussion on museums in
 Second Life you may register for

 The Virtual Worlds: Libraries, Education and Museums Conference held
 in Second Life at the New Media Consortium Conference Center (NMC) on
 March 8, 2008.
 http://www.alliancelibraries.info/virtualworlds/index.htmlProgram


 With thanks
 Dr. Susan Hazan
 Jerusalem





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

2008-03-03 Thread Amalyah Keshet
I just want to see the look on the finance guy's face when he sees pay to 
the order of: ...an avatar.


- Original Message - 
From: Perian Sully psu...@magnes.org
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 9:47 PM
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] |::| Museums ON SecondLife |::|


I have to admit that I've been avoiding asking for funds until we have
 some quantifiable results from our efforts, just because I really don't
 want to try and explain to Finance how this works and which budget this
 comes out of...

 Perian Sully
 Collection Information and New 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 |::|

 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/index.html )



 - Original Message - 
 From: Susan Hazan shazan at netvision.net.il
 To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu; Museum
 discussion
 list MUSEUM-L at HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM
 Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 4:35 PM
 Subject: [MCN-L] |::| Museums ON SecondLife |::|


   |::| Museums ON SecondLife  |::|

 I am currently building an online resource of museums in Second Life.
 Please see:
 http://www.musesphere.com/Secondlife/

 If you have a favorite museum in-world please send me the SLurl
 (Second Life URL) to post online with the coordinates.
 To access the museums in Second Life make sure you have Second Life
 installed locally to go to the SLurl

 For those who would like to join in the discussion on museums in
 Second Life you may register for

 The Virtual Worlds: Libraries, Education and Museums Conference held
 in Second Life at the New Media Consortium Conference Center (NMC) on
 March 8, 2008.
 http://www.alliancelibraries.info/virtualworlds/index.htmlProgram


 With thanks
 Dr. Susan Hazan
 Jerusalem


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[MCN-L] Difficult license provisions

2008-03-06 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 provisions


I am writing an article on difficult provisions in a license
 agreement.  By that, I mean a term or condition which is either difficult 
 to
 comply with, or difficult to negotiate.  Any comments on or off list
 would be great.  Thanks.

 Lesley

 Lesley Ellen Harris
 http://copyrightlaws.com

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[MCN-L] Fw: computational photography

2008-03-10 Thread Amalyah Keshet
 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 -
 
 http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9882019-39.html?tag=nefd.lede
 
 In the last decade, photography has been transformed by one
 revolution, the near-total replacement of analog film cameras
 by digital image sensors. Now researchers and companies are
 starting to stretch their wings by taking advantage of what a
 computer can do with sensor data either within the camera or
 on a full-fledged PC.
 
 Some elements of this new era, which researchers often call
 computational photography, are refinements of existing
 technology. For example, some cameras can wait to take the
 photo only when subjects are smiling and not blinking, in
 effect placing the shutter release button in the hands of the
 subjects rather than the photographer.
 
 But more dramatic changes could shift the definition of a
 camera more dramatically. One major area of research, for
 example, uses computational processing to create a 3D
 representation of a scene rather than just the two dimensions
 of traditional photography. 

(Thanks to Peter Brantley)




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

2008-07-29 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 production
 process.
 ...
 
 If the Adobe project is widely adopted, it will have a profound
 impact on how Flash video is searched and discovered.  Right now
 there is very little text data in Flash files.  Recently YouTube
 began including voice-to-text generated metadata into some of the
 clips in the presidential campaign.




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

2008-02-03 Thread Amalyah Keshet
Important site cite, from William Patry's excellent blog, The Patry Copyright 
Blog http://williampatry.blogspot.com/:




 The Internet Library of Law and Court Decisions  
http://www.internetlibrary.com/  is an online case digest providing in-depth 
analysis of over 520 court decisions affecting those who do business on the 
Internet. As the site states:

Court decisions are organized by subject matter. The user is provided with a 
brief synopsis of the court's decision. If the decision is of interest, a link 
takes the user to a more thorough analysis. Pdfs of, or links to the full text 
of most court decisions analyzed are also provided. A free electronic 
newsletter, Internet Law Update, is available to provide users with the latest 
cases added to the Library. A full text search engine is also available to 
assist in utilizing the Library's resources.

The Internet Library has analyzed cases covering a broad array of topics, 
including trademark and copyright infringement, dilution, use of meta tags, 
links, thumbnails and framing, browse wrap, click wrap and shrink wrap 
agreements, domain name disputes, internet service provider liability, 
subpoenas, online defamation, gripe sites, the Digital Millennium Copyright 
Act, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Computer Fraud and Abuse 
Act, jurisdiction, the legality of gambling on the Internet, search engine 
advertising, licensing requirements for the operation of an online pharmacy and 
automobile distributorship, the legality of keying and cookies, use of e-mail 
in the work place, spam, the legality of pop-up ads and spyware, and First 
Amendment issues arising out of governmental regulation of the Internet, among 
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

2008-02-06 Thread Amalyah Keshet
What fun just to contemplate the copyright issues that arise here! 


 http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/across_universe.html
 NASA Beams Beatles' 'Across the Universe' Into Space
 01.31.08

 For the first time ever, NASA beamed a song -- The Beatles' Across
 the Universe -- directly into deep space at 7 p.m. EST on Feb. 4.

 The transmission over NASA's Deep Space Network commemorated the 40th
 anniversary of the day The Beatles recorded the song, as well as the
 50th anniversary of NASA's founding and the group's beginnings. Two
 other anniversaries also are being honored: The launch 50 years ago
 this week of Explorer 1, the first U.S. satellite, and the founding
 45 years ago of the Deep Space Network, an international network of
 antennas that supports missions to explore the universe.
 []


And, for those of us old enough to make the connection:
http://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

2008-02-10 Thread Amalyah Keshet
 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 Stanford Law School, where he heads up the Fair 
 Use Project, which was founded several years ago by Lawrence Lessig, 
 perhaps the law school's best-known professor. Mr. Falzone and the other 
 lawyers at the Fair Use Project are siding with the defendant, RDR Books, 
 a small book publisher based in Muskegon, Mich. As you can see from the 
 titans who have brought the suit, RDR Books needs all the legal firepower 
 it can muster.

 As you can probably also see, the case revolves around Harry Potter. J. K. 
 Rowling, of course, is the creator of the Harry Potter series -- one of 
 the most successful writers the world has ever known,  crowed Neil Blair 
 of the Christopher Little Literary Agency, which represents her. Warner 
 Brothers holds the license to the Harry Potter movies. Of the two 
 plaintiffs, though, Ms. Rowling appears to be the one driving the 
 litigation.

 I feel as though my name and my works have been hijacked, against my 
 wishes, for the personal gain and profit of others and diverted from the 
 charities I intended to benefit, she said in a declaration to the court.

 And what perfidious act of hijacking has RDR Books committed? It planned 
 to publish a book by Steven Vander Ark, who maintains a fansite called the 
 Harry Potter Lexicon. The Lexicon publishes Harry Potter essays, finds 
 Harry Potter mistakes, explains Harry Potter terminology, devises Harry 
 Potter timelines and does a thousand other things aimed at people who 
 can't get enough Harry Potter. It's a Harry Potter encyclopedia for 
 obsessive fans.

 So long as the Lexicon was a free Web site, Ms. Rowling looked kindly upon 
 it. But when Mr. Vander Ark tried to publish part of the Lexicon in book 
 form - and (shudder!) to make a profit - Ms. Rowling put her foot down. 
 She claims that she wants to publish her own encyclopedia someday and 
 donate the proceeds to charity  and a competing book by Mr. Vander Ark 
 would hurt the prospects for her own work.

 But more than that, she is essentially claiming that the decision to 
 publish - or even to allow - a Harry Potter encyclopedia is hers alone, 
 since after all, the characters in her books came out of her head. They 
 are her intellectual property. And in her view, no one else can use them 
 without her permission...

 ___




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

2008-02-11 Thread Amalyah Keshet
I had no problem registering. Try again, or contact Educause Live tech 
support (on the site.)

Amalyah


- Original Message - 
From: treit...@aol.com
To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 3:06 AM
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] IP SIG: Re: Free Webcast Friday on the Value of Fair 
Use




I couldn't register and sign onto _http://www.educause.edu/live083_
(http://www.educause.edu/live083)   to access the free webcast. Is 
membership to
educause a  prerequisite?

Barbara Treitel


In a message dated 2/10/2008 7:09:21 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
akeshet at imj.org.il writes:

By the  way, I did catch this, and it was indeed worth it.
More webcasts coming up,  and an archive of previous  ones:
http://www.educause.edu/live/

Amalyah


-  Original Message - 
From: akes...@imj.org.il
To:  mcn-l at mcn.edu
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 6:46 PM
Subject:  [MCN-L] IP SIG: 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  Webcast Friday on the value of Fair Use


 My next  EDUCAUSE Live! Webcast features Matt Schruers, Senior Council for
  Litigation and Legislative Affairs with the Computer and Communications
 Industry Association, speaking on Copyright Fair Use and the  Economy.
 1-2pm Eastern Time, Friday, Feb. 1. No charge, but  registration required
 at http://www.educause.edu/live083.  Summary:


 The copyright legislative process in  Washington traditionally focuses on
 increasing the protection  provided to copyrights, based on the assumption
 that this will  strengthen the economy. Recent research, however, 
 indicates
 that  exceptions to copyright protection also promote innovation and are a
  major catalyst of U.S. economic growth. Specific exceptions to copyright
 protection under U.S. and international law, generally classified  under
 the broad heading of fair use, are vital to many industries and  stimulate
 growth across the economy. In fact, business enterprises  that benefit 
 from
 fair use generate substantial revenue, employ  millions of workers, and, 
 in
 2006, represented one-sixth of total  U.S. gross domestic product. This
 economic research suggests that  future copyright legislation needs to
 account for these important  limitations if the policy-making process is 
 to
 stimulate  growth.


 All EDUCAUSE Live! Webcasts are archived for  later (re)viewing.

 See you Friday.

  Steve
 --
 Steven L. Worona
 Director of Policy and  Networking Programs
 EDUCAUSE / 1150 18th St. NW suite 1010 /  Washington, DC 20036
 202-872-4200 x 5358 / 202-872-4318 fax /  sworona at educause.edu

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(http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp00300025
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[MCN-L] IP SIG: Copyright Symposium, University of Maryland, May 29-30, 2008

2008-02-21 Thread Amalyah Keshet
- 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.
 http://www.umuc.edu/CIP2008/

Are you stuck on your next move? Join the Center for Intellectual
Property, a trusted source of accessible professional development
programming, and learn how to create a winning strategy for managing
your creations and the use of third party copyrighted works. Sit down
with noted scholars and practitioners exploring the relationship between
the U.S. copyright monopoly, technological innovation and higher
education institutions. 

Programming highlights include:

Meet Some of the Players-
James Boyle, Georgia Harper, Gigi Sohn, Patrick Ross, Lolly Gasaway, and
many, many more! http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/speakers.shtml

Honing Your Skills-
Check out one of the intensive pre-conferences: Public Domain  Fair Use
or Copyright 101 http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/preconference.shtml

The Hottest Game of the Season-
Sign up for the new management track: Institute for Copyright 
Leadership Management (ICLM)
http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/institute.shtml

We urge you to check out the website for more information on this year's
exciting events, including: Game Night, our Opening Night reception,
focused roundtables  the Re-mix Contest. TO register for the 2008
Symposium see http://tinyurl.com/ypg33b


- - 2008 Institute for Copyright Leadership  Management (ICLM) - -

In addition to the full symposium agenda, the Center for Intellectual
Property (CIP) has partnered with the National Leadership Institute
(NLI) to bring to you a unique program that promises to meet the needs
of many institutions struggling to better manage the changes in
copyright law. The goal of the Institute is to increase participants'
capacity for change management and to lead copyright initiatives on
their campuses.

Register today to take advantage of the early bird rates. Please see the
site for logistics  ICLM Team Discounts! 

To join the ICLM Symposium cohort or register for the symposium:
http://tinyurl.com/ypg33b

--
Olga Francois, Assistant Director
Center for Intellectual Property
University of Maryland University College
3501 University Blvd. East, PGM3-780
Adelphi, MD 20783
Phone: 240-582-2803
Fax:   240-582-2961
http://www.umuc.edu/CIP2008/




[MCN-L] Fw: Lessig for Congress!

2008-02-21 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 population and would be the
 ideal place for a Lessig candidacy.

 To convince Prof. Lessig that support exists for his run, we are trying
 to sign up 1000 donors by the end of this week.  You can contribute
 here:  http://actblue.com/page/lessig

 (if he elects not to run, the donations go to Creative Commons, so it's
 a no-lose proposition).

 You can find more information here:  www.draftlessig.org  and here 
 www.lessig08.org

 This is an extraordinary opportunity for our community to make its voice
 heard in Washington.  Let's make it happen!




