tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post7097026493571952049..comments2024-03-23T13:09:54.464-04:00Comments on EXCESS COPYRIGHT: Access Copyright Repertoire Look Up Tool - Beta Version - Not Yet Ready for Prime TimeHoward Knopfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18321190334597129416noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-11562424588906661022012-03-05T21:00:54.843-05:002012-03-05T21:00:54.843-05:00I just looked up my first book. It was originally ...I just looked up my first book. It was originally published by a Canadian university press. But the copyright reverted to me many years ago and I have since then had it posted at my university's open-access digital repository--free for the entire world to read, download and copy (subject, of course, to my moral rights). <br /><br />In any event, the book is currently listed at Access's look-up site. Now here's a question: If someone else looks it up and Access gives 'permission' for that person to copy some of it, will Access send a royalty to the Canadian university press that originally published it? WTF! Is this the sort of research that went into Access's look-up site?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-83556886301743135892012-03-05T19:01:30.933-05:002012-03-05T19:01:30.933-05:00Dear Anon @ 01:53:
Hello, again.
Courses and cou...Dear Anon @ 01:53:<br /><br />Hello, again.<br /><br />Courses and course packs and course sites start with individual teachers who design them. If AC is trying to force taxpayers and students to pay tens of millions a year and wants to get away from its troubled indemnity concept and force the user to take responsibility for clearance, it’s surely not too much to require that AC’s supposed repertoire be transparently revealed. That’s hardly a “detail”. Would you buy a house if you didn't know the address and who purports to own it?<br /><br />You are quite right about one thing – I do deny the meaning that you are trying to attribute to me. I don’t know anyone who suggests that fair dealing means general free-for all “free” dealing. But fair dealing IS a very big tent with a very big entrance - notwithstanding efforts to prove the contrary in the SCC and on the Hill.Howard Knopfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18321190334597129416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-92080464215180235042012-03-05T17:58:41.587-05:002012-03-05T17:58:41.587-05:00Apparently it doesn't handle ISBN-13 numbers. ...Apparently it doesn't handle ISBN-13 numbers. You need to enter the older ISBN-10 number to get it to work. Nice to see they're on the cutting edge.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-15611874497942573912012-03-05T17:27:40.009-05:002012-03-05T17:27:40.009-05:00I've been wondering about the vapour-ware Publ...I've been wondering about the vapour-ware Public Domain Registry myself. It seems AC received a lot of positive press attention after announcing this initiative back in 2006, but never delivered! Howard, a follow-up on the registry would make for a very interesting blog post and so I hope you can take this up. If AC is not forthcoming perhaps the project partners, Wikimedia foundation or Creative Commons, could tell us what happened to the project. My feeling is AC is perfectly content to charge the public for access to Public Domain materials and realized that they were working against these interests by providing access to such a registry . Thanks. Alex Homanchuk.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12106040735968114451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-87745352202394283702012-03-05T16:53:13.808-05:002012-03-05T16:53:13.808-05:00At the operational level, no-one has the slightest...At the operational level, no-one has the slightest interest in getting immersed in these details. The idea that hundred of thousands of teachers and millions of students will look up what is in the AC repertoire is a fantasy. So while the "tool" should probably be improved, it won't make any difference to how licensees behave. <br /><br />It's also just a bit worrying that Mr. Knopf seems to be encouraging people to go ahead and copy what they want, which he does by suggesting that fair dealing is all-encompassing. I know he will deny this but it's the clear message that emerges from how he frames his comments.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20803105.post-46657097591606762872012-03-05T12:00:05.004-05:002012-03-05T12:00:05.004-05:00One would think that at the very least UWO and the...One would think that at the very least UWO and the University of Toronto would have insisted on better information about exactly what is covered in this 'repertoire'.<br /><br />I'll provide some further comment on this soon!<br /><br />Samuel TrosowSamuel Trosowhttp://samtrosow.canoreply@blogger.com