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What was new and interesting during the week of 1/22/07? (Brief quotes follow article/Web page titles.)

• "@ MidemNet: MPAA, RIAA, CEA Execs Clash Over DRM & Hardware Controls" This conference on the digital music business got off to a bang here in Cannes this morning when the opening-session discussion broke into a tense and sometimes bitchy disagreement about DRM between representatives from music, movie and electronics industry associations. MPAA executive vice president Fritz Attaway and RIAA chairman Mitch Bainwol immediately set their stall against Consumer Electronics Association president Gary Shapiro.
• "Citizendium: The 'Better' Wikipedia Opens Doors" Citizendium is another attempt to create a better online encyclopedia, and it's a direct competitor to the negusa negast of online reference, Wikipedia.
• "DSpace for Managing Digitized Collections" They felt like freaks at first, because DSpace was supposedly designed for preprints etc.

The latest update of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (SEPW) is now available, which provides information about new scholarly literature and resources related to scholarly electronic publishing, such as books, journal articles, magazine articles, newsletters, technical reports, and white papers. Especially interesting are: "Beyond Google: What Next for Publishing?"; "Copyright, Publishing, and Scholarship: The 'Zwolle Group' Initiative for the Advancement of Higher Education"; "Electronic Books and the Humanities: A Survey at the University of Denver"; "E-Prints and Journal Articles in Astronomy: A Productive Co-Existence,"; "Evaluating Research Impact through Open Access to Scholarly Communication"; "If the Academic Library Ceased to Exist, Would We Have to Invent It?"; and Managing Digitization Activities.

What was new and interesting during the week of 1/15/07? (Brief quotes follow article/Web page titles.)

• "Behind the Anshe Chung DMCA Complaint" Outraged by the video and the collection of images used in the news reports—which spread quickly across the Internet—Ailin Graef's husband and business partner, Guntram Graef, fired off a Digital Millennium Copyright Act complaint to YouTube, which pulled the video, citing a "copyright infringement" violation.
• "Can HP Fool Moore's Law?" Researchers from HP Labs plan to publish a paper this month that outlines how it may become possible to substantially increase the performance of certain types of chips, and reduce their power consumption, by replacing the communication wires inside chips with an overhead grid of tiny nanowires.
• "Cap'n Crunch at 63 " During Silicon Valley's hacker heyday in the 1970s, John Draper, now 63, was the legendary phone phreaker who hung out with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and used a whistle toy from a cereal box to generate the squeal necessary to trick Ma Bell's phone system into free long distance.

What was new and interesting during the week of 1/8/07? (Brief quotes follow article/Web page titles.)

• "$100 laptop could sell to public" The backers of the One Laptop Per Child project plan to release the machine on general sale next year.
• "2007 Predictions" This year, Alex Halderman, Scott Karlin and I [Ed Felten] put our heads together to come up with a single list of predictions.
• "Back Issue Digitization Projects (BIDPs)" Yet despite these more recent ventures, large swaths of copyrighted back issues go undigitized, breathing artificial life into back issue distributors (PastPaper.com or MillionMagazines.com) and giving succor to Google-like initiatives to digitize and freely distribute copyrighted but unlikely-to-be-defended serial publications (either because "orphaned" by defunct publishers or neglected by extant ones), unless actively stopped.
• "Copyright Legislation: A Look Forward and a Look Back" Here's a look ahead at copyright and the new Congress by William Patry.

The latest update of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (SEPW) is now available, which provides information about new scholarly literature and resources related to scholarly electronic publishing, such as books, journal articles, magazine articles, newsletters, technical reports, and white papers. Especially interesting are: "Eliminating E-Reserves: One Library's Experience," "Jean-Noël Jeanneney's Critique of Google: Private Sector Book Digitization and Digital Library Policy," "Open Access in 2006," Our Cultural Commonwealth: The Final Report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities & Social Sciences, "The Research University and Scholarly Publishing: The View from a Provost's Office," "Self-Archiving and the Copyright Transfer Agreements of ISI-ranked Library and Information Science Journals," "Using the Audit Checklist for the Certification of a Trusted Digital Repository as a Framework for Evaluating Repository Software Applications," and "Why Digital Asset Management? A Case Study."

