http://bclainfopolicycommittee.wordpress.com The (unofficial) and relaunched blog of the BCLA Information Policy Committee Mon, 13 May 2013 16:08:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://bclainfopolicycommittee.wordpress.com/2013/01/13/the-last-days-of-aaron-swartz/#comment-958 Mon, 13 May 2013 16:08:21 +0000 http://bclainfopolicycommittee.wordpress.com/?p=259#comment-958 […] employees of other government libraries, and government scientists” and one commending the life and work of Aaron Swartz. Both resolutions passed but there was a significant moment when our chair was asked what exactly […]

]]> http://bclainfopolicycommittee.wordpress.com/2013/04/13/access-copyright-versus-york-week-in-review/#comment-794 Sun, 14 Apr 2013 17:32:01 +0000 http://bclainfopolicycommittee.wordpress.com/?p=475#comment-794 An update to this post, which doesn’t have any pro-Access Copyright statements linked to. Quill & Quire’s reporting frames the lawsuit as being “intended to staunch tens of millions of dollars in lost royalties.” Royalties which would, presumably, be used by AC to sue universities, but there you go. http://www.quillandquire.com/google/article.cfm?article_id=12480 I also refer back to the CAUT statement where they stress that universities not dealing through AC are making other arrangements that work with the Supreme Court’s decisions on Fair Dealing.

]]> http://bclainfopolicycommittee.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/access-copyright-sues-york-university/#comment-785 Sat, 13 Apr 2013 16:47:07 +0000 http://bclainfopolicycommittee.wordpress.com/?p=469#comment-785 [...] had a week of responses to the Access Copyright (AC) lawsuit against York University, and predictably they haven’t been very supportive of AC’s decision to defend what the [...]

]]> http://bclainfopolicycommittee.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/access-copyright-sues-york-university/#comment-706 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:42:17 +0000 http://bclainfopolicycommittee.wordpress.com/?p=469#comment-706 [...] we posted about it last night, Michael Geist has written specifically about this new lawsuit by Access Copyright against York [...]

]]> http://bclainfopolicycommittee.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/ubyssey-explainer-on-access-copyright/#comment-689 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 01:49:48 +0000 http://bclainfopolicycommittee.wordpress.com/?p=449#comment-689 [...] If you don’t know why a university would not join up with Access Copyright, check out this profile that talks about UBC’s approach (we linked to it a little while ago). [...]

]]> http://bclainfopolicycommittee.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/fresh-possibly-bizarre-activity-in-mellen-press-vs-dale-askey-lawsuit-situation/#comment-584 Sat, 30 Mar 2013 05:16:20 +0000 http://bclainfopolicycommittee.wordpress.com/?p=459#comment-584 [...] Besides the blogpost removals, it seems that Edwin Mellen Press is making a digital land grab on Dale Askey domains as reported on the Digital Shift. A list of even more domains that EMP owns and, which relate to theMcMaster-MellenControversy, are linked off the blog post: Fresh (Possibly Bizarre) Activity in Mellen Press vs Dale Askey lawsuit situation. [...]

]]> http://bclainfopolicycommittee.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/300/#comment-580 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:29:15 +0000 http://bclainfopolicycommittee.wordpress.com/?p=300#comment-580 [...] content with suing librarian Dale Askey for his opinion (see BCLA’s statement on the issue), Edwin Mellen Press is sending its lawyers out (or at least letters from the lawyers) to get blog [...]

]]> http://bclainfopolicycommittee.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/library-and-archives-canada-code-of-conduct-followup-post-3-piling-on/#comment-579 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:23:24 +0000 http://bclainfopolicycommittee.wordpress.com/?p=447#comment-579 [...] attention towards the muzzling of Library and Archives Canada’s professionals that last week did, but that isn’t to say nothing happened for us to link [...]

]]> http://bclainfopolicycommittee.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/library-and-archives-canada-code-of-conduct-followup-post-2-balancing/#comment-578 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:23:22 +0000 http://bclainfopolicycommittee.wordpress.com/?p=444#comment-578 [...] media attention towards the muzzling of Library and Archives Canada’s professionals that last week did, but that isn’t to say nothing happened for us to link [...]

]]> http://bclainfopolicycommittee.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/library-and-archives-canada-code-of-conduct-followup-post-1-use-your-ears/#comment-577 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:23:19 +0000 http://bclainfopolicycommittee.wordpress.com/?p=346#comment-577 [...] and media attention towards the muzzling of Library and Archives Canada’s professionals that last week did, but that isn’t to say nothing happened for us to link [...]

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