John Mark Ockerbloom
Apr. 11, 2006
Sharing knowledge about copyrights
•Renewal
scans were contributed by many, inventory created by
individual
–Just
using flat files served by Apache
–Thanks:
Greg Weeks, Juliet Sutherland & Distributed Proofreaders, CMU,
Penn, several public libraries
•Many
may need to do copyright research
–Searchable
databases useful for quick lookups
–Registries
useful for pooling information
•Rights
clearance info could also be machine-readable
–See
e.g. rights expression work by Karen Coyle, CDL
–Needs
to avoid inhibiting expression, contributors