Presentation at Online Northwest 2012
Empowered content creators – including authors, librarians, institutions and others – are working to reform and reclaim digital copyright on terms that take into account the dynamic shift from physical to digital content consumption. This session will highlight innovators and activists in this space and will equip attendees to advocate for and seek solutions that meet the needs of their user communities and address the imperative for digital copyright reform.
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DIY Digital Copyright Reform: Towards a Critical Mass of Authors, Librarians, and Institutions
1. DIY Digital Copyright Reform
Towards a Critical Mass of
Authors | Librarians | Institutions
Image: Horia Varlan via Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/horiavarlan/4839454263/
2. What’s at Stake
“Sharing”
Xkcd.com/956
A WEBCOMIC OF ROMANCE,
SARCASM, MATH, AND LANGUAGE.
3. U.S. Copyright Context
“…to secure to literary authors their
copyrights for a limited time."
1790 – 1st Copyright Law enacted; Term = 14 yrs.
1831 – Copyright term extended to 28 years
1978 – Life of the author + 50 years
1998 – Life of the author + 70 years
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1a.html
4. Image: Cold Storage on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/coldstorage/3168760792/
5. A Tale of Takedown
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10. Neil Gaiman
on Copyright, Piracy and the Web
Video courtesy Open Rights Group
http://zine.openrightsgroup.org/features/2011/video:-an-interview-with-neil-gaiman
Alt text - The whole wide world A world of patronsWhen I devised this session for Online Northwest, I looked at the issue of copyright in the digital era from my librarian silo. I saw efforts toward a new paradigm being made among my own colleagues, among the authors who make our profession possible, and among institutions (many with “library” in their name). But on January 17th, 2012, I realized there are allies of all stripes and that if we are to remain a respected profession of information-finders, we must in the age of the internet, view the world as our patronage.
a U.S. House bill that would give the Department of Justice the authority to demand that ISPs block sites accused of hosting pirated content more than 115,000 websites altered millions of web pages to stand in opposition to SOPA and PIPA, the Internet blacklist bills.