Librarian Way

In preparation for writing a research paper on copyright for my government documents class, anything having to do with copyright is on my radar. A poster to the Web4Lib electronic list pointed out the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse list of Web sites that have requested removal of some sort from Google: Google and the DMCA — Chilling Effects Clearinghouse. The Chilling Effects Clearinghouse is “a collaboration among law school clinics and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.” In their about us, they state, “Chilling Effects aims to support lawful online activity against the chill of unwarranted legal threats.”

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a donor-supported, non-profit membership organization that “was created to protect freedom in an increasingly digital world.”

DMCA is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which most of us learned about in the SLIS library 202 or library 200 classes.

Other resources:
U.S. Copyright Office
In order to understand this better, I am currently reading Lawrence Lessig’s The Future of Ideas.

Agence France Presse (AFP) claims copyright infringement and is suing Google for $17.5m. PCWorld.com - Google Removing Agence France Presse From Google News.

Research update: [via Web4Lib electronic list]
Virginia Journal of Law and Technology — See the Virginia Journal of Law and Technology - Articles See: Application of the DMCA Safe Harbor Provisions to Search Engines, by Craig W. Walker. 9 Va. J.L. & Tech. 2 (2004)

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