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

2007-09-05 Thread Amalyah Keshet



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!

Sep 7: Clifford LYNCH: Authorship and Identity.
In this talk, I'll look at various developments in scholarly
communication (citation indexing, web statistics gathering, preprint
archives); in identity management; and in name authority control.
My fundamental thesis will be that there is an opportunity to begin
to deliberately and systematically relate and potentially converge
developments in these different areas; I'll lead a discussion of
the issues and actors that might be involved in doing so.




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

2007-09-06 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 month. Mr. Ovalle is a full time
member of the technology staff and a lecturer at the University of Texas
at Austin School of Information. Along with CIP scholar, Georgia Harper
the monthly guest bloggers continue to bring thoughtful perspectives on
up to the minute happenings in the copyright arena.

Visit the (c)ollectanea blog today, tomorrow or take advantage of the
RSS feed!  http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/

--
Olga Francois, Assistant Director
Center for Intellectual Property
University of Maryland University College
3501 University Blvd. East, PGM3-780
Adelphi, MD 20783
Phone: 240-582-2964
Fax:   240-582-2961
ofrancois at umuc.edu
(C)ollectanea Blog:
http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/


[MCN-L] IP SIG: In The News

2007-09-11 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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, September 09 2007
 http://tinyurl.com/28yyv3
 
 Ithaca, NY - Copyright law was conceived when only a few people had the
 ability to mass-produce intellectual property. Computers and the
 Internet, however, have opened a whole new can of worms, allowing almost
 anyone to copy almost anything and distribute it widely. Instead of
 relying on the enforcement of copyright laws, more and more industries
 are relying on such technologies as encryption to protect their
 content.
 -
 
 Press Release: SPARC letter to members on the PRISM anti-open access
 effort
 Date: September 6, 2007
 To: SPARC Members
 From: Heather Joseph, SPARC Executive Director
 Re: PRISM anti-open access effort
 http://www.arl.org/sparc/advocacy/07-0907prism.html
 
 I'm writing to bring to your attention the recent launch of an
 anti-open access lobbying effort. The initiative, called PRISM - the
 Partnership for Research Integrity in Science and Medicine (
 http://www.prismcoalition.org), was launched with development support
 from the Association of American Publishers and specifically targets
 efforts to expand public access to federally funded research results -
 including the National Institute of Health's Public Access Policy.
 -
 
 Blog: The rhetoric of fair use
 by Carlos Ovalle, (c)ollectanea Blog, September 7, 2007
 http://tinyurl.com/ynvbok
 
 Here's one of the subjects I've mentioned in a few places in action:
 the rhetoric of fair use. The technology trade group Computer 
 Communications Industry Association (CCIA) recently filed a complaint
 with the FTC regarding the misleading and overreaching copyright
 warnings that appear during sports events, on DVDs and books, and other
 places.
 
 
 Blog: US court rules that free speech trumps copyright (sometimes)
 by Cory Doctorow, boing-boing, September 5, 2007
 http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/05/us-court-rules-that.html
 
 A major copyright victory -- the Tenth Circuit court has ruled in favor
 of Larry Lessig, et al, in Golan v. Gonzales, a case about the scope of
 fair use. The court has acknowledged that First Amendment freedoms must
 be considered when copyright law is made.
 -
 
 Japan: Artists and Right Holders to Build Search Site for Copyright
 Information
 By Keita Mochizuki, Tech-On!, Sep 04, 2007
 http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20070904/138725/
 
 It was revealed in a press conference Aug. 31, 2007, that a group of
 artists and right holders organizations in Japan will construct a Web
 site that will enable searches of copyright information on literature,
 photos and music via the Internet, targeting January 2009.
 -
 
 The First Close Look at Colleges' Digital Pirates
 by BROCK READ, Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 September 2007
 (subscription required)
 http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i02/02a00102.htm
 
 Ms. Elzy and Mr. Arbogast wanted financial support from the industry,
 and they got it. The Digital Citizen Project, as Illinois State calls
 it, has benefited from considerable entertainment-industry financing,
 including an influx ofseveral hundred thousand dollars that came shortly
 after the meeting. . Later, Illinois State secured promises that the
 information the university collects will not be used to prosecute
 students.
 
 ==




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

2007-09-16 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 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: Economic study of Fair Use: summary

2007-09-16 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 Economy Represents One-Sixth of U.S. GDP

Sep 12, 2007

WASHINGTON D.C. - Fair Use exceptions to U.S. copyright laws are
responsible for more than $4.5 trillion in annual revenue for the United

States, according to the findings of an unprecedented economic study
released today. According to the study commissioned by the Computer and
Communications Industry Association (CCIA) and conducted in accordance
with a World Intellectual Property Organization methodology, companies
benefiting from limitations on copyright-holders' exclusive rights, such
as fair use - generate substantial revenue, employ millions of
workers, and, in 2006, represented one-sixth of total U.S. GDP.

The exhaustive report, released today at a briefing on Capitol Hill,
quantifies for the first time ever the critical contributions of fair
use to the U.S. economy. The timing proves particularly important as the

debates over copyright law in the digital age move increasingly to
center stage on Capitol Hill. As the report summarizes, in the past
twenty years as digital technology has increased, so too has the
importance of fair use. With more than $4.5 trillion in revenue
generated by fair use dependent industries in 2006, a 31% increase since

2002, fair use industries are directly responsible for more than 18% of
U.S. economic growth and nearly 11 million American jobs. In fact,
nearly one out of every eight American jobs is in an industry that
benefits from current limitations on copyright.

As the United States economy becomes increasingly knowledge-based, the
concept of fair use can no longer be discussed and legislated in the
abstract. It is the very foundation of the digital age and a cornerstone

of our economy, said Ed Black, President and CEO of CCIA. Much of the
unprecedented economic growth of the past ten years can actually be
credited to the doctrine of fair use, as the Internet itself depends on
the ability to use content in a limited and nonlicensed manner. To stay
on the edge of innovation and productivity, we must keep fair use as one
of the cornerstones for creativity, innovation and, as today's study
indicates, an engine for growth for our country

The Fair Use exception to U.S. copyright law, as codified in Section 107
of the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976 states, The fair use of a copyrighted
work ... is not an infringement of copyright. Fair use permits a range
of activities that are critical to many high technology businesses such as
search engines and software developmers. As the study indicates,
however, fair use and related exceptions to copyright are crucial to
non-technology industries as well, such as insurance, legal services,
and newspaper publishers. The dependence of industries outside the
high-tech field illustrates the crucial need for balanced copyright law.

-- 
Mike Palmedo
Research Coordinator
Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property
American University, Washington College of Law
4910 Massachutsetts Ave., NW Washington, DC 20016
T - 202-274-4442 | F 202-274-0659
mpalmedo at wcl.american.edu



For immediate release
September 12, 2007

Public Knowledge Praises Results of CCIA Economic Study on Fair Use

The Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) today released 
the first major study showing that the sectors of the economy that depend on 
the fair use of copyrighted material make a significant contribution to 
the U.S. economy. The study is at http://www.ccianet.org.

The following statement is attributed to Gigi B. Sohn, president and 
co-founder of Public Knowledge:

CCIA should be congratulated for sponsoring this significant project.  For 
years, the copyright industries have made their case for restricting the 
rights of consumers based on the argument that their industry makes a 
significant contribution to the economy that could be jeopardized by fair 
use rights.

The results are telling.  While the content industries claim employment of 
11.3 million workers in 2005, the CCIA study found industries depending on 
fair use employed 17.3 million people in 2006.  While the copyright 
industries claim to have generated $1.3 trillion (or 11.2% of Gross Domestic 
Product), the CCIA study found that fair-use industries generated $2.2 
trillion in 2006.

This report should guide policymakers and others who want to tilt further 
the copyright laws away from a reasonable balance between creators on the 
one hand and consumers and innovators on the other.  The report presents a 
clear case that the harm to the economy could be more significant than 
previously thought by following a radical content industry policy that 
diminishes legitimate lawful use of copyrighted material.

[MCN-L] New York Times To Close TimesSelect

2007-09-18 Thread Amalyah Keshet
New York Times To Close TimesSelect Effective Midnight Tuesday; Will Open Last 
20 Years Of Archives

As an ex-pat whose survival and sanity are directly dependent upon full, free 
access to the New York Times, 
I can only squeal, Yes!   The economics of full, free search have triumphed.


http://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 SIG   www.mcn.edu
Blog  www.musematic.net 





[MCN-L] :-)

2007-09-19 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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:



Today's Headline - New Hieroglyph Discovered in Egyptian Pyramid

And in recent new today a new Hieroglyph has been discovered with the Great 
Pyramid of Giza. The symbol appears to consist of two vertically adjacent 
circles and a single curve segment whose curvature is oriented such that the 2 
circles appear to be near the center of the circle that would be formed were 
the curve's slope extended out. Our man on the scene has provided us with a 
crude sketch of this Hieroglyph, whose meaning is unknown but which is 
suspected to be related to one of the primary emotions humans have experienced 
since the dawn of time.

: ) Note how the segment appears to be a piece of a general circle center on 
the 2 dots. Why a segment of a circle was chosen,
^ Rather than the full circle itself, and why it is centered on the dots, is 
currently unknown
Also Note how the two circles are placed one directly over the other. Most 
other Hieroglyphs have utilized slight angles, generally sloping inwards, so 
this discovery may help understand a great many things that are currently 
unknown about Egyptian society

This has been Faux News' Archeology Department. Stay tuned for the weather.

(posted by Jarjarthejedi (996957) .bookreader13. .at. .cox.net.  



[MCN-L] XML meets Emoticon

2007-09-19 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 outdated technology of emoticons to 
denote humorous sentiments in email and online postings. Some have historically 
proposed the use of a sarcasm tag littered among ordinary text to convey the 
sarcastic emotion more accurately. I propose going one step further, and am 
proposing the Humour-XML standard, which will provide a much richer way to 
fully denote sentiments on the web. For instance, consider the sarcastic 
exprssion: 

I'll get right on that ;-) 


Even in this simple expression, the smiley face does not convey enough 
information to the reader to properly discern the mood of the poster. It is 
left ambiguous whether the poster is completely sarcastic, and will not get 
right on that, or if the poster was merely in a humorous mood and implying 
that they will get right on that in a cheerful way. This failure to 
communicate is costing the American economy untold billions in lost 
productivity, rivaling that of sick days and movie piracy. The following is a 
rough draft of an XML standard I am proposing to completely eliminate our 
dependence on this obsolete form of communication. 

I propose a full XML schema devoted to conveying emotion in email, web 
postings, and Usenet flame messages. For instance, the previous message would 
be written in Humour-XML as: 

?xml version=1.0? 
posting 
message mood=sarcastic level=highly I'll get right on that smiley 
deprecated=yes symbol=;-) / 
/message 
/posting 


The message now contains no ambiguities ? the reader understands that the 
poster is highly sarcastic , and does not actually intend to get right on 
that 

The Humour-XML schema provides numerous benefits to users such as: enhanced 
text-to-speech renderings of postings (the speaker's voice could convey 
emotion, etc.), backwards compatibility with obsolete emoticons, UTF-8 support, 
building the Semantic Web from the ground up, and other benefits too numerous 
to enumerate here. Without extolling the virtues of this fantastic language too 
greatly, I'll touch on one more gold mine of usability: using XSLT 
[wikipedia.org] to transfrom Humour-XML to other forms, such as emoticon-text 
or even SVG graphics. For instance, we can define an XSLT stylesheet like so: 

?xml version=1.0 ? 
xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform; version=1.0 
xsl:output method=xml indent=yes/ 


xsl:template match=posting 
emoticon_text xsl:apply-templates/ /emoticon_text
/xsl:template 

xsl:template match=message
xsl:copy xsl:apply-templates /xsl:copy 
/xsl:template
xsl:template match=message
xsl:text xsl:value-of select=symbol / /xsl:text 
/xsl:template
/xsl:stylesheet


The example XSLT spreadsheet provided here should provide posters eager to try 
this amazing technology a head-start. I am in the process of carefully 
constructing a DTD for Humour-XML, as well as several more very useful XSLT 
stylesheets. I hereby disclaim all patents on said technology, and promise that 
Humour-XML is free for the world to use royalty-free, forever. 

by schmiddy (599730) `moc.liamg' `ta' `yddimhcs' on Tuesday September 18, 
@08:59PM (#20662575) 
(http://slashdot.org/) 
http://slashdot.org/articles/07/09/18/2313232.shtml



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

2007-09-23 Thread Amalyah Keshet
Moral rights case of interest:


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/22/arts/design/22moca.html

A federal judge ruled yesterday that the Massachusetts Museum of 
Contemporary Art has the right to display an immense unfinished installation 
by Christoph B?chel, a Swiss artist whose relationship with the museum fell 
apart early this year, leading to a bitter public battle over control of the 
work and over artists' rights in general.
The judge, Michael A. Ponsor, in Federal District Court in Springfield, 
Mass., said that the museum's display of the work would not, as Mr. B?chel 
argued, violate 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 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: Fw: Costs of Copyright Confusion - American Univ. TODAY

2007-09-25 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 on the campus of American University in Washington DC where we release 
the report of our research on copyright, fair use and media literacy education. 
 

