tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338174527262061848.post317710346619166185..comments2023-09-29T08:51:56.163-07:00Comments on Coyle's InFormation: 1923Karen Coylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02519757456533839003noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338174527262061848.post-86133148468448403992009-12-11T03:31:20.688-08:002009-12-11T03:31:20.688-08:00My understanding is that reproductions of public d...My understanding is that reproductions of public domain works receive copyright protection in the UK and possibly other countries. Therefore, Google would only be able to make the full text available of reprints not published in such countries.<br /><br />It's worth noting that <a href="http://www.hathitrust.org/" rel="nofollow">HathiTrust</a> is reviewing the copyright status of many manifestations and will do so by request if a user submits a request for review through the HathiTrust interface. So anyone is welcome to do so for copies of Moby Dick that you believe to be in the public domain.Kevin Hawkinshttp://www.ultraslavonic.info/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338174527262061848.post-7065494906038769022009-11-25T10:12:06.330-08:002009-11-25T10:12:06.330-08:00jm,
I did some work on metadata for copyright ass...jm,<br /><br />I did some work on metadata for copyright assessment when I was with the California Digital Library. This page links to documentation and a schema:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/rights/schema/" rel="nofollow">copyrightMD</a><br /><br />The key thing is that it doesn't attempt to determine if something is or isn't under copyright -- instead, the goal is to provide users with whatever information the archive or library does have, rather than just leaving users on their own to figure things out. Presumably, over time more information could be filled in and it would get easier for users to know the status of the item. There's no reason why this couldn't be associated with expressions, in the FRBR sense.Karen Coylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02519757456533839003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338174527262061848.post-9397605363690947512009-11-25T09:06:25.483-08:002009-11-25T09:06:25.483-08:00Nice post, and also brings up an issue that I'...Nice post, and also brings up an issue that I've been worrying about with our computer games archiving project. The relationships which should exist between intellectual property constructs and FRBR entities are not, to my mind, at all clear, and it could be that the legal worldview and the bibliographic one are fundamentally at odds here. Copyright protects "original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression" and specifically does not protect ideas of concepts, which would appear to mean that copyright adheres at the expression level in FRBR terms. But there are distinctions we make between different manifestations that would not be considered as separate, independently copyrighted works in the legal sense. And accurately dealing with the issues of copyrights in composite works such as you describe, and issues such as dependent copyrights in translations, make everything even nastier. It was interesting to see Blizzard and Microsoft give their respective machinima communities blanket licenses for use of their IP in creating machinima, but also having to tell the community that they don't actually own the music in their games so they can't grant permissions for that. I'd really like to see someone/some group pick up the issue of intellectual property law and FRBR and provide some guidance on how we should be recording this information.jmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12725535284275473354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338174527262061848.post-23785927836900916772009-11-24T08:05:27.866-08:002009-11-24T08:05:27.866-08:00Great post, Karen! So much of the debate (certain...Great post, Karen! So much of the debate (certainly on the NGC4lib mailing list) around FRBR has been relatively academic -- but the issue of copyright vs. public domain and the need to identify things at the Work level is a great, pragmatic, real-world example.MJ Suhonosnoreply@blogger.com