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Rights Reversion & Terminations of Transfer
Rights reversion and termination of transfer are two powerful aspects of copyright that can help authors bring obscure or out-of-print books to new audiences online. Copyright attorneys Rachel…
Visit the OCEAN
Meet the Board of OCEAN -- the Open Copyright Education Advisory Network. In this session, the Board of the Open Copyright Education and Advisory Network will share the scope and vision for…
Importance of Workflows in Risk Assessment When Sharing Collections Online
Jody Elizabeth Bailey, Carrie Hintz, Melanie Kowalski, Sara Quigley
Digitizing rare and unique historical documents so they can be shared online is mission-critical work for most cultural heritage institutions, but it can be difficult to complete this…
When Copyright Ends (or Never Was): Understanding the Public Domain
Brandon Butler, Director of Information Policy, University of Virginia Library
Greg Cram, Assistant General Counsel, Director of Information Policy, The New York Public Library
Copyright law’s purpose is to foster the development of a rich public domain of knowledge available to all, by permitting rightsholders to control certain uses of original works…