* * * * * * * * * * *

Confused about copyright? You are not alone.

Media literacy educators rely on the ability to use copyrighted materials in 
their teaching. But ignorance about copyright (and particularly a lack of 
awareness of the fair use provision) is interfering with the ability to teach 
important critical thinking and communication skills to promote digital 
learning.

Please join Professors Renee Hobbs of Temple University, Peter Jaszi of the 
Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University 
Washington College of Law and Pat Aufderheide of the Center for Social Media in 
the School of Communication at American University on Tuesday, September 25, 
for the release of their report, The Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media 
Literacy. The event starts at 2pm, followed by a reception.

Participants include will include high school teachers affected by copyright 
regulations, representatives from the media literacy movement, and leading 
legal scholars in the area of copyright, fair use, and education. Panelists 
will explore such issues as:

  a.. What do teachers know (and do not know) about copyright? 
  b.. How does copyright confusion limit the quality of student learning? 
  c.. What are effective solutions to this problem? 

Who: Pat Aufderheide will moderate the event. A panel of scholars, including 
Hobbs, Jaszi, and Kenneth Crews, a legal scholar at Indiana University School 
of Law-Indianapolis and author of Copyright Law for Librarians and Educators, 
will discuss the findings of the report. Following the panel, the following 
people will discuss the meaning of the report for their organizations and work:

  a.. Dale Allender, Director, National Council of Teachers of English 
(NCTE)-West, the leading professional membership organization for English 
language arts educators. 
  b.. Shay Taylor, media teacher at Montgomery Blair High School, Silver 
Spring, Maryland. 
  c.. Karen Zill, on the board of directors of the Alliance for a Media 
Literate America (AMLA), the national membership organization for media 
literacy 

We look forward to seeing you there and chatting with you at the reception!

Where: American University, Washington College of Law, Room 603
4801 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington DC 
Driving Directions and Parking information available at: 
http://www.wcl.american.edu/direction/driving.cfm

When: Tuesday, September 25, 2:00 p.m. Reception to follow.

The event will be webcast at http://www.wcl.american.edu/go/medialit

Registration is appreciated to assist us estimate attendance for purposes of 
ordering refreshments, but is not required to attend. To register, visit, 
http://www.wcl.american.edu/secle/cle_form.cfm
or
email:  pijip at wcl.american.edu











[MCN-L] Fw: In The News

2007-09-25 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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: US copyright official loves DMCA but admits she's not tech savvy.
 AfterDawn.com, September 18, 2007.
 http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/11154.cfm

 After reading statements made by U.S. Register of Copyrights Marybeth
 Peters it shouldn't surprise anyone to find out that she's a self
 described luddite who doesn't even have a computer at home. Short of
 being in a coma since the law went into effect in 1998, that's the only
 explanation for saying I think it did what it was supposed to do,
 which is what she recently told an audience at the Future of Music
 Policy Summit.

 -
 Blog: Values of Fair Use. By Carlos Ovalle, Collectanea Blog, September
 18, 2007.
 http://tinyurl.com/2a7pms

 Georgia earlier reported on the CCIA study describing the economic value
 of fair use. That study and responses to that study have shed light on a
 few areas.

 -
 Times to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site. By Richard Perez-Pena,
 New York Times, September 18, 2007.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html

 The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web
 site, effective at midnight tonight. In addition to opening the entire
 site to all readers, The Times will also make available its archives
 from 1987 to the present without charge, as well as those from 1851 to
 1922, which are in the public domain. There will be charges for some
 material from the period 1923 to 1986, and some will be free.

 -
 Blog: Debating the Future of Music. By Rob Pegoraro, Washington Post,
 September 18, 2007.
 http://tinyurl.com/29lu6q

 I spent most of Monday in an auditorium at George Washington University,
 attending the Future of Music Coalition's annual policy summit. This
 gathering is meant to give musicians--as opposed to the recording
 industry at large--a chance to mull over the state of the business.

 -
 Nintendo Sues Korean Web Sites Over Copyright. The Korea Times,
 September 17, 2007.
 http://tinyurl.com/3xx8mt

 The Korean unit of Japan's game console maker Nintendo Co. said Monday
 that it has taken a legal action against those who allegedly violated
 its copyright for game software through Internet Web sites in South
 Korea. Nintendo Korea said that it filed a suit with the Supreme
 Prosecutors' Office in Seoul against an unidentified number of users who
 it claims uploaded copied Nintendo software on peer-to-peer file-sharing
 or Webhard sites.

 -
 Blog: This just in... Libraries and library organizations ask Copyright
 Office to free the registration database. By Georgia Harper, Collectanea
 Blog, September 17, 2007.
 http://tinyurl.com/27a452

 Peter Brantley and Carl Malamud have just asked the Copyright Office to
 make its retrospective database of registrations of copyright freely
 available to the public.

 -
 A call for Net neutrality debate in U.K. By David Meyer, CNET News.com,
 September 17, 2007.
 http://www.news.com/2100-1028_3-6208405.html

 The time has come for the United Kingdom to join the growing debate
 surrounding Net neutrality, the president of the British Computer
 Society told ZDNet UK. Professor Nigel Shadbolt said late last week
 that, because so much of the Internet's content is derived from the
 U.S., the U.K. and Europe would be affected by any Net
 neutrality-related decisions made across the Atlantic.

 -
 Ad-supported music site SpiralFrog launches Monday, offers free music
 and video downloads. SiliconValley.com/Associated Press, September 17,
 2007.
 http://tinyurl.com/yqwkpm

 SpiralFrog.com, an ad-supported Web site that allows visitors to
 download music and videos free of charge, was scheduled to launch Monday
 in the U.S. and Canada after months of beta testing. The music
 service, which has arranged to pay record companies a cut of its
 advertising revenue, aims to lure music fans who normally flock to
 online file-swapping networks to share and download music for free. The
 recording industry has sued thousands of computer users for doing so in
 recent years.

 -
 VW 'Nazi' Subpoena Points Up YouTube Privacy Risks. By David Kravets,
 Wired.com, September 17, 2007.
 http://tinyurl.com/2uw9vm

 A legal spat between YouTube and Volkswagen is throwing light on the
 increasing copyright surveillance of social networking sites. Volkswagen
 has filed a subpoena seeking the identity of a YouTube user who posted a
 Nazi-themed parody of a recent VW Golf commercial. Volkswagen's move
 underscores the privacy risks to a blossoming community of users on
 sites like YouTube and Yahoo Video, and social-networking sites like
 Facebook and MySpace.

 -
 CRIA about-face on iPod levies tied to concerns over

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

2007-03-01 Thread Amalyah Keshet
More from the Washington Post on the Fair Use bill:


  Digital 'Fair Use' Bill Introduced In Congress
  By Frank Ahrens, Washington Post, February 27, 2007
  
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/02/digital_fair_use_bill_introduc.html?nav=rss_blog
  Today, Reps. Rich Boucher (D-Va.) and John Dolittle (R-Calif.)
  introduced what they call the Freedom and Innovation Revitalizing U.S.
  Entrepreneurship (or FAIR USE) Act they say will make it easier for
  digital media consumers to use the content they buy.


I have to confess that I was struck by the clumsiness of the name 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

2007-03-14 Thread Amalyah Keshet
 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 General Alberto R.
 Gonzales, all discussing in the news? Copyright! Come and join the
 Center for Intellectual Property as we discuss the future of copyright.
 
 Copyright Utopia:
 Alternative Visions, Methods  Policies
 May 21-23, 2007
 UMUC Inn  Conference Center, Adelphi, Maryland
 http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/
 
 Will the efforts of organizations like Creative Commons create a more
 effective and efficient method for managing copyrighted works? Is
 licensing the only alternative to copyright? Should alternative methods
 work within the current legal structure? What would your copyright
 utopia look like?... Will your copyright future be Orwellian, live
 within the copyright Matrix, or be a Brave New World?
 
 This year's symposium promises to be very thought provoking. Join noted
 scholars and practitioners as they discuss the current state of
 copyright nationally and internationally. The Pre-Conferences will
 include:
 
 Copyright 101
 Kenneth Crews, Professor, Associate Dean and Director, Copyright
 Management Center, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
 (IUPUI). A refresher class for those who want a solid overview of the
 issues or a basic introduction to the topic for those who may be new to
 the field. Topics covered: basic definitions and concepts; legislative
 framework; guidelines; ownership, access, and use.
 
 E-Reserves Policy and Implementation
 Donna Ferullo, Director, University Copyright Office, Purdue University.
 An opportunity for everyone to probe more deeply into the complex
 questions of ownership, access, and use that surround the growing
 movement to digitize and make available ever increasing amounts of
 content.
 
 Full Agenda:
 http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/agenda.shtml
 
 Additional panelist  presenters:
 http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/speakers.shtml
 
 Registration Form:
 https://nighthawk.umuc.edu/CIPReg.nsf/Application?OpenForm
 
 Register today to take advantage of the early bird rates before it is
 too late! See the site for logistics  specials from our travel
 partners.
 
 Interested in winning a free registration  lodging for the 2007
 symposium? Consider entering our first contest, (c)Utopia Imagine That!
 For contest details please see
 http://www.umuc.edu/cip/symposium/contest.
 
 --
 Olga Francois, Assistant Director
 Center for Intellectual Property
 University of Maryland University College
 3501 University Blvd. East, PGM3-780
 Adelphi, MD 20783
 Phone: 240-582-2803
 Fax:   240-582-2961
 http://www.umuc.edu/cip/




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

2007-03-01 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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-L at LISTSERV.COLLEGEART.ORG
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 5:26 PM
Subject: [MCN-L] Boucher-Dolittle Fair Use Act introduced (HR 1201)


 From the digital-copyright list, citation of a Washington Post
 report on the Boucher-Dolittle Fair Use Act or HR 1201 the Freedom
 and Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship Act, designed to
 remedy some of the excesses of the DMCA.

 Some see this as a watered-down version of Boucher's earlier DMCRA
 that failed due to vociferous opposition  by the content industry.
 See especially he ars technica piece at 
 http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070227-8934.html



 Begin forwarded message:

 From: Olga Francois OFrancois at umuc.edu
 Date: February 28, 2007 9:31:52 AM EST
 To: digital-copyright at lists.umuc.edu
 Subject: In The News

 --

 Digital 'Fair Use' Bill Introduced In Congress
 By Frank Ahrens, Washington Post, February 27, 2007
 http://blog.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2007/02/
 digital_fair_use_bill_in
 troduc.html?nav=rss_blog

 Today, Reps. Rich Boucher (D-Va.) and John Dolittle (R-Calif.)
 introduced what they call the Freedom and Innovation Revitalizing
 U.S.
 Entrepreneurship (or FAIR USE) Act they say will make it easier for
 digital media consumers to use the content they buy.
 






 David Green
 Knowledge Culture
 203.345.3228
 www.knowledgeculture.com
 davidgreen at knowledgeculture.com



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[MCN-L] Creative Commons

2007-07-08 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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.



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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] WebWise 2007 proceedings available

2007-07-14 Thread amalyah keshet
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 Age:  Managing Museum and Library
Collections for Preservation and Use held in Washington, DC
February 28 - March 2, 2007

Conference proceedings are now available online at
http://www.imls.gov/pdf/WebWiseProceedings2007.pdf.



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

2007-07-15 Thread Amalyah Keshet
Economist calculates optimum term of copyright: 14 years 

Rufus Pollock, a PhD candidate in economics at Cambridge University, has just 
released Forever Minus a Day? Some Theory and Empirics of Optimal Copyright, 
a brilliant new paper on the economically optimal term of copyright. He's 
presenting it in Berlin this week, but it's already online. Here's the 
abstract: 

 

The optimal level for copyright has been a matter for extensive debate over the 
last decade. This paper contributes several new results on this issue divided 
into two parts. In the first, a parsimonious theoretical model is used to prove 
several novel propositions about the optimal level of protection. Specifically, 
we demonstrate that (a) optimal copyright falls as the costs of production go 
down (for example as a result of digitization) and that (b) the optimal level 
of copyright will, in general, fall over time. The second part of the paper 
focuses on the specific case of copyright term. Using a simple model we 
characterise optimal term as a function of a few key parameters. We estimate 
this function using a combination of new and existing data on recordings and 
books and find an optimal term of around fourteen years. This is substantially 
shorter than any current copyright term and implies that existing copyright 
terms are too long. 

posted by Cory Doctorow on July 12, 2007, 07:22 AM 


http://www.boingboing.net/2007/07/12/economist_calculates.html



And a link to the full paper:

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

2007-01-22 Thread Amalyah Keshet
Richard:

At first glance, the article contains quite a few mistakes regarding legal 
issues.  
Example:  When we absolve curators of responsibility for defending our fair 
use rights...   Well, we do NOT have a fair use right to photograph, without 
the artist's permission, works protected by copyright -- wherever they are 
displayed -- except for certain very limited purposes, and property, privacy, 
and contract law may indeed preempt that.  Only a court of law can determine 
whether the purpose of the photography was fair use or not. (And it could be 
argued that a curator's repsonsibility is to keep his or her museum away from 
courts of law.)

