Dorothea Salo discusses several threats facing libraries, including copyright issues, digital rights management (DRM), the orphan works problem, and libraries acting as enforcers rather than advocates. She argues that libraries need to watch events outside their walls, negotiate for their interests, and resist becoming enforcement agents when copyright holders act against library values. Open access is important but requires funding, and lessons show libraries must take an active role in policy debates.

1. I own copyright,
so I pwn you!
(and your little library too!)
Dorothea Salo
Special Libraries Association 2011

2. Disclaimers:
I’m an ugly
American.
And not a lawyer.

4. biggest threat to
libraries?
Photo: “$5700” by Andrew Magill
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amagill/362201147/ CC-BY 2.0

5. ©
biggest threat to
libraries?

6. Take a second...
what’s keeping you
awake at night?
(we’ll discuss afterwards!)

7. Me?
Well, since you ask...
Network neutrality.

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9. Collection development
Teaching
Digitization
Preservation

10. Collection development
Teaching
Digitization
Preservation
... hope?

11. Collection development
Teaching
Digitization
Preservation

12. HarperCollins
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14. Lending foreign works?
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15. the perennial
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3 0 0just got real

16. how?
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17. Collection development
Teaching
Digitization
Preservation

18. e-reserves
vs.

19. e-reserves
vs. all of
us!

20. how?
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21. interlibrary loan

22. how?
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23. Harvard Business Review
did you really buy what you
thought you bought?

24. how?
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25. Electronic theses
it’s FUD season!

26. Electronic theses
it’s FUD season!

27. Collection development
Teaching
Digitization
Preservation

28. Google Books

29. ...so what?
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So what do we do
with print, that’s what.

30. Special collections
and archives...
...locked away?

31. Our own worst enemies...

32. Orphan works

33. the root problem is
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34. Collection development
Teaching
Digitization
Preservation

35. Sound recordings
Photo: “this is not a social media megaphone” by mikael altemark
http://www.flickr.com/photos/altemark/337248947/ CC-BY 2.0

36. Multimedia
analog and digital
Photo: ‘“Burned” DVD, microwaved to ensure total elimination of private data.’
by Roman Soto / http://www.flickr.com/photos/ninjanoodles/153893226/ CC-BY 2.0

37. DRM
Photo: “1984... meet DRM” by Josh Bonnain
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbonnain/523672080/ CC-BY 2.0

38. why?
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39. Collection development
Teaching
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40. Collection development
Teaching
Digitization
Preservation
... hope?

41. COPE

42. Gluejar and Unbound

43. .
Are ETDs published?
Y E S
trust me, this is the
outcome we want!

44. Hathi and orphans

45. Taking OA seriously
... of course, SLA is
there already!

46. Collection development
Teaching
Digitization
Preservation
LESSONS

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When copyright holders act as
enemies of all we value,
we need to treat them as such.

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It’s us
We need to watch events outside
libraries, and advocate as
needed.

49. r
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oOpen access ain’t free.
If we want it, time to pony up.

50. e !
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We must resist all attempts to
turn us into enforcers.

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If we don’t negotiate for what
we write, who will do it for us?

52. People to watch
• Kevin Smith
• Blog: blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/
• Kenneth Crews
• Twitter: kcrews
• Blog: copyright.columbia.edu/copyright/blog/
• James Grimmelmann
• Twitter: grimmelm
• Blog: laboratorium.net
• Nancy Sims
• Twitter: CopyrightLibn
• Blog: blog.lib.umn.edu/copyrightlibn/
• ARLPolicy (group)
• Blog: policynotes.arl.org/

53. Thank you!
(and good luck to us all!)
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