What was new and interesting during the week of 12/18/06? (Brief quotes follow article/Web page titles.) Next Flasback on 1/12/07

• "2nd Circuit Affirms Fair Use with Collage Containing Copyrighted Photographs" On October 25th, 2006, in Blanch v. Koons, the U.S. Court of Appeals of the Second Circuit ruled on an important case dealing with the fair use of copyrighted material in an artistic, "collage" setting, affirming that artist Jeff Koons’ incorporation of a photograph into a collage painting was fair use.
• "Australia Court: Link to Copyrighted Material, Feel the Wrath" Bloggers, MySpacers, and anyone else who links to copyrighted material without permission is fair game for legal action, a court in Australia has ruled.
• "Bloggers Beware: Debunking Nine Copyright Myths of the Online World" A handful of myths have spawned practices, particularly among bloggers and website owners, that turn copyright law on its head.

Version 66 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,830 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet.

The SEPB URL has changed:

http://sepb.digital-scholarship.org/

or http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html

There is a mirror site at:

http://www.digital-scholarship.com/sepb/sepb.html

The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog URL has also changed:

http://sepw.digital-scholarship.org/

or http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm

There is a mirror site at:

http://www.digital-scholarship.com/sepb/sepw/sepw.htm

The latest update of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (SEPW) is now available, which provides information about new scholarly literature and resources related to scholarly electronic publishing, such as books, journal articles, magazine articles, newsletters, technical reports, and white papers. Especially interesting are: The Complete Copyright Liability Handbook for Librarians and Educators, "Copyright Concerns in Online Education: What Students Need to Know," Digital Archiving: From Fragmentation to Collaboration, "Fixing Fair Use," "Mass Digitization of Books," MLA Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion, "Open Access: Why Should We Have It?," "Predictions for 2007," "Readers' Attitudes to Self-Archiving in the UK," "The Rejection of D-Space: Selecting Theses Database Software at the University of Calgary Archives," "Taming the Digital Beast," and Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice.

What was new and interesting during the week of 12/11/06? (Brief quotes follow article/Web page titles.)

• "5th Australian Mandate (8th Funder, 9th Institution, 17th Worldwide)" There are now 17 self-archiving mandates worldwide, 5 of them in Australia: A departmental and university-wide one at U. Tasmania, a university-wide one at QUT, and a funder mandate at ARC, joined soon after by another funder mandate (NHMRC) and reinforced by the Research Quality Framework (RQF) (the Australian counterpart of the UK Research Assessment Exercise, RAE).
• "Bill Would Extend Online Obscenity Laws to Blogs, Mailing Lists" Senator John McCain has proposed a bill to extend federal obscenity reporting guidelines to all forms of internet communications.
• "CAIRO Digital Archiving Project, University of Manchester" The University of Manchester’s CAIRO (Complex Archive Ingest for Repository Objects) is a digital archiving project funded by the United Kingdom’s JISC.
• "Blogging 'Set to Peak Next Year'" The analysts said that during the middle of next year the number of blogs will level out at about 100 million.
• "Custom Zen: Enlightened Information Retrieval" Creator of LISZEN—the fairly new SE on the block—Garrett Hungerford used the Google Co-op tool for his CSE, which searches library blogs.

What was new and interesting during the week of 12/4/06? (Brief quotes follow article/Web page titles.)

• "Beatles Mashups—By the Beatles!" George Martin, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have produced an album of Beatles mashups.
• "Blooger Sued for Copyright Infringement" X17 filed suit against Perez (whose real name is Mario Lavendeira) on Friday, claiming the blogger, who’s dubbed himself the "Queen of All Media," knowingly and willfully used X17’s images on his blog without permission from the agency, thereby violating federal law.
• "The Case for OpenID" Full decentralization and a very light-weight cost structure directly attract and catalyze innovation unlike any other approach. In the end, that is why you should pay attention to OpenID.
• "Copyright Laws to Be Relaxed" Australian consumers who record free-to-air television shows and copy CDs on to their iPods will no longer be committing a crime under new copyright laws expected to be passed this week.
• "Distributive Justice and Open Access" Some of the more powerful ethics-based justifications for open access continue to be ones based on the concept of "distributive justice." These justifications can also be regarded as ones based on concepts of "fairness," or "equitable-access."
• "DRM Fading for Music: The Year in Review" So let's pause to recap the year in music DRM's slow demise .