Yes, that's the problem with the fair use concept as currently expressed in the 
US copyright code, but that's another article altogether -- one that should be 
written by someone who does their legal research a lot better.

While I sympathize with the fair use spirit of the article, one has to get 
one's facts right in order to make a decent argument for ...anything.

I'm off to London for a museums copyright conference at the National Gallery: 
Connecting Culture and Commerce: Getting the Right Balance  
http://www.kdcs.kcl.ac.uk/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, Jerusalem  akeshet at imj.org.il
Chair, MCN IP SIG   www.mcn.edu
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 LACMA's Magritte exhibit: This is not fair use
 http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/21/lacmas_magritte_exhi.html
 
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[MCN-L] Fw: virtual worlds summit

2007-08-19 Thread Amalyah Keshet
Of probable interest to the virtual insurrectionists among us:




there was a one day summit at the hewlett foundation on
virtual worlds for insurrection and revolution in
education.  other participants included fed. of amer.
scientists, kauffman foundation, mellon foundation,
nsf, nasa, darpa, isi, and many other notables.

From the live blogging secretary -

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/08/virtual_worlds.html






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

2007-08-28 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 




Lawmaker proposes piracy warning
By DAVE MCNARY, BEN FRITZ

A leading lawmaker will propose federal legislation requiring telcos  
and cable operators to send Internet subscribers a warning letter if  
they access pirated content.
Rep. Howard Berman (D-Los Angeles) disclosed Thursday at a U.S.  
Chamber of Commerce antipiracy panel in Hollywood that he'll  
introduce the legislation as early as next month.
If enacted, it would mark a significant change in federal law by  
making Internet service providers responsible for piracy on their  
networks, not just those who download or share the content.
Berman, speaking at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, indicated that  
under the legislation there would be a phase-in period for ISPs to  
notify subscribers. Initially, it would be a voluntary program, he  
added.
Berman indicated he'd introduce the bill with Rep. John Conyers (D- 
Mich.) through the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the  
Internet and Intellectual Property.
Berman, a 13-term member of Congress whose district includes  
Hollywood, said the legislation will be part of a broader bill to  
strengthen anticounterfeiting efforts. It will require that federal  
agents enforce intellectual property violations by Internet service  
providers, mandate interagency cooperation and initiate the use of  
international attaches to provide information.
Thursday's panel culminated four days of events in Los Angeles  
designed to raise awareness of and build support for anti-piracy  
efforts. Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Los Angeles) cited a recent study by  
the Los Angeles Economic Development Corp. showing that piracy causes  
$5.2 billion in annual economic losses -- over half of that to the  
motion picture business.
The Chamber also sponsored an event at the Chinese Theater to  
demonstrate infrared technology employed to spot illegal camcording  
in theaters. Andrews Intl. VP Andrew Lamprey said studios are  
currently using his firm's security services on as many as 300  
screenings per week.

Read the full article at:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117970777.html
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[MCN-L] interesting facebook response

2007-08-30 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 11:54 PM
  Subject: [MCN-L] interesting facebook response


  Folks,

  I know there's been discussion here about museums' use of facebook  
  and the rule that institutions are not allowed to have generic  
  institutional facebook pages ala MySpace.  I received this email via  
  a creativity listserv and found it interesting, both because a. it  
  sounds like Facebook may be loosening its restrictions and b. at  
  least one Facebook user isn't happy about it.

  Nina Simon
  www.museumtwo.com

  Begin forwarded message:

   From: Janine Carmona punkquaker at yahoo.com
   Date: August 29, 2007 11:02:02 AM PDT
   To: idc at mailman.thing.net
   Subject: [iDC] My Facebook Note RE WalMart's Ad on Facebook
  
   Hello! Matt Waxman suggested I forward my note to this address. Use  
   it well.
   -Janine
  
   Facebook Needs to Get its Priorites Straight
   By Janine Carmona
   5:48pm Wednesday, Aug 22
  
   This is a letter to my fellow students and users of Facebook.
  
   I was alarmed today when I came across a group on Facebook  
   sponsored by WalMart trying to sell me crap for my dorm room.
  
   This is the first such blatantly corporate advertisements on  
   Facebook I have run across.
  
   No matter what you think of WalMart as a company (and there are  
   many who think that their business practices are disgusting and  
   harmful: http://walmartwatch.com/) you should note that Facebook is  
   a social networking site that defines itself as a place for people  
   to connect with those who live and work around them. This does not  
   include faceless advertisers. The WalMart group is not a person to  
   network with, to share stories and pictures with or to talk to- it  
   is a portal to get us to buy stuff.
  
   WalMart doesn't have a face to book and neither do any of the  
   other corporations that get advertising time from Facebook. I am  
   tired of corporations invading one of the only Internet spaces left  
   that are not simply trying to get their hands on my money.
  
   In lieu of noting this Facebook should use these simple guidelines  
   to keep me from deleting my account and moving over to the myriad  
   of social networking sites that have not sold out:
  
   1. Corporations are not individuals, they cannot network and  
   should not have access to the human beings who use Facebook, their  
   contact information, or their time.
  
   2. Facebook should seriously consider the human rights and business  
   practices of a potential advertiser. At least post a warning that  
   there have been problems with these instead of bowing down to  
   whoever has the money. It's a bit demeaning, no?
  
   3. I'm not saying individuals who like WalMart should have no say  
   here, hell, -actual- users should make all the I Love WalMart  
   groups they want. Let's just make sure the people making groups are  
   actually people, shall we? Free speech is fine, but money should  
   not be able to buy the free speech of a human being. Otherwise,  
   those with the most money would have the most free speech, and that  
   wouldn't be fair to the rest of us would it?
  
   See? 3 practical and simple steps to making me a happy Facebook  
   consumer. If you agree with me, perhaps you should share this note,  
   send the practical steps to the Facebook team, or go to the Walmart  
   group and post a comment on the page-there's already some  
   fascinating discussion there.
  
   All my love to the users of Facebook and the employees of WalMart  
   everywhere-may you soon make a decent wage.
  
   Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos  
   new Car Finder tool.
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[MCN-L] IP SIG: Judge Kozinski Sept. 21 Lecture onFair Use + webcast

2006-09-13 Thread Amalyah Keshet
Since  6 pm Washington DC time is 2 am on this side of the world...  I 
checked out their webcast site www.wcl.american.edu/pijip/webcast.cfm . 
Fortunately, webcasts are saved and available later.  I just accessed Pamela 
Samuelson's 2005 lecture two days ago.  (Had to use IE - didn't work on 
Firefox.)

Amalyah


- Original Message - 
From: Newman, Alan a-new...@nga.gov
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] IP SIG: Judge Kozinski Sept. 21 Lecture onFair Use + 
webcast


 Amalyah,

 Is it possible you 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 on fair use before.  He is indeed quite a
 character; extraordinarily brilliant, but also one of the funniest and 
 most
 entertaining speakers around. -Tyler Ochoa (speaker, MCN 2006 
 Pasadena)

 Amalyah Keshet
 Chair, MCN IP SIG (annual meeting MCN 2006, Pasadena, Friday 12:00-1:30!)


 - Original Message -
 From: Perian Sully psully at magnes.org
 To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu
 Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 5:56 PM
 Subject: Re: [MCN-L] IP SIG: Judge Kozinski Sept. 21 Lecture on Fair Use 
 +
 webcast

 Thanks for forwarding this, Amalyah. I've been following Judge
 Kozinski's career for a while now. He's definitely a character!! It'll
 be interesting to see what he has to say on the topic.

 Perian Sully
 Collection Database and Records Administrator
 Judah L. Magnes Museum
 Berkeley, CA

 Amalyah Keshet wrote:
 For colleagues in the Wash. DC area, or by webcast:

 American University Washington College of Law's

 Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property

 Presents

 The Second Annual Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett  Dunner, LLP
 Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Property

 The Honorable Alex Kozinski
 Judge, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

 Fair Use Revisited

 DATE, TIME,  LOCATION
 September 21, 2006
 Reception ~ 5:00 PM | Lecture ~ 6:00 PM
 Washington College of Law, 4801 Mass Ave NW | Room 603

 REGISTRATION

 Email: iplecture at wcl.american.edu
 Phone: 202-274-4148
 www.wcl.american.edu/pijip/Kozinski.cfm


 WEBCAST

 We will be providing a streaming and on demand webcast of the lecture 
 for
 those who are unable to make it to Washington.
 The webcast will be available at 
 www.wcl.american.edu/pijip/webcast.cfm.


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

2006-09-13 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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


-

For people interested in fair use issues, two recent and important cases are 
worth reading.  The first is Bill Graham Archives v. Dorling Kindersley 
Limited, which the Second Circuit decided on May 9, 2006:

http://www.copybites.com/2006/05/second_circuit_.html

In that case, the Second Circuit found that the use of reduced images in a 
biographical work constituted transformative fair use.  Relying in part on 
Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corp., the Second Circuit rejected arguments that the use 
of the reduced size images required additional commentary and criticism beyond 
their placement in a biographical timeline. In addition, they declined to 
consider the market for the transformative use of these images as relevant to 
fourth factor analysis, where the only relevant market harm to consider 
according to the court was harm to traditional non-transformative uses.

The other case of interest is Wall Data Incorporated v. Los Angeles County 
Sheriff?s Department, which the Ninth Circuit decided on May 17, 2006:

http://www.copybites.com/2006/05/ninth_circuit_s.html

Here, the Ninth Circuit found the defendants liable for copyright infringement. 
 The essential point of condemnation was the defendant?s unauthorized 
duplication of computer software to achieve the same purpose as provided in 
their software licenses.  Of particular interest is the Ninth Circuit?s point 
of view on heightened vulnerability of computer software to illegal copying, 
which indicates that this court is less likely to grant fair use rights over 
computer software relative to other types of protected works such as books or 
photographs. While the breadth of the opinion's discussion on this heightened 
fair use standard is limited to computer software, one could see it as 
potentially signaling the appeals court's future approach to fair use 
exceptions over protected digital content in general. Also, the Ninth Circuit 
reaffirmed it's position that licensees of copyrighted works cannot seek 
protection under Section 117(a)'s essential step exception to Section 106 
exclusive rights.


-- Cory Hojka


Editor of Copybites: A Copyright Law Blog
http://www.copybites.com





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

2006-09-14 Thread Amalyah Keshet
Perian:

Thanks for the links.  I've just wasted a marvelous half hour (lunch!  lunch 
hour!) reading this stuff - and surfing along to other tempting links like 
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/15/politics/16text-blogs.html?ex=1158379200en=e6676d7af917367cei=5070
and
http://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 Message - 
  From: Perian Sully 
  To: akeshet at imj.org.il 
  Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 5:38 PM
  Subject: Re: [MCN-L] IP SIG: Judge Kozinski Sept. 21 Lecture onFair Use + 
webcast


  If you're interested in some of his decisions (if only from an entertainment 
standpoint), the unofficial fan site offers several opinions: 
http://notabug.com/kozinski/

  I have to say that Mattel v. MCA Records (24 July 2003) 
(http://notabug.com/kozinski/mattel_v_mca )is something of a sidesplitter (or 
maybe I'm just a nerd):

  KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge:
  If this were a sci-fi melodrama, it might be called Speech-
  Zilla meets Trademark Kong.
  I
  Barbie was born in Germany in the 1950s as an adult collector's
  item. Over the years, Mattel transformed her from a
  doll that resembled a German street walker, as she originally
  appeared, into a glamorous, long-legged blonde. Barbie
  has been labeled both the ideal American woman and a
  bimbo. She has survived attacks both psychic (from feminists
  critical of her fictitious figure) and physical (more than 500
  professional makeovers). She remains a symbol of American
  girlhood, a public figure who graces the aisles of toy stores
  throughout the country and beyond. With Barbie, Mattel created
  not just a toy but a cultural icon. (etc.)


  Amalyah Keshet wrote: 
Yet another recommendation. Seems like this webcast is a must:

I've actually seen him lecture on fair use before.  He is indeed quite a 
character; extraordinarily brilliant, but also one of the funniest and most 
entertaining speakers around. -Tyler Ochoa (speaker, MCN 2006 Pasadena)

Amalyah Keshet
Chair, MCN IP SIG (annual meeting MCN 2006, Pasadena, Friday 12:00-1:30!)


