CATS has a cow
Copyright: culture enabler or culture impinger? We report, you decide. Also lacunae, crimes, and lots of opportunities.
Need an AI copyright lawsuit data viz? Wired has you covered.
The internet has become a series of lacunas.
Howto: make more diverse digital scholarship. The Library Publishing Coalition has some data.
So long Elsevier, it’s been expensive to know you.
Without copyright, we would be “a less inspired and less informed society” says corporate lawyer for big five publishers. O RLY?
Who broke copyright? We have a suspect.
How not to do crimes: an inadvertent lesson from Meta.
Jobs and Opportunities
- Assistant Director for Research and Data Education, IU Ruth Lilly Medical Library
- Resource Engagement and Acquisitions Librarian, Hofstra University
- Life Sciences Librarian, NYU
- Librarian for Journalism and Media, Culture and Communication, NYU
- AI Legal Fellow, Authors Alliance
- Grants for IP research!
- Counsel for Collections and Services, Internet Archive
- Policy Counsel, Internet Archive
- Graduate Clinical Teaching Fellowship, Georgetown
- Outside the Lines is a publication of, for and by the open publishing community and they're taking pitches
- Barnard Library Research Awards
- Call for Proposals to Community-Based Archives from the Mellon Foundation
Events
- Public Domain Day Celebration January 22, in person in San Francisco
- And Singin' in the Public Domain, January 22 online
- e-Resource Licensing Explained: An A–Z Guidebook for Libraries—Book Launch, January 27, online
- Thrower Symposium at Emory Law, Febuary 6, Emory University, in person
- NISO Plus 2025, February 10-12, Baltimore, in person
- Come hang with us at Necromancers of the Public Domain!, February 12, NYC, in person. (We're even smarter and funnier in person.)
- RightsCon, February 24-27, Taipei, in person (I mean, maybe some of you are near Taipei?)
