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January 26, 2010

As we continue to champion and support open access and open process platforms and practices, I think it is also important that we are also operating with a sound understanding of the copyright and fair use provisions within which we need to operated.  I am in the process of pulling together a number of resources, and will post a few here for everyone to look at.

As Patricia Aufderheide suggested at ELI, this is really an issue of standards that need to be worked out with practices, and that a solid strategy for moving forward is for communities of practice to establish and publish carefully-considered guidelines.  The Society for Cinema and Media Studies has created such guidelines, and I think this is a useful place to start.

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January 26, 2010

A handy reference chart from Cornell that details the complexities of copyright terms for many media products: http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm

January 26, 2010

"The next time you're in your doctor's waiting room, visit the 'Talking With Your Doctor' page on Mobile MedlinePlus to learn how to get the most out of your visit."

http://mobile-libraries.blogspot.com/2010/01/nlm-announces-mobile-medlineplus.html

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