- Original Message - 
From: Perian Sully psu...@magnes.org
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] IP SIG: Judge Kozinski Sept. 21 Lecture on Fair Use + 
webcast

  Thanks for forwarding this, Amalyah. I've been following Judge
Kozinski's career for a while now. He's definitely a character!! It'll
be interesting to see what he has to say on the topic.

Perian Sully
Collection Database and Records Administrator
Judah L. Magnes Museum
Berkeley, CA

Amalyah Keshet wrote:
For colleagues in the Wash. DC area, or by webcast:

American University Washington College of Law's

Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property

Presents

The Second Annual Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett  Dunner, LLP
Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Property

The Honorable Alex Kozinski
Judge, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Fair Use Revisited

DATE, TIME,  LOCATION
September 21, 2006
Reception ~ 5:00 PM | Lecture ~ 6:00 PM
Washington College of Law, 4801 Mass Ave NW | Room 603

REGISTRATION

Email: iplecture at wcl.american.edu
Phone: 202-274-4148
www.wcl.american.edu/pijip/Kozinski.cfm


WEBCAST

We will be providing a streaming and on demand webcast of the lecture for
those who are unable to make it to Washington.
The webcast will be available at www.wcl.american.edu/pijip/webcast.cfm.

  
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[MCN-L] Google and MCN 2006 Pasadena

2006-09-27 Thread Amalyah Keshet
I want to extend a personal invitiation to everyone to attend what promises to 
be a very timely session at this year's MCN conference in Pasadena.  It's one 
of the last sessions of the conference, and I think it will send us home with a 
lot to think about in terms of the cultural environment in which we live and 
work.




   Searching for Fair Use: How Google's Copyright Battles Will Affect Access to 
Assets
   Saturday Nov. 11, 10:30
   Sponsored by MCN's IP SIG 
   Participants: Tyler Ochoa, Santa Clara 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 Google's current copyright battles. The outcome of these   
   controversies and court cases will clearly have an impact on how we will 
provide and access digital assets in cultural heritage institutions  
   in the future. Google Print, Google Library, Google Search, the Perfect 10 
v. Google Inc. thumbnail images case, as well as other similar 
   cases and the issues behind them will all be explored by a panel of 
user-friendly legal experts. Roundtable discussion will be 
   encouraged.




For those of you who want to do a little reading before the session, here's a 
start:

COPYRIGHT JUNGLE By Siva Vaidhyanathan   Columbia Journalism Review, 
September / October 2006
http://www.cjr.org/issues/2006/5/Vaidhyanathan.asp

See you there.

Amalyah Keshet
Head of Image Resources  Copyright Management
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Chair, MCN IP SIG



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

2006-09-27 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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

--

The British Library has called for a serious updating of current copyright 
law to unambiguously include digital content and take technological advances 
into account. 

In a manifesto released on Monday at the Labor Party Conference in Manchester, 
the United Kingdom's national library warned that the country's traditional 
copyright law needs to be extended to fully recognize digital content. 

Unless there is a serious updating of copyright law to recognize the changing 
technological environment, the law becomes an ass, Lynne Brindley, chief 
executive of the British Library, told ZDNet UK. 

Digital rights management (DRM) technologies and licensing agreements currently 
can impose restrictions on copying content that go beyond the requirements of 
copyright law. This needs legal clarification, according to the British 
Library. 

http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-6119043.html



[MCN-L] MCN-L List Administration

2006-06-28 Thread amalyah keshet
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; Committee member Christina DePaolo, Web Editor Margaret
Kendrick, the folks at Mediatrope; and all those who helped test,
re-test, and test again.

We're back!


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Collections Information and Access
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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[MCN-L] IP SIG: Microsoft and Creative Commons - good news for a change

2006-06-30 Thread amalyah keshet
No, this is not from The Onion,  it's for real.  Do a double-take, and read:

Software giant Microsoft said it will offer a free tool for Office 
users to embed Creative Commons copyright options in Word, Excel and 
PowerPoint documents.
The unsupported tool permits content to be licensed from within the 
Office suite of applications.
Created in 2001 by Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig, 
Creative Commons offers licenses enabling artists to retain a 
copyright but restrict distribution, such as whether a work can be 
used commercially or 
modified. 
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/26/arts/26crea.html?_r=1oref=sloginhttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/26/arts/26crea.html?_r=1oref=slogin
 


See also:

http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3615131http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3615131

http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-commons/tales_3668.jsp



And:

In a world where copyright often runs amok like a hyperactive 
eight-year-old who has just ingested a giant bag of MMs, Creative 
Commons reclines coolly on a beach chair, sipping a lemonade. The 
licensing tool gives copyright holders a high degree of flexibility 
over how their works are used and licensed once they are released.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060621-7099.htmlhttp://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060621-7099.html


And now for something totally different:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/22/microsoft_creative_commons/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/22/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

1970-01-02 Thread amalyah keshet
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
 To:   VRA-L at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
 Hello everyone -- Considering the recent discussions of folksonomy,
 I thought this article in the most recent issue of D-Lib might be of
 interest.  I don't think it's been mentioned yet.
 
 Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy
 Elaine Peterson, Montana State University
 http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november06/peterson/11peterson.html
 
 Jeanette
 
 =
 Jeanette C. Mills, MA + MLIS
 Director of Visual Services  Newsletter Editor
 School of Art, University of Washington
 jcmills at u dot washington dot edu
 206-543-0649
 =

--
Diane M. Zorich
113 Gallup Road
Princeton, NJ 08542 USA
Voice: 609-252-1606
Fax: 609-252-1607
Email:  dzorich at mindspring.com




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




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

1970-01-02 Thread amalyah keshet

Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:15:54 -0500
From: Deidre Hoguet dhoguet at metro.org
Subject: RE: Museum IP UPDIG  Conferences
Sender: musip at yahoogroups.com

Hello,

I would like to add that the Metropolitan New 
York Library Council (METRO) will host a 
symposium titled ?Copyright: The Only Certainty 
is Uncertainty? on February 15, 2007 at the 
Baruch College Conference Center in New York 
City. This day-long event will address numerous 
copyright concerns in libraries, especially in 
relation to digitization. Of particular interest 
to the museum IP community may be the second 
panel session ?Public Domain: To ? Or Not To ??? 
I am pasting the symposium agenda below.

Deidre Hoguet
Program Coordinator
Metropolitan New York Library Council
57 East 11th Street
New York, NY 10003-4605
ph:  212-228-2320 ext. 22
fax: 212-228-2598
dhoguet at metro.org
http://www.metro.orgwww.metro.org


COPYRIGHT: THE ONLY CERTAINTY IS UNCERTAINTY
Metropolitan New York Library Council
February 15, 2007, 9:00 am ? 5:00 pm
Held at Baruch College Conference Center

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
* James Neal, Vice President for Information 
Services and University Librarian of Columbia University Libraries
* Siva Vaidhyanathan, Associate Professor of 
Culture and Communication at New York University

PANEL SESSIONS:
* How Copyright Law Curtails Access and What That Means For Libraries
Panelists will consider various topics on how 
existing copyright law curtails access and the 
implications it may have for libraries. Topics 
may include Orphan Works, Document Delivery in 
Libraries, E-Reserves, and Section 512 of the DMCA (Safe Harbor Provision).
Panelists:
Peter Hirtle, Intellectual Property Officer, Cornell University
Maria Pallante-Hyun, Associate General Counsel, Guggenheim Museum
Laura Quilter, Associate Counsel for the Brennan 
Center, New York University School of Law

* Public Domain: To ? Or Not To ??
Panelists will tackle the complicated issue of 
libraries, archives, and museums that assert 
copyright over digital reproductions of public domain materials.
Panelists:
Susan Chun, General Manager for Collections 
Information Planning, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Kenneth Hamma, Executive Director, Digital 
Policy  Initiatives, J. Paul Getty Trust
Jason Mazzone, Assistant Professor, Brooklyn Law School
James Shulman, Executive Director, ARTstor.

BREAKOUT SESSIONS:
* Copyright 101:  A crash course introduction to 
copyright law for librarians taught by Peter 
Hirtle, Intellectual Property Officer, Cornell University
* Creative Commons 101: An introduction to 
Creative Commons as an alternative to 
traditional copyright and licensing schemes 
presented by Fred Benenson, Creative 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
To: musip at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Museum IP UPDIG  Conferences

John:

A list of sources for copyright / Rights  
Reproductions information can be found on the 
MCN website - go to 
www.mcn.edu/groups/index.asp?subkey=100 . You'll 
especially want to visit this source listed 
there: 
http://www.panix.com/%7Esquigle/rarin/01rcsite.htmlRights 
and Reproductions Information Network (R.A.R.I.N.) .

We haven't had a Rights  Reproductions workshop 
at MCN for several years, but feel free to 
propose one for 2007!  If there's enough interest, we'll put one together.

In the meantime, don't forget that if you have 
specific questions, just ask here or on the MCN 
listserv (sign up on the MCN website).  The 
collective wisdom of everyone on these lists is priceless.

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


At 22:30 16/11/2006, you wrote:
Greetings all,

I just came back from the Museum Computer 
Network conference in Pasadena and wanted to 
share a valuable new resource with all of you.

A group of imaging professionals has come up 
with a website and downloadable PDF guide which 
outlines some basic digital image standards.

The website is:

www.updig.org (The Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines)

Also, being new to the Rights and Reproductions 
arena I wanted to see if people could suggest 
some good conferences or workshops that one 
could attend as related to Rights and Reproductions issues/information.

Any resources you may have would be welcome.

Thanks,

John ff.
*
John ffrench
Associate Director
Visual Resources Department
Yale University Art Gallery
tel. 203.432.8051
fax. 203.432.9369

mailto:john.ffrench at yale.edujohn.ffrench at yale.edu
http://artgallery.yale.edu



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

1970-01-02 Thread amalyah keshet
://response.pure360.com/_act/link.php?mId=A81856037057326141686tId=867

846  Printed copies are available from Jo Blore: 
mailto:j.blore at britac.ac.ukj.blore at britac.ac.uk /020

7969 5225.


3.  For further media enquires relating to the Academy Review please

contact Michael Reade, External Relations Department 
mailto:m.reade at britac.ac.ukm.reade at britac.ac.uk

mailto: m.reade at britac.ac.uk or telephone 020 7969 5263.


4.  The report of the Gowers Review is available from

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews/gowers_review_intellectualhttp://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews/gowers_review_intellectual

_property/gowersreview_index.cfm

 http://response.pure360.com/_act/link.php?mId=A81856037057326141686tId=867

847


5.  The British Academy is the National Academy for the Humanities and

Social Sciences. Established by Royal Charter in 1902, the British Academy

is an independent learned society promoting the humanities and social

sciences. It is composed of Fellows elected in recognition of their

distinction as scholars in the humanities and social sciences.


6.  Further details about the British Academy may be found at:

http://www.britac.ac.ukhttp://www.britac.ac.uk

 http://response.pure360.com/_act/link.php?mId=A81856037057326141686tId=867

848





The British Academy

10 Carlton House

London SW1Y 5AH


Tel: 020 7969 5200

Fax: 020 7969 5300

Web:

http://response.pure360.com/_act/link.php?mId=A81856037057326141686tId=867http://response.pure360.com/_act/link.php?mId=A81856037057326141686tId=867

849 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

1970-01-06 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 
human endeavour, fall out of copyright to become the common cultural 
property of all citizens of a given country...




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

1970-01-07 Thread Amalyah Keshet
Appeals Court Shoots Down Copyright Challenge: The case impacts how
out-of-print and orphaned works may, or may not, be viewed online.
By Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek, Jan 23, 2007
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196903040

The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected an effort by online
archivists to challenge the federal law that automatically extends
copyright protection for out-of-print and orphaned works.

-

Blog: Appeals court rejects challenge to opt-out copyright
By Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 1/25/2007
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070125-8704.html

On Monday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the case of
Kahle v. Gonzales, which sought to challenge the U.S.'s change from an
opt-in copyright system to an opt-out system between 1976 and 1992.
The ruling was a setback for those seeking to free works 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

1970-01-08 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 post-baccalaureate certificate program in Digital
 Information Management (DigIn). DigIn will provide hands-on experience
 and focused instruction for people seeking new careers in or improving
 their skills and knowledge of digital archives, digital libraries,
 digital document repositories and other kinds of digital collections.

 The explosion of digital information and the growth of on-line digital
 resources has led to a shortage of individuals with an understanding of
 the disciplines of libraries, document management and archives who also
 have the technical knowledge and skills needed to create, manage and
 support digital information collections. The six-course, 18-credit hour
 graduate program will provide both new students and working
 professionals with a balanced mix of content that includes practical
 applied technology skills along with a foundation in the theory and
 practice of building and maintaining today?s digital collections.
 Certificate holders will be well positioned for careers in libraries,
 archives, local, state and federal government and the private sector.

