Licensing Digital Content: A Practical Guide For Librarians - Hardcover

Lesley Ellen Harris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8170006147 ISBN 13: 9788170006145

Publisher: Ess Ess Publications, 2010

Synopsis

The revised secondedition of this popular one-stop resource covers the basics of digital licensing for librarians in a plain-language approach that demystifies the process. Written from the librarian perspective, this second edition updates licensing terminology and changes in technology, covers opportunities for cost savings, includes further information on the global aspects of licensing, and explains how to educate organizations that have signed license agreements. Librarians play a unique role in license agreements and this book, which also includes a comprehensive checklist for a digital license, gives library professionals and students the tools needed to negotiate and organize license agreements.

About this title

From the Author

In this 2nd edition of Licensing Digital Content, I deal with new technologies as well as further global issues. In addition, I added new FAQs on licensing. The book is intended to provide you with an overview of digital licensing, from a practical perspective, in plain English. This book is a "zoomed in" book based on a chapter in an earlier book, Digital Property: Currency of the 21st Century. This book also complements my other books including Canadian Copyright Law and Digital Licensing Strategies for Canadian Museums. Issues in Licensing Digital Content are also discussed in many articles I and other professionals write and publish in The Copyright & New Media Law Newsletter.

About the Author

Lesley Ellen Harris is a copyright, licensing, and digital property lawyer who consults on legal, business, policy, and strategic issues in the publishing, entertainment, Internet, and information industries. Since 1991 her practice has served a broad range of clients, and she frequently works with libraries, archives, museums, and educational institutions. She often speaks at conferences, and teaches in-person and online courses on copyright and licensing through Copyrightlaws.com and in conjunction with national and regional associations in Canada and the United States. Harris began her career in copyright in 1984 working with a lobbying group interested in revising Canada s copyright laws. From 1987 to 1991 she was senior copyright officer with the Canadian government, in which capacity she helped revise the country s copyright laws. Harris is the author of the books Digital Property: Currency of the 21st Century (1997), Canadian Copyright Law (3rd ed., 2001), Licensing Digital Content: A Practical Guide for Librarians (1st ed., 2002), and numerous articles. Since 1997 she has been the editor of The Copyright and New Media Law Newsletter. She maintains the website Copyrightlaws and the blog Copyright Answers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ess Ess Publications
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8170006147
• ISBN 13: 9788170006145
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 162