1.
I own copyright,
so I pwn you!
(and your little library too!)
Dorothea Salo
Special Libraries Association 2011

2.
Disclaimers:
I’m an ugly
American.
And not a lawyer.

3.
biggest threat to
libraries?
Photo: “$5700” by Andrew Magill
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amagill/362201147/ CC-BY 2.0

4.
©
biggest threat to
libraries?

5.
Take a second...
what’s keeping you
awake at night?
(we’ll discuss afterwards!)

6.
Me?
Well, since you ask...
Network neutrality.

7.
Today’s plan
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c in context.

8.
Collection development
Teaching
Digitization
Preservation

9.
Collection development
Teaching
Digitization
Preservation
... hope?

10.
Collection development
Teaching
Digitization
Preservation

11.
HarperCollins
2 6 checkouts

12.
how?
s
r e
i l t
F a
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13.
Lending foreign works?
v.
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c g
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om
CO
you only THOUGHT that
was legal

14.
the perennial
%
serials crisis
3 0 0just got real

15.
how?
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16.
Collection development
Teaching
Digitization
Preservation

17.
e-reserves
vs.

18.
e-reserves
vs. all of
us!

19.
how?
asr
ie
Fu
R IP

20.
interlibrary loan

21.
how?
s
r e
i l t
F a
S

22.
Harvard Business Review
did you really buy what you
thought you bought?

23.
how?
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N t u
CO ir
fa

24.
Electronic theses
it’s FUD season!

25.
Electronic theses
it’s FUD season!

26.
Collection development
Teaching
Digitization
Preservation

27.
Google Books

28.
...so what?
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So what do we do
with print, that’s what.

29.
Special collections
and archives...
...locked away?

30.
Our own worst enemies...

31.
Orphan works

32.
the root problem is
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s a
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33.
Collection development
Teaching
Digitization
Preservation

34.
Sound recordings
Photo: “this is not a social media megaphone” by mikael altemark
http://www.flickr.com/photos/altemark/337248947/ CC-BY 2.0

35.
Multimedia
analog and digital
Photo: ‘“Burned” DVD, microwaved to ensure total elimination of private data.’
by Roman Soto / http://www.flickr.com/photos/ninjanoodles/153893226/ CC-BY 2.0

36.
DRM
Photo: “1984... meet DRM” by Josh Bonnain
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbonnain/523672080/ CC-BY 2.0

37.
why?
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S e c R

38.
Collection development
Teaching
Digitization
Preservation

39.
Collection development
Teaching
Digitization
Preservation
... hope?

40.
COPE

41.
Gluejar and Unbound

42.
.
Are ETDs published?
Y E S
trust me, this is the
outcome we want!

43.
Hathi and orphans

44.
Taking OA seriously
... of course, SLA is
there already!

45.
Collection development
Teaching
Digitization
Preservation
LESSONS

46.
e an!
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m ra
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When copyright holders act as
enemies of all we value,
we need to treat them as such.

47.
u
o. t
a be
all tim
t is
oh
n t
It’s us
We need to watch events outside
libraries, and advocate as
needed.

48.
r
u re
oe
p th .
u w re
o ns s a
t i h
em t
im ja ou
T en m
b ur
oOpen access ain’t free.
If we want it, time to pony up.

49.
e !
th ce
t li
o o
n p
e t
r h
a g
e ri
W py
co
We must resist all attempts to
turn us into enforcers.

50.
w.n
o!
o tu
t s
dn
e
e w
n o
e r
W ou
If we don’t negotiate for what
we write, who will do it for us?

51.
People to watch
• Kevin Smith
• Blog: blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/
• Kenneth Crews
• Twitter: kcrews
• Blog: copyright.columbia.edu/copyright/blog/
• James Grimmelmann
• Twitter: grimmelm
• Blog: laboratorium.net
• Nancy Sims
• Twitter: CopyrightLibn
• Blog: blog.lib.umn.edu/copyrightlibn/
• ARLPolicy (group)
• Blog: policynotes.arl.org/

52.
Thank you!
(and good luck to us all!)
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