 All coursework is online, so students will not need to take time off
 work or travel for courses. The program may be completed in 18-30 months
 and starts each summer with two required courses, Introduction to
 Applied Technology and Introduction to Digital Collections. The
 certificate program has been developed in cooperation with The Arizona
 State Library, Archives and Public Records. Major funding for program
 development comes from the Institute of Museum and Library Services
 (IMLS), which has also provided funding for a limited number of
 scholarships.

 For more information and to apply, visit the University of Arizona
 Office of Continuing Education and Academic Outreach website at
 http://ceao.arizona.edu/dist/sirls_welcome.html. The deadline for
 scholarship applications and admission to the program starting this
 summer is March 1, 2007.

 Bruce Fulton, MLS
 Communications and Outreach Librarian
 School of Information Resources and Library Science
 1515 E First Street
 Tucson, AZ 85719
 Main Office: 520-621-3565
 Direct: 520-626-4631
 Fax: 520-621-3279
 Email: bfulton at email.arizona.edu
 http://www.sir.arizona.edu
 




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

1970-01-09 Thread Amalyah Keshet
From Slashdot:

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/22/2150244from=rss

...when you buy content for Amazon's Kindle or the Sony Reader, are you 
buying a crippled license to intellectual property when you download, or are 
you buying a book? If the latter, then the first sale doctrine, which lets you 
hawk your old Harry Potter hardcovers on eBay, would apply. Some law students 
at Columbia took a swing at the question and Gizmodo reprints the surprisingly 
readable legal summary. Short answer: those restrictive licenses may very well 
be legal, and even if you had rights under 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
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem  akeshet at imj.org.il
Chair, MCN IP SIG   www.mcn.edu
Blog  www.musematic.net 



 


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

1970-01-11 Thread Amalyah Keshet
 ==
 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 institution
 can use in a variety of ways to continue its technology leadership.
 The awards honor not-for-profit institutions that have demonstrated
 exemplary leadership in the development of open source software for
 one or more of the constituencies served by The Andrew W. Mellon
 Foundation: the arts and humanities in higher education; research
 libraries, museums; performing arts organizations; and conservation
 biology.

 Awardees are selected by a distinguished committee of technology
 leaders, including Mitchell Baker, Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, John
 Seely Brown, Vint Cerf, John Gage, and Tim O?Reilly. Previous
 winners include higher education institutions, libraries, and
 museums  from North America, Europe, and Asia.

 An online nomination form and more information may be found at
 http://matc.mellon.org.  The nominations are public: the community
 is invited to visit the site and comment.




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

1970-01-16 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 of 
the fair use provision in the new Israeli Copyright Law.



http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1206446110027pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull




Jonathan Band PLLC
policybandwidth
21 Dupont Circle NW
8th Floor
Washington, D.C.  20036
voice: 202-296-5675
  fax: 202-872-0884
email: jband at policybandwidth.com
  web: www.policybandwidth.com




[MCN-L] Fw: Software for testing ISPs

1970-01-16 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 great news. Unfortunately, the general problem of ISPs doing
strange things to Internet traffic without telling their customers is
likely to continue in the future. EFF and many other organizations are
working on software to test ISPs for unusual (mis)behavior. In this
detailed post, we have a round-up of the tools that are out there
right now, and others that are in development...

The Backstory

When you sign up for an Internet connection, you expect it to actually
be an Internet connection. You expect that you can run whatever
applications and protocols you choose over the link, or indeed that
you can write your own software and run that.

There is a disturbing trend, however, of ISPs stepping in to meddle
with your communications, deciding that some applications and
protocols are more suitable than others. Or deciding that they can
inject advertisements into your queries for domain names, or your
browser's exchangeswith web sites. Or deciding that encrypted traffic
should be throttled across the board.

Whatever you may think about the merits of these practices, we think
it's obvious that consumers have a right to know what they're paying
for. Only then can they exert pressure on an ISP tochange its ways, or
vote with their wallets and take their business elsewhere. As we
argued in a recent submission to the FCC, ISPs should (at a minimum)
disclose the nature of their network management practices.

But disclosure will never be enough. Internet users need to be able to
test networks themselves to make sure that packets and web pages
arrive as they were sent, to make sure that DNS queries are correctly
answered, and that ISPs comply with the Internet's standards. That
needs to happen around the whole planet.

There are lots of approaches to ISP testing

Before we start talking about all the tools that are popping up for
ISP testing, it's worth noting that there are a lot of different ways
to test a network, with many different pros and cons. For instance,
the software may:

? Actively send synthetic, pre-determined test traffic, or
passively observe the way the network treats natural traffic;
? If the traffic is synthetic, the testing software may try to cope
with the complex variation in operating systems and network
environments, or try to simplify things by creating or insisting on a
known test environment;
? Passive testing systems may focus on one or a small number of
protocols, or they may try to test for interference in any protocol
that is present;
? The software may (1) be unilateral, just trying to detect
interference or delay by examining what's happening on a single
computer's network connection, or (2) be multi-party, synchronizing
and comparing records from computers that are talking to each other,
or (3) be in between, only having authoritative records from one end
but possessing special knowledge about how the other end will behave;
? Non-unilateral testing systems may rely on a central server, or
they may just try to coordinate records in a peer-to-peer fashion;
? Software may operate at the packet level, measuring integrity,
latency and reliability on a per-packet basis, or it may operate at a
higher level, confirming (for example) that web pages arrive intact or
that a link is running at a certain speed, without worrying about any
of the individual packets.
It's a good idea for the Internet community to be pursuing most of
these different possibilities, because they're all useful in different
situations, and we don't yet know which techniques will prove to be
the most important.

Existing and soon-to-be-released tools and data

Last year, EFF released a simple utility called pcapdiff (many thanks
to the people who've sent us patches and bug reports; we'll be
releasing version 0.2 shortly). EFF is also working on a much more
elaborate tool for testing ISPs, which will be called Switzerland.
More on that below.

An Italian group has developed an ISO CD image that can be used to
test an Internet connection (the CD uses pcapdiff, too!). It's called
The Gemini Project. Deploying a whole temporary operating system on a
CD is a great example of the simplify the test environment approach
we described above.

Vuze, the company formed around the Azureus BitTorrent client, has
released a plugin that counts the number of RST packets sent to your
BT client. These statistics are interesting, but remember that there
are legitimate RST packets, and the presence of TCP RSTs isn't
evidence that they were spoofed by an intermediary.

The problem of ISPs making arrangements with advertisers to inject
extra ads and tracking mechanisms into web pages prompted researchers
at the University of Washington and 

[MCN-L] Security Lapse Exposes Personal Facebook Photos

1970-01-18 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 
Bros. supermarkets across the Northeast and in Florida enabled the massive data 
breach that compromised up to 4.2 million credit and debit cards, the company 
said. The Scarborough, Maine-based grocer confirmed a report in The Boston 
Globe that it told Massachusetts regulators about the link between the breach 
and the illicit programs, known as malware. ... 
  The breach has prompted concern in the industry because it appeared to be the 
first large-scale theft of credit and debit card numbers while the information 
was in transit.

  
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-28-malware-supermarket_N.htm

Amalyah



- Original Message - 
From: Susan Hazan sha...@netvision.net.il
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv mcn-l at mcn.edu
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Security Lapse Exposes Personal Facebook Photos




Any chance these constant headlines about Facebook privacy problems 
are trying to ...tell us something?
 
 Yes ... that the Internet, social networks, instant messaging systems 
 and email clients tend to mess things up, let in spam, and Trojan 
 horses, grant access to files that are not are not rightfully yours 
 while silo-ing off others for no appropriate reason ... I would 
 recommend shunning anything that has a modem or router attached to it 
 or, just to be sure, steer clear away from anything that needs 
 electricity to turn itself on ...
 Susan
 
 



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

1970-01-19 Thread Amalyah Keshet
 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 copyright,
technological innovation, and higher education. In its Eighth Annual
Symposium, the CIP continues its tradition of convening a rich
conversation on copyright policy that includes voices from higher
education, business and industry, law, policy, government, and nonprofit
sectors, and that also spans the spectrum of opinion and perspective.

Join the CIP May 28-30 to hear and interact with--all in one place--
these outstanding scholars and practitioners of copyright in the digital
arena. 

From Higher Education:
* James Boyle (Duke University School of Law and the Center for the
Study of the Public Domain) [Keynote];
* Georgia Harper (University of Texas at Austin Libraries) [Keynote];
* Laura Gasaway (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill)
[Pre-Conference];
* ...and others.

From the Non-Profit and Policy Sectors:
* Gigi Sohn (Public Knowledge) [Keynote];
* Julia Blixrud (Scholarly Publishing  Academic Resources Coalition);
* William Carney (Online Computer Library Center);
* Karla Hahn (Association for Research Libraries);
* ...plus many more. 

From Business, Industry, and Government:
* Arnold Lutzker (Lutzker  Lutzker, LLP) [Pre-Conference];
* Drew Zuretti (Copyright Clearance Center) [Pre-Conference];
* Oliver Metzger (U.S. Copyright Office);
* Jon Orwant (Google, Inc.).

For all the details on the 2008 symposium, see
http://www.umuc.edu/CIP2008, or you can register today by visiting
http://tinyurl.com/ypg33b.

This three-day symposium includes keynote addresses, pre-conference
seminars, panel presentations, roundtable discussions, as well as
multiple opportunities for networking with professionals from across the
country.

And because the CIP is a higher education nonprofit organization, we
understand the need for reasonably priced programming, and we are
committed each year to providing hundreds of conferees the opportunity
to engage with valuable content at an exceptionally affordable price.

Again, full details may be found at http://www.umuc.edu/CIP2008, and
registration is available at http://tinyurl.com/ypg33b.
--
Olga Francois, Assistant Director
Center for Intellectual Property
University of Maryland University College
3501 University Blvd. East, PGM3-780
Adelphi, MD 20783
Phone: 240-582-2803
Fax:   240-582-2961
http://www.umuc.edu/CIP2008/




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

1970-01-19 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 cost is just $15 at the door.  Are you
interested in digitization, but don't know where to start? Do you want
to learn more? This is a wonderful opportunity to find the answers
you've been looking for.  Visit the Digitization Expo to learn from
practitioners, talk with vendors, and see live demonstrations of
equipment and software.  From digital cameras to high end scanners,
you can see it all here!

When? Tuesday, April 15, 2008 9 am - 4:30 pm

Where? Dallas Convention Center, corner of Young and Griffin, Ballroom A, 3

Who? Anyone interested in digitization, you do not need to be a TLA member.

What? From digital cameras to high end scanners, you can see it all here!

How? $15 at the door of the ballroom.


Preliminary List of Vendors
 
- Innovative Interfaces, Inc.
- Backstage Library Works
- Archetype Digital Imaging Alliance
- Zytron Imaging
- Amigos Library Services
- IImage Retrieval
- Safe Sound
- Texas State Library and Archives Commission
- Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative
- Portal to Texas History


Speakers

- Mike Miller, Austin History Center
- Danielle Cunniff Plumer, TSLAC
- Geneva Henry, Rice University
- Susan Clarke, Stephen F. Austin University
- Laura Zavala Garcia and Alex Hatley, Corpus Christi Public Library
- Mark Phillips, University of North Texas
- George Blood, Safe Sound


Events

The University of Texas' chapter of the American Society for
Information Science and Technology will demonstrate open-source
software including Open Collection, Greenstone, Fedora, DSpace, and
more.

Poster sessions, on display all day, and live discussion 3 - 4:30 pm.




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

1970-01-19 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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. 

The program includes: 
  a.. CONTENTdm: Future Directions by Claire Cocco, CONTENTdm Product Manager 
  b.. Carpe CONTENTdm, by Glee Willis, University of Nevada, Reno
  c.. Metadata Interoperability and CONTENTdm, by Amy Jackson and Myung-Ja Han, 
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 
  d.. Adapting CONTENTdm for a Non-Image Database by Sherrie Kline Smith, 
Kansas City Public Library 
Building Regional Collaborations, Art Collections in CONTENTdm, Managing 
Historic Maps, Web Templates and Interface Customization, Textile Collections 
in CONTENTdm, are among other program topics. 

For the complete program, click here: http://www.lib.purdue.edu/spcol/mug/ 

Register today at http://www.incolsa.net/training/contentdm2008

The $70 registration fee covers the cost of lunch and refreshments during the 
two-day meeting. Registration is being managed by INCOLSA. 

Workshop is full: A pre-conference workshop is slated for Tuesday, April 29, 
from 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon EST. From Spoken Word to Digital File: Make Oral 
Histories Available in CONTENTdm is being presented by staff at Ball State 
University. A separate fee of $25 covers the workshop cost.

