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The End of Library Ownership? A Fair Use Week Discussion Monday, February 22 at 4PM ET!
Register now for a special Fair Use Week discussion on Monday, February 22 at 4PM ET with Meredith Rose (Public Knowledge), Kyle Courtney (H
Hey librarians! This is for you! Or anyone pissed off at the way libraries are getting screwed over by digital content licensing (trust me, it's really fucked up).
Tagging @sdlibrarian and @corinnetags @amysnotdeadyet and @earlgreytea68 just because
Industry Leaders Call Out Outdated Systems Slowing Innovation Across Sectors
Access vs. Control: Rethinking Academic Publishing For Derek Pankaew, CEO of Listening.com, the issue lies in how knowledge is distributed. Much of the world’s academic research is publicly funded, yet access remains restricted behind paywalls or institutional subscriptions. According to Pankaew, this creates unnecessary friction for independent learners, startups, and professionals outside…
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Digital Dilemma: Can Restrictive Licensing of Ebooks Destroy the Spirit of Libraries?
This system, dubbed the “Netflix model,” poses several problems.
by Ananyaa Bhowmik
According to Overdrive, people checked out 662 million ebooks and other digital media from libraries in 2023, a 19% rise from the previous year. However, even as ebook lending explodes, libraries across the United States share concerns that publishers’ current restrictive licensing policy could spell doom for the future of libraries.
What Restrictive Licensing Means for the Future of Libraries
Libraries have long been learning centers and literary preservation hubs for countless cultures worldwide. These facilities would acquire and subsequently distribute physical copies of texts, a system that promotes the preservation of historical works and languages that could have otherwise disappeared.
While many places started adding digital media, like ebooks, audiobooks, or music, to their catalogs years ago, COVID-19’s lockdown protocol propelled their popularity, as libraries could continue remotely lending texts. Despite ebook lending’s booming popularity, this growth has pitted libraries against publishers and authors as they debate how much control the former should have over digital material distribution.
Libraries today cannot outright own an ebook; libraries must subscribe to digital licensing contracts, requiring them to pay per checkout and limit ebook copy quantity. This policing, an often cost-prohibitive and labor-intensive process, may hamper libraries’ normal functioning given budgetary constraints libraries and red tape.
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The Roald Dahl censorship controversy means some readers are now seeing "problematic" language automatically changed in their eBooks.
Roald Dahl eBooks automatically updated: Report
Updating newly printed editions of the Roald Dahl books, and removing “problematic” phrases and terms like “fat” or “ugly” is one thing. But automatically updating the eBook versions of these books that people might have purchased in expectation of getting the classic, original edition of Dahl’s tomes?
George Orwell had no idea how right he was.
This is as good a time as any, by the way, to offer a reminder that tends to keep escaping people — it’s that buying an eBook from a digital retailer like Amazon does not mean you are buying a book that you now own entirely yourself. You are buying, instead, the privilege of licensing a digital version of that book — it is in no way similar to that stack of novels on the nightstand by your bed.
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U.S. Copyright Office Names Digital Licensing Coordinator
U.S. Copyright Office Names Digital Licensing Coordinator
At the same time that the Copyright Office designated the group led by the National Music Publishers Association to build and operate the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC), it also named the group consisting of Spotify, Amazon, Google, Apple and Pandora to the role of Digital Licensing Coordinator, which also was created by the Music Modernization Act (MMA).
The Copyright Office noted that…
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