What was new and interesting during the week of 11/27/06? (Brief quotes follow article/Web page titles.)

• "2007 Digital Future Report" This year's report contains a large module looking at on-line communities and social networking in great detail.
• "Creating a National Open Access Policy for Developing Countries" Held in India, in the first week of November, the Bangalore workshop on Electronic Publishing and Open Access (OA), was convened in order to agree a model National OA Policy for developing countries
• "Does My Digital Archives Need a Digital Repository System?" I have had this discussions with colleagues several times over the past couple of years. Somebody is getting ready to prototype a digital archives at their archival institution and the first question they ask is, "which open-source repository system should I use? Dspace? Fedora? Greenstone? Eprints?"
• "dotReader Is Out" dotReader, "an open source, cross-platform content reader/management system with an extensible, plug-in architecture," is available now in beta for Windows and Linux, and should be out for Mac any day now.

What was new and interesting during the week of 11/20/06? (Brief quotes follow article/Web page titles.)

• "Another Directory of OAI-Compliant Repositories" Openarchives.eu is the European guide to OAI-PMH compliant digital repositories in the world.
• "Are We Really Smarter Than Me?" Under the tagline "we are smarter than me," an online collaborative book project has opened itself to public participation. The draw involves asking people to collaboratively write a book with "authors from MIT, Wharton, and thousands of professionals from around the world." Visitors are invited to become authors in the Creative Commons-licensed project.
• "College Presidents, the Latest Bloggers" A growing number of college presidents are setting up blogs, not only to express political opinions but also to criticize some people on the campus and congratulate others, reports The New York Times.
• "Calif Court Ruling Seeks to Protect Bloggers, Web Publishers" In a victory for bloggers, newsgroup participants and other Web publishers, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that individual Internet users cannot be held liable for republishing defamatory statements written by others.
• "Data Curation" Chris Rusbridge is the Director of the Digital Curation Centre at the University of Edinburgh.

The latest update of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (SEPW) is now available, which provides information about new scholarly literature and resources related to scholarly electronic publishing, such as books, journal articles, magazine articles, newsletters, technical reports, and white papers. Especially interesting are: "Author Addenda: An Examination of Five Alternatives"; "Building Preservation Environments with Data Grid Technology"; "Improving Access to Research Results: Six Points"; "Improving Access to Research Results: What's in It for the Institution? Can We Make the Case?"; "Is There a Viable Business Model for Commercial Open Access Publishing?"; "Library Access to Scholarship"; "The Open Access Movement in China"; and "Standards-Based Interfaces for Harvesting and Obtaining Assets from Digital Repositories."

What was new and interesting during the week of 11/13/06? (Brief quotes follow article/Web page titles.)

• "Broadcast Rights and the Public Domain" Imagine an old Charlie Chaplin movie in the public domain. . . . Under the proposed WIPO broadcast treaty, a TV network that took this public domain movie and played it over the air would have the right to sue anyone who taped the movie off of that broadcast and redistributed it.
• "The Broadcast Treaty and Open Access" Ben Ivins of the National Association of Broadcasters argues that because other countries give broadcasters a distinct right in their signal, it is opponents of the treaty who must show that the treaty would be harmful. This argument is exactly backward. In the United States, a proponent of a law that restricts speech has the burden to show that the restriction will advance an important governmental interest.
• "Cataloging v.

What was new and interesting during the week of 11/6/06? (Brief quotes follow article/Web page titles.)

• "Audio from Fred von Lohmann's Talk at USC" Fred is the senior IP attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and his talk, "DRM: What is it good for" was presented to a great crowd as part of my Canada-US Fulbright Chair lecture series at the USC Center for Public Diplomacy.
• "Australia's Proposed Copyright Rules Would Make Search Engines Impossible, Warns Google" AFP reports that Google has warned Australia that if they pass certain a new copyright law that it will set the country back to "the pre-Internet era."
• "Congressional Elections and Copyright Reform: New Dem IP Chair" Mr. Berman, according to the National Journal, can be expected to support restrictive copyright and intellectual property laws.
• "Digital Rights in Question as Business Model" Traditionally, the loudest anti-DRM voice has been the radical "copy-left" movement, a group of advocates who focus primarily on consumer rights.