Registration is available at INCOLSA:  
http://www.incolsa.net/WebCal/eventreg.html?EventID=2806CALid=5668 

Registration Deadline is April 15.

Need more information? Please contact Carl Snow at Purdue University at 
765-494-2764 or at csnow at purdue.edu


_
Janet M. Carleton - carleton at ohio.edu - 740.597.2527
Digital Initiatives Coordinator / Subject Specialist for Women's  Gender 
Studies
   Alden 235A, Ohio University Libraries, Athens, Ohio
  http://www.library.ohiou.edu/ 




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

1970-01-19 Thread Amalyah Keshet
 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. 4108.  This bill is a tragedy wrapped in a
 travesty.  It is also a travesty wrapped in a tragedy.

 ?Under this bill, new government agencies, including a Department of
 Intellectual Property Security, would be created and given
 extraordinary powers.  Copyright protection would be extended to new
 types of works and with even longer terms of protection in force.
 In particular, the fashion industry will say, ?Bravo? to this bill.
 New software schemes would be mandated and new powers would be
 granted to private industry. Rights of the public would be curtailed
 drastically indefinitely, forever.

 ?Anyone would have to be a fool to vote for this bill.?

 The full text of the bill is here: 
 http://www.publicknowledge.org/pdf/110-s4108-20080401.pdf


 
 Public Knowledge is a Washington, D.C.-based public interest group
 working to defend citizens? rights in the emerging digital culture.
 More information available is available at: 
 http://www.publicknowledge.org

 -- 
 Art Brodsky
 Communications Director
 Public Knowledge
 (202) 518-0020 ext 103 (o)
 (301) 908-7715 (c)
 1875 Connecticut Ave., N.W.
 Suite 650
 Washington, D.C.  20009
 www.publicknowledge.org




[MCN-L] E-books in museums

2011-11-09 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Chair, MCN IP SIG


- Original Message -
From: Greg Albers galb...@holartbooks.com
Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2011 17:22
Subject: [MCN-L] E-books in museums
To: mcn-l at mcn.edu

 Hi All,
 
 A couple weeks ago, I gave a presentation at the Books in Browsers
 publishing conference. Making a larger point about e-books' inherent
 instantaneity and everywhere-ness, I proposed giving museum visitors
 e-books downloads directly from artworks in galleries, with the help
 of a QR code and a smartphone. Someone who saw the presentation
 pointed me to MoMA's Talk To Me as a current example of a museum
 exhibition connecting rich digital content of all sorts directly to
 physical objects and places.
 
 I know of a few other tangential examples, but I'm wondering if anyone
 else out there is doing anything specifically with in-museum e-books
 at all? I'd love to hear about it if you are. Or, if you'll be in
 Atlanta next week and can chat in person, that would be great as well,
 I'll be there leading a workshop ... on e-books.
 
 Thanks!
 Greg
 
 And here's the presentation, in two flavors:
 video: http://bit.ly/sFRpxv
 e-book: http://bit.ly/bib11artbk
 
 
 --
 Greg Albers
 Hol Art Books
 www.holartbooks.com
 520) 331-2780
 twitter: @holartbooks
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[MCN-L] Calling all cataloguing nerds

2009-03-24 Thread Amalyah Keshet
I'm not a cataloging nerd (although I've been called worse names), but I tend 
to look at it this way:
what is the basic (physical, if possible) thing that's being catalogued?  Its 
manifestations or uses or projections or permutations or interpretations may be 
many and varied, but the thing catalogued is a CD or a DVD or a hard disk or a 
website sitting on a specific server, or some such ...thing, even if the work 
is digital.  It's where the work lives.  

Or think of it this way: if the work is ever stolen and you need to report it 
to the police, what would you want to recover?  The manifestation?  The 
projection? No -- you'd want the thing that embodies the work and makes it 
manifestable or projectable.  That's the work that's in the collection.  The 
rest belongs in the Description field.  

You say you are acquiring edition 1/4 of the work.  That's pretty concrete 
right there.  That definition would replace the former, temporary catalog 
record, I would think -- that old record is now exhibition history  or even 
provenance.  And the permitted manifestations would, again, appear in the 
Description field, or some other free text field.  

Now all the real catalogers 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 are involved in complex cataloguing questions, 
 especially for contemporary art, and enjoy puzzling over them for 
 inordinate amounts of time, here is a conundrum for you. How would 
 you approach a situation like this?
 
 The artist created a work specifically for a temporary exhibition. 
 The original work was projected video imagery on the fa?ades of the 
 museum building. We created a full catalogue record in our 
 collections system for this work. Subsequently the artist created a 
 derivative version of the piece to be offered for sale through the 
 artist's gallery, in an edition of 4. The museum is acquiring 
 edition 1/4 this work. It consists of the same imagery as the 
 original, but it has been re-edited, has acquired a sound track, 
 and is designed primarily as an indoors single-channel video 
 projection. However, in our museum's case, the artist is permitting 
 the work to be shown again as an outside projection on the museum 
 fa?ades exactly as the original work was, as well as indoors as a 
 single-channel projection.
 
 It may also be significant that the original work was created under 
 severe time constraints and the artist viewed it more or less as a 
 work in progress. But it had to be shown in the exhibition in an 
 unfinished state because the artist simply ran out of time.
 
 Essentially our options are 1) create a separate catalogue record 
 for the new derivative work, or 2) treat both the original 
 projection and the derivative piece as two manifestations of a 
 single work (loosely following FRBR concepts).
 
 I suppose a broader question is, do any of you follow FRBR concepts 
 when cataloguing works of this nature?
 
 If this is too esoteric for the list, feel free to respond off-list.
 
 Thanks,
 
 Will Real
 Carnegie Museum of Art
 
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[MCN-L] Google Book Settlement: Business Trumps Fair Use

2008-11-02 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 establishing a positive 
legal precedent for copyright fair use on the Internet...

As an academic and a fair use advocate, I was somewhat disappointed the 
case got settled. I had been hoping to see it as a test of the 
boundaries of fair use, as a chance for the court to describe more 
specifically the scope of fair use here, said Wendy Seltzer, a fellow 
at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society 
http://www.pcworld.com/tags/Berkman+Centre+for+Internet+%26+Society.html...

Google has quite effectively solidified with this settlement its 
position as a leading search company and effectively excluded lots of 
others from following in its footsteps. A court judgement in favor of 
fair use would have let anyone else go in and make similar fair uses, 
Seltzer said. This settlement sets a pretty high fee on making those uses.

In other words, Google saw the opportunity to settle in these terms as a 
key move for its business strategy, one valuable enough to sacrifice a 
greater good for Internet companies everywhere.


http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/153085/in_google_book_settlement_business_trumps_ideals.html
  




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

2008-11-08 Thread Amalyah Keshet
 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 present the second
letter in this year's Commoner Letter series, written by CC Guatemala
Project Lead, Renata Avila. In addition to her passionate work heading
off the successful launch last month of Creative Commons licenses in
Guatemala, Renata is also a human rights lawyer and a frequent author
for Global Voices Online,  an international citizen journalism
project. As you will see in  this letter, some of CC's most inspiring
stories come from our international community; they help remind us why
CC and the Commons are vital and how they have the power to effect
positive change in ways that may never have seemed possible.

==

Dear Commoner,

The Creative Commons enables us to connect with people from other
cultures, share ideas, and solve problems together. It is a tool that
gives voice to creativity, and allows us to share symbolic space
within society, charting alternative routes to inclusion across the
continents, in all languages.

My country, Guatemala, is an amazing place where indigenous
communities and Spanish speakers share a diverse cultural space. The
diversity extends from the culture to the landscapes, right down to
the way we communicate. There are 22 indigenous languages in active
use by Guatemalan communities across mountains, two oceans, and 33
volcanoes. Sadly, our country was affected profoundly by more than 30
years of civil strife until the mid-90s, and is only now emerging from
a long period of violence and racism, exclusion and social disparity.

Poverty in Guatemala is high and deep, and the country has remarkably
unequal distributions of income, resources and opportunities. In my
work as a human rights lawyer, I have experienced in a very personal
way that the potential of our cultural commons and national heritage
is disconnected and unrealized.

Each of our indigenous communities treasures a legacy of scientific
and technical knowledge, artistic and aesthetic values of their own,
but they need the tools to open their culture to others and share both
ways. We need to find ways to overcome linguistic, technical and
social barriers, and build connections with Spanish-speakers
completely disconnected from their reality. To create a common culture
is a challenge and a necessity to improve living conditions and assure
peace. As in many other developing countries, basic necessities such
as food, potable water and medical care certainly have priority. But
how can we communicate to the world that we are in fact a rich
country, in the sense of how we create and preserve culture? How do we
connect different visions of the world within the same country?

I decided to spearhead the launch of Creative Commons Licenses in
Guatemala as a tool to help connect our cultural commons. Now the
Guatemalan Ministry of Education is using cc for a Schools of the
Future project with books and materials with Creative Commons licenses
to help breach the digital divide. One of the most prestigious
universities in the country, Franscisco Marroqu?n University, have
released their online educational resources to the Commons too.

Internationalization and localization of the Creative Commons licenses
is more than just a technical, legal process. It enables creative,
verbal and nonverbal forms of expression as a vehicle to share and
learn from one another. Through human connections we can discover
treasures that reshape our understanding of concepts like
development, wealth and others. We can begin to cross the mental
and geographic borders that divide us.

As an author for Global Voices Online, one of the most successful
examples of global cultural exchange using Creative Commons licenses;
and as a lawyer dealing with the complexities of multilingual,
developing countries in transition to peace, I believe that open tools
such as the Creative Commons are essential for creating better
societies. We have a lot to learn from each other. With this letter I
challenge you to allow yourself to be embraced by another world.

Please support the creation of our Global Commons.

===

We rely on our supporters to continue our work enabling
stories like those listed above. Check it out --

Donate:
http://support.creativecommons.org/join

CC Store:
http://support.creativecommons.org/store

Events:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Events

ccNewsletter:
http://creativecommons.org/about/newsletter

Creative Commons was built with and is sustained by the
generous support of organizations including the Center for the
Public Domain, the Omidyar Network, The Rockefeller Foundation,
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and The
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, as well as members of
the public.



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

2008-05-04 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 
http://techdirt.com/articles/20080421/024049903.shtml
We've written about Stiglitz in the past, for his explanation of how 
patents often do more harm than good economically. In this speech, which 
is covering a much broader topic (globalization), he makes a few really 
good points about why what politicians put in place as globalization 
isn't matching what economists say should happen in a globalized 
economy... 
In particular, he points out how this is done with intellectual 
property. This is something we noted last year when we couldn't 
understand why a free trade agreement would guarantee monopolies on 
intellectual property. That seemed like the opposite of free trade. As 
Stiglitz notes: /The Uruguay Round TRIPs Agreement, which is 
Trade-Related Intellectual Property, has nothing to do with trade. They 
just put trade-related because they had to put that in there to have 
it in a trade agreement. That was the real ingenuity...  //they wanted 
the trade ministers to do it because the trade ministers didn't know 
anything about intellectual property, and that meant they were much more 
vulnerable to the influences of the special interests. /



[MCN-L] Internet Archive wins against FBI

2008-05-13 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 in San Francisco,
 was appalled when his volunteer lawyers told him in November
 that the FBI was demanding records of all communications with
 one of his patrons as part of an investigation of
 international terrorism or clandestine intelligence
 activities.

 The FBI document, called a national security letter, told
 Kahle he could be prosecuted if he discussed the subject with
 anyone but his lawyers, and allowed him to speak with his
 attorneys only in person. Kahle said his Internet Archive,
 which has 500,000 card-holders, doesn't even keep the records
 the FBI was seeking.

 He was allowed to speak publicly Wednesday under a rare
 settlement in which the FBI agreed to withdraw its letter and
 lift the gag order. That should show other librarians, and
 members of the public who receive any of the nearly 50,000
 national security letters the government issues each year,
 that you can push back on these, Kahle said.




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

2008-05-01 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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: http://cfp.wikia.com/wiki/CFP08
LinkedIn Group: http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/61857/7885844E0F9D


Hotel Conference Discount Deadline: May 1, 2008 
Early Bird Registration: Fri., May 2, 2008
YJoLT Tech Policy Essay Contest: Mon., May 5, 2008




ABOUT CFP: TECHNOLOGY POLICY `08


What should the technology policy priorities of the next administration be? 


As the choice of presidential candidates becomes clearer and election year 
moves towards a comparison of the candidates' platforms on the issues, 
technology policy is increasingly relevant to the forefront of public debate. 
In the areas of privacy, intellectual property, cybersecurity, 
telecommunications, and freedom of speech, topics that were once confined to 
experts now appear in the mainstream of political issues. We now know that our 
decisions about technology policy are being made at a time as the architectures 
of our information and communication technologies are still being built.


