In consultation with the Library Copyright Office, the University of Michigan Medical School Public Relations and Marketing has adopted a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license for all of the images in their Health System ImageBank, http://www.med.umich.ed
Graduate Student Discovers Arabic Manuscript in al-Maqrizi’s Own Hand
Noah Gardiner, a third-year graduate student in the [Near Eastern Studies] Department’s AAPTIS division, is a member of the team that is re-cataloguing and digitizing our Library’s splendid collection of Islamic manuscripts. (This three-year project, “Collaboration in Cataloging: Islamic Manuscripts at Michigan,” is funded with a grant from the Mellon Foundation, see http://www.lib.umich.edu/collaboration-cataloging-islamic-manuscripts-michigan and http://www.lib.umich.edu/islamic/ .)
On July 30, MPublishing hosted the first Copyright Camp, an unconferece that attracted people from the library, the university, and a wide range of writers and creators from across Michigan.
The first sale doctrine is an aspect of copyright law that permits libraries to lend books and other materials. There is some alarm that the right is being eroded in the arena of ebooks - as ebooks are subject to licenses that define whether and how the consumer may transfer or share ebooks. The Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) announced toda
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Allee, Nancy, Kristine Alpi, and E. Hatheway Simpson. “Evidence-based Public Health: Finding and Appraising Relevant Resources.” Medical Library Association Annual Meeting. May 2010. Continuing Education Course.
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by Jeffrey Mervis on May 5, 2010
Pamela Samuelson, Professor at Berkeley Law School and School of Information, came to the University of Michigan to discuss the Google Book Settlement and its implications for copyright reform. Professor Samuelson said that her talk “explains why certain dysfunctional aspects of U.S. copyright law contributed both to the Google Book Search project and to the settlement of the Authors Guild lawsuit, and why the proposed settlement would achieve some copyright reform, although at a cost that may not be worth paying.” See http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~pam/.
The White House Office of Science & Technology Policy opened a public forum to discuss options for improving public access to results of federally funded research last month.
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