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Free academic images from ARTStor

Found via Academic Commons, ARTstor is planning to soon start offering high-def digital images for academics. This is great news, and somewhat surprising since it seems many companies are trying to crack down on the availability of digital content: Viacom’s lawsuit against YouTube and the RIAA’s influence regarding potential fees levied against online radio are two recent examples.

Post a comment — Trackback URI RSS 2.0 feed for these comments This entry (permalink) was posted on Monday, March 19, 2007, at 1:28 pm by Steve McCann. Filed in Digital Libraries and tagged .

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  1. Steve McCann

    Lawrence Lessig gives some background on the availability of copyrighted content online in an opinion piece: Make Way for Copyright Chaos where he lays blame traces the source for our current state of affairs with the DMCA:

    But it wasn’t YouTube that engineered this shift. It was the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. As the statute plainly states, a provider (like YouTube) need not monitor its service or affirmatively seek facts indicating infringing activity. That burden, instead, rests on the copyright owner. In exchange, the law gives the copyright owner the benefit of an expedited procedure to identify and remove infringing material from a Web site. The provision was thus a deal, created to balance conflicting interests in light of the technology of the time.

    Posted on 19-Mar-07 at 1:44 pm | Permalink

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