This year, the 18th annual Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference is 
focusing on those issues at the forefront of technology policy this election 
year. With plenary panels on the National Security State and the Next 
Administration and The 21st Century Panopticon? the discussions taking place 
look towards our present and future priorities.


CFP: Technology Policy '08 is an opportunity to participate in shaping those 
issues being made into laws and regulations and those technological 
infrastructures being developed. Policies ranging from spyware and national 
security, to ISP filtering and patent reform, e-voting to electronic medical 
records, and more will be addressed by expert panels of technologists, 
policymakers, business leaders, and activists. The panel topics are listed 
below and full panel descriptions are available on the conference website at:


  http://www.cfp2008.org/wiki/index.php/Program.


The CFP: Technology Policy `08 conversation has already begun in the virtual 
spaces connected to the conference. Even if you are unable to attend the 
conference this year, there are several opportunities to participate remotely. 
The guiding principles that ought to guide our policies are being debated on 
the conference blog. Social networking groups on Facebook and LinkedIn are 
providing new spaces for the CFP community to meet and discuss. The Yale 
Journal of Law and Technology is hosting a call for essays, on the priorities 
of the next administration, with more details below.


We look forward to seeing you in New Haven on May 20-23.


CONFERENCE PROGRAM


Plenary Sessions
Presidential Technology Policy: Priorities for the Next Executive
The 21st Century Panopticon?
The National Security State and the Next Adminstration


Tutorials
A Short History of Privacy
Constitutional Law in Cyberspace
e-Deceptive Campaign Practices: Elections 2.0
Maintaining Privacy While Accessing On-line Information


Panel Sessions
Activism and Education Using Social Networks
Breaking the Silence: Iranians Find a Voice on the Internet
Charismatic Content: Wikis, Social Networks, and the Future of
User-Generated Content
Filtering Out Copyright Infringement: Possibilities, Practicalities, and
Legalities
Filtering and Censorship in Europe
Hate Speech and Oppression in Cyberspace 
Interoperability at the Crossroads?: The Liberal Order versus
Fragmentation
Law, Regulation, and Software Licensing for the Electronic Medical Record
Measuring Global Threats to Internet Freedom
Network Neutrality: Beyond the Slogans
New Challenges for Spyware Policy 
Patents: The Bleeding Edge of Technology Policy
Privacy, Reputation, and the Management of Online Communities
Rights  Responsibilities for Software Programs?
States as Incubators of Change
The Transparent Society: Ten Years Later
Towards Trustworthy e-Voting: An Open Source Approach?




CALL FOR ESSAYS


Yale Journal of Law  Technology Call for Essays on the Technology Policy of 
the New Administration. 
Deadline: Monday, May 5th


The Yale Journal of Law  Technology (YJoLT) is seeking essay-length 
submissions concerning the technology policy platform of the new American 
presidential administration.  Essays selected for publication will appear in 
the Fall Issue of YJoLT (publication date November 2008).  


Ideal submissions will discuss the priorities and guiding principles that 
American technology policy should follow.  Submissions analyzing a particular 
technology policy issue in depth will also be accepted. 


Essays of less than 5,000 words are preferred.  Please submit all essays to 
yjolt.submissions at gmail.com.  Please include the text CFP Essay in the 
subject line of the email.  The authors of essays selected for publication will 
be 

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

2008-04-06 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 
Stanford law professor, and a free culture advocate, is stepping down from 
his role as CEO of Creative Commons.
 http://www.news.com/8301-13577_3-9909027-36.html 


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

2007-10-16 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 thousands of historic
films and videotapes via the Internet under an agreement the National
Archives has reached with Amazon.com Inc. and one of its subsidiaries.

...The Archives will initially make its collection of Universal Newsreels, 
dating from 1920 to 1967, available for purchase. Thousands of other public 
domain and government films will be made available later, officials said. 

While the public can come to our College Park, Md., research room to view 
films and even copy them at no charge, this new program will make our holdings 
much more accessible to millions of people who cannot travel to the Washington, 
D.C. area, Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein said in a statement.

...Archives and CustomFlix officials stressed that the agreement is 
non-exclusive, unlike the controversial semi-exclusive deal the Smithsonian 
Institution recently struck with the cable television network Showtime. 

That deal upset filmmakers who said it was improper to require documentarians 
using Smithsonian materials to offer their work first to Showtime.





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

2007-10-18 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 two keynotes and an Expo full of 
 technology to check out.

 http://playconference.org




[MCN-L] Magic Lantern Show

2007-10-23 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 Lantern  shows 
 narrate stories through projected color imagery, live music,  and 
 boisterous audience participation.

 Co-sponsored by The Phillips Collection, the French-American  Cultural 
 Foundation, and La Maison Fran?aise.

 Admission: $20 and free for Patrons and Circle members. For more 
 information and to register, contact www.la-maison-francaise.org.



 La Maison Fran?aise is located at:
 4101 Reservoir Road, NW

 Washington, DC 20007




[MCN-L] Photoshop to the rescue

2007-10-23 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 
allegedly showing him sexually abusing young boys. Christopher Paul Neil was 
taken into custody in Nakhon Ratchafima, a town about 200 kilometers (130 
miles) northeast of Bangkok, where he was allegedly attempting to contact 
underage boys, Maj. Gen. Wimol Pao-in said.
 Read more: 
http://www.gigalaw.com/news/2007/10/thai-police-arrest-pedophile-suspect-in.html
 
(Source: CNN.com)




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

2007-11-02 Thread amalyah keshet
Happy to announce that the IP SIG will host this special presentation 
at its annual
meeting in Chicago.  Everyone is (are?) invited:



MCN Chicago 2007  Friday, 5.15pm-6.30pm  IP-SIG Special Event

Special presentation and discussion:  The  PLUS Standards
With Professor Jeff Sedlik, President  CEO, PLUS  Coalition

The PLUS Coalition is an international non-profit  organization on a mission
to simplify and facilitate the communication of  rights information
associated with images. In the Coalition, a diverse group  of stakeholders
and their associations across 26 countries have worked  cooperatively to
create PLUS, the Picture Licensing Universal System.

PLUS is  a comprehensive system of image licensing standards that exists as
a universal  language for the communication of image rights metadata. The
Coalition  welcomes participation by all individuals, associations and
organizations  engaged in creating, distributing, using and archiving
images. The PLUS  standards will allow museums to better manage, preserve
and license images.  MCN holds a seat on the PLUS Board of Directors
(currently filled by Alan  Newman), 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 at imj.org.il
Chair, MCN IP SIG   www.mcn.edu
Blog  www.musematic.net





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

2007-11-25 Thread Amalyah Keshet
For those interested in an excuse to travel to New Delhi:


- Original Message - 
Subject: International Conference on 'Building Knowledge Repositories: 
Cross-Sectoral Collaborations
New Delhi Feb. 2008

 Dear All,
 Please check our website www.niftindia.com for
 details about an International Conference on 'Building
 Knowledge Repositories: Cross-Sectoral Collaborations'
 to be organised by  the National Institute of Fashion
 Technology (NIFT) at New Delhi, India from February 7
 to 9 ,2008.
 For any query for participation please contact the
 undersigned at email id : nadutta 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

2007-11-25 Thread Amalyah Keshet

- 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 one day hands-on course is run by Skillset-accredited training provider 
Electric Lane. Focussing on work in a picture library, the aim is to 
understand and apply digital standards. You will learn techniques for 
assessing and correcting digital files, apply colour management, and improve 
productivity.

SUPPLYING DIGITAL IMAGES - IMAGE PRODUCTION FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS
This one day hands-on course run by Skillset-accredited training provider 
Electric Lane will help photographers supplying image libraries and 
publishers to meet industry  technical and quality standards. Photographers 
will learn to process and correct digital files, apply correct colour 
management, and improve their own productivity.

The training sessions are in Farringdon, London.
Contact Christina at BAPLA  (christina at bapla.org.uk) for more details and 
booking. Book soon as only 8 places available for this session. Costs ?200 
+VAT for BAPLA members and their photographers. ?250 + VAT for non-members







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

2007-11-27 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 
the entire Internet all of the traffic flowing across the school's network. 

Comment by Fred von Lohmann, EFF:

Remarkably shoddy work by the MPAA folks. Reminds me of the rootkit debacle, 
where smart people hire clueless contractors.

It also appears that distribution of the toolkit violates the GPL, and thus 
constitutes copyright infringement. I've notified the appropriate GPL police 
already.



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

2007-11-29 Thread Amalyah Keshet
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 (technically savvy) people can  replicate 
 our tests;
 3. a piece of software that makes testing a bit easier.

 We're considering building additional test your ISP facilities that 
 will make the testing process easier, although it'll always require  users 
 who at least know how to configure their firewalls (i.e., I can  do it, 
 but my Dad can't). Let me know if people think that would be  worthwhile.

 Begin forwarded message:

 Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Release

 For Immediate Release: Wednesday, November 28, 2007

 Contact:

 Fred von Lohmann
Senior Intellectual Property Attorney
Electronic Frontier Foundation
fred at eff.org
+1 415 436-9333 x123 (office), +1 415 215-6087 (cell)

 Peter Eckersley
Staff Technologist
Electronic Frontier Foundation
pde at eff.org
+1 415 436 9333 x131

 Seth Schoen
Staff Technologist
Electronic Frontier Foundation
seth at eff.org
+1 415 436-9333 x107


 EFF Releases Reports and Software to Spot Interference with
 Internet Traffic

 Technology Rights Group Addresses the Comcast Controversy

 San Francisco - In the wake of the detection and reporting
 of Comcast Corporation's controversial interference with
 Internet traffic, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
 has published a comprehensive account of Comcast's
 packet-forging activities and has released software and
 documentation instructing Internet users on how to test for
 packet forgery or other forms of interference by their own
 ISPs.

 Separate tests in October from EFF, the Associated Press,
 and others showed that Comcast was forging small parcels of
 digital data, known as packets, in order to interfere with
 its subscribers' and other Internet users' ability to use
 file-sharing applications, like BitTorrent and Gnutella.
 Despite having been confronted by this evidence, Comcast
 continues to issue incomplete and misleading statements
 about their practices and their impact on its customers.

 Comcast is discriminating among different kinds of
 Internet traffic based on the protocols being used by its
 customers, said EFF Senior Intellectual Property Attorney
 Fred von Lohmann.  When confronted, Comcast has been
 evasive and misleading in its responses, so we decided to
 start gathering the facts ourselves.

 Protocol-specific discrimination gives ISPs a tremendous
 amount of power over the kinds of new applications and
 services that can be deployed by innovators and
 competitors.  To the extent that practices like those
 employed by Comcast change the end-to-end architecture of
 the Internet, those practices jeopardize the Internet's
 vibrant innovation economy.

 This recent interference by Comcast in their subscribers'
 Internet communications is a cause for grave concern, said
 EFF Staff Technologist Peter Eckersley.  It threatens the
 open Internet standards and architecture that have made the
 network such an engine of technical and economic
 innovation.

 In addition to an account of the results of EFF's
 independent testing of Comcast's packet forging activities,
 EFF has also issued a detailed document and software to
 assist other networking experts in conducting their own
 testing.

 If ISPs won't give their customers accurate information
 about their Internet traffic controls, we have to detect
 and document them for ourselves, said EFF Staff
 Technologist Seth Schoen.

 For Packet Forgery by ISPs: A Report on the Comcast
 Affair:
 http://www.eff.org/wp/packet-forgery-isps-report-comcast-affair

 For Detecting Packet Injection: A Guide to Packet Spoofing
 by ISPs
 http://www.eff.org/wp/detecting-packet-injection

 For more on EFF's research into Comcast's packet
 monitoring:
 http://www.eff.org/testyourisp

 For this release:
 http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2007/11/28

 About EFF

 The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading civil
 liberties organization working to protect rights in the
 digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF actively encourages and
 challenges industry and government to support free
 expression and privacy online. EFF is a member-supported
 organization and maintains one of the most linked-to
 websites in the world at http://www.eff.org/





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

2007-04-07 Thread amalyah keshet

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From: Small, Jennifer [mailto:jennifersmall at dwt.com]
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 9:40 AM
To: Misunas, Marla
Subject: Fyi...

New Copyright Database for Orphan Works

Stanford has unveiled a new searchable database that logs the status of
so-called orphan works published in the United States between 1923 and
1963.
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/media_law_prof_blog/2007/04/new_copyrig
ht_d.html
Database accessible at
http://collections.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/bin/page?forward=home

This is great.


Indeed great, for libraries and others needing information on books 
published in the US between 1923 and 1963 whose copyright was 
renewed. (It's not really an Orphan Works database, rather a 
copyright renewal database.)  Alas, for museums needing information 
on works of art, we are as usual left scratching our heads. Stanford 
is nevertheless 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  www.musematic.net




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