Beyond Fair Use :
For centuries, the fair use doctrine has been the main – if not the exclusive – bastion of user rights. Originating in the English court of equity, the doctrine permitted users under appropriate circumstances to employ copyrighted content without consent from the rightsholder. In the current digital media environment, however, the uncertainty that shrouds fair use and the proliferation of technological protection measures undermine the doctrine and its role in copyright policy. Notably, the enactment of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which prohibits the circumvention of such measures even for fair use purposes, has diminished the ability of fair use to act as a counterweight to a copyright owner’s rights in the digital age.
Recognizing the relatively precarious state of the fair use doctrine, many copyright scholars have rushed to resuscitate the doctrine, offering various ways to revamp fair use. As this Article makes clear, these proposals fall short of the mark. To address the shortcomings of the fair use doctrine in the digital age, this Article reconceives of the policy challenge and takes a fundamentally different tack. Rather than tinkering with the fair use doctrine, this Article proposes the creation of a system of new user privileges that would supplement fair use. Specifically, it crafts a framework of adaptive regulation that would cause copyright owners to dramatically increase the access and use opportunities granted to users. This framework would do so by requiring content owners and distributors to acknowledge user needs and even compete among themselves over the creation of new user liberties. Such an approach, this Article explains, is superior to rival suggestions and can best assure ongoing technological development and the preservation of user privileges in the digital age.
URL : http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1557242
La longue marche de l’information publiq…
La longue marche de l’information publique, de la liberté d’accès aux documents administratifs à la réutilisation commerciale des informations publiques :
La France dispose aujourd’hui d’un cadre satisfaisant pour faciliter la réutilisation des informations émanant du secteur public. En impulsant une nouvelle dynamique pour le secteur de l’information professionnelle, la nouvelle législation ouvre de nombreuses possibilités de développement économique tant pour les producteurs publics que pour les opérateurs privés. Il s’agit aussi pour l’administration, dans le cadre de la modernisation de l’État, de relever le défi de cette ouverture plus large au secteur concurrentiel par la qualité de l’information, par l’adaptation à l’évolution des formats et des méthodes de transmission et par le dialogue avec les sociétés privées et les utilisateurs. […]
Il faut faire largement connaître les droits et les devoirs des différentes parties, institués par les textes de 2005, et apporter des réponses aux questions que pose leur mise en pratique.
URL : http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=DOCSI_443_0218&AJOUTBIBLIO=DOCSI_443_0218
Open Access in Canada: A Strong Beginnin…
Open Access in Canada: A Strong Beginning :
Scholarly open access (OA), one of CLA’s information policy advocacy areas, has reached critical momentum in Canada. New initiatives are being announced regularly in all areas of the open access movement, including OA publishing, repositories and mandates. Established projects are becoming regularized and growing. Most of these initiatives are library-based or are connected to libraries in some way. This article presents some examples of these activities, along with progress highlights from the past year.
URL : http://eprints.rclis.org/16870/1/Feliciter_56.2_-_%239_Open_Access_Canada_published.pdf
ICT enabled independent living for elder…
ICT enabled independent living for elderly. A status-quo analysis on products and the research landscape
in the field of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) in EU-27 : http://www.aal-deutschland.de/deutschland/dokumente/ict_for_elderly_webversion.pdf
Le Guide des Bonnes Pratiques Numériques…
Le Guide des Bonnes Pratiques Numériques : http://www.tge-adonis.fr/wiki/uploads/e/ed/GuideBonnesPratiques_TGE-ADONIS_version1_2009-12.pdf
Boosting cultural heritage online: the E…
Boosting cultural heritage online: the European Commission sets up a Reflection Group on digitisation :
European Commission President José Manuel Barroso has announced that the European Commission will entrust three personalities – Maurice Lévy (CEO of Publicis), Elisabeth Niggemann (Head of the German National Library) and Jacques De Decker (writer) – to come up with recommendations on how best to speed up the digitisation, online accessibility and preservation of cultural works across Europe. This Reflection Group will examine the various ongoing initiatives involving both public and private partners (notably the Google Books project) and copyright issues to find ways to boost the digitisation efforts of the complete collections held by libraries, museums and archives in Europe. These recommendations will ultimately help Europeana, Europe’s digital library, reach a new dimension: today the Europeana portal (www.europeana.eu) already offers access to over 7 million digitised books, maps, photographs, film clips, paintings and musical extracts, but this is only a small part of all the works held by Europe’s cultural institutions. The establishment of the Reflection Group is part of the Commission’s broader strategy to help the cultural sector make the transition towards the digital age. The Group, who will report to Commission Vice President for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes and Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth Androulla Vassiliou, has been requested to submit its conclusions before the end of the year.
URL http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/10/456&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
Libre accès et archives ouvertes. Mise e…
Libre accès et archives ouvertes. Mise en oeuvre des projets.
Texte déposé par Pfister Theophil le 19.03.2010 au Conseil national de la Suisse.
Le Conseil fédéral est chargé, dans son rôle de bailleur de fonds, de renforcer son soutien à la réalisation des objectifs du libre accès et des archives ouvertes et de viser la mise en oeuvre systématique de ces projets. Il évaluera les réglementations nécessaires à cet effet et soutiendra activement les décisions prises. La sécurité des données, l’accessibilité et la recherche dans Internet seront réglementées selon les principes régissant les projets de libre accès et d’archives ouvertes.
URL : http://www.parlament.ch/f/suche/pages/geschaefte.aspx?gesch_id=20103240