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alt="" height="135" width="135"></a>Unless you
work in a law library, you probably don't pay a
lot of attention to laws and legal issues, with
the exception of copyright laws. Copyright laws
have traditionally contained special limitations
that allow libraries to loan books and other
library items, so there are quite a few copyright
<a
href="http://www.librarylaw.com/Copyright_and_Libraries.html">laws
and court cases</a> that have a direct impact on
libraries' ability to do what they do. Now that
intellectual property so often takes the form of
non-print media, however, traditional copyright
laws have been stretched and strained, and
sometimes changed, to make them fit new media.
Some people would even argue that copyright laws
are either: a) being abused, or b) not relevant
anymore. This week we look at a few recent
developments related to copyright that might have
some interest for libraries. </p>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/arts/music/22music-imslp.html">Free
trove of music scores on web hits sensitive
copyright note</a> (New York Times/Daniel J.
Wakin) "Mr. Guo said volunteers checked every
score—15,000 at the time—for copyright
violations. [...] A disclaimer was made to
appear before any score opens, saying that the
project provides no guarantee that the work is
in the public domain and demanding that users
obey copyright law. The site operates from
servers in Canada, where copyright law is
generally looser. 'We cannot know the copyright
laws of 200 countries around the world,' Mr. Guo
said. 'It is up to the downloader.'"</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/son-of-acta-meet-the-next-secret-copyright-treaty.ars">Son
of ACTA: meet the <em>next</em> secret
copyright treaty</a> (Ars Technica/Nate
Anderson) "Canadian law professor Michael Geist
calls it 'everything [the US] wanted in ACTA but
didn't get.' 'For example,' he says, 'the
digital lock rules are the US DMCA, complete
with [the] exact same exceptions (no more, no
less). The term of copyright matches the US term
of life of the author plus 70 years, beyond the
Berne requirement and Canadian law. The ISP
provisions including a copy of the US
notice-and-takedown system as well as provisions
that go beyond US law. In other words, the US
envisions using the TPP [Trans-Pacific
Partnership] to export its copyright law to as
many countries as possible while creating
backdoor changes to its own domestic laws.'"</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/supremes-will-decide-if-public-domain-works-can-be-re-copyrighted.ars">Supremes
to decide if public domain works can be
re-copyrighted</a> (Ars Technica/Matthew
Lasar) "Congress' decision to uphold an
international treaty allowing for public works
to be 'restored' into copyright will create an
atmosphere of uncertainty for libraries, they
warn, caretakers of the public domain. 'Because
it protects our cultural commons, the public
domain is equally essential, in turn, to free
speech, helping to give meaning to the First
Amendment right to receive information,' wrote
the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Internet
Archive in a brief asking the Supremes to hear
the matter."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="https://www.eff.org/files/Golan%20Petition%20for%20Cert%20Final.pdf"><em>Amicus
brief</em> on behalf of Internet Archive in
support of petitioners</a> (brief filed with
US Supreme Court mentioned above [pdf]) "The
Internet Archive files this brief because the
effects of Section 514—both the provision itself
and the radical approach to the public domain
that it represents—pose a significant threat to
the ability of libraries and archives to promote
access to knowledge. The emergence of this
threat is particularly unfortunate now, when the
advent of new technologies is making it more
possible to share public domain works with more
people, in more ways, than ever before—making
the public domain truly 'public.' In
accomplishing this task, libraries necessarily
rely on a robust and static public domain that
will allow them to confidently determine that
they have the right to provide access to a given
work."</li>
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<p style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Terms
fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">Peter B.
Hirtle has posted a very large chart at the <a
href="http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm">Cornell
Copyright Information Center</a> that
illustrates the daunting complexity of current
copyright terms in the United States. </div>
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