At the suggestion of some of our members, we will be posting some readings of interest on our blog this summer. When we regroup in the fall, we will set up a time to discuss these articles, as well as other summer news. After you read through an article please post questions or thoughts in the comments section. At the end of the summer, I will gather up these thoughts and place them in another post for your consideration before discussion.
I hope you are all having a fabulous summer!
Reading 1:
- E-Reservations by Steve Kolowich (May 15, 2012)
Other articles of interest:
- Long-Awaited Ruling in Copyright Case Mostly Favors Georgia State U. by Jennifer Howard (May 13, 2012)
- Publishers and Georgia State See Broad Implications in Copyright Ruling by Jennifer Howard (May 14, 2012)
- The GSU decision - not an easy road for anyone by Kevin Smith (May 12, 2012)
- Inside the Georgia State Opinion by James Grimmelmann (May 13, 2012)
It took a while for the Kolowich article to get to this but "the judge said that professors who make less than 10 percent or one chapter of a book freely available to students are standing on firm legal ground." I appreciated that the article looked at the implications of this rule. Will publishers make chapters shorter? I'm wondering what if a professor pulls single chapters from several editions of the same text. Will that be legal? Also, who enforces these rules? How do publishers find out what is on e-reserve across the world?
ReplyDeleteI'm also curious if this will change anything with art books. Does anyone know of a resource that talks about how copyrighted images are handled when it comes to e-reserves?