Peter Suber on the Corbis/Smithsonian deal: More toll access to public resources: Brett Zongker, Smithsonian and Corbis Enter Media Deal, The San Francisco Chronicle, January 28, 2007. Excerpt: The Smithsonian Institution and Corbis Corp. announced a deal Wednesday to begin selling images from the Smithsonian’s collections for editorial and commercial use through the digital media company. […]
Dan Cohen describes another instance of a public works exploited for private gain: The Flawed Agreement between the National Archives and Footnote, Inc. 
 I suppose it’s not breaking news that libraries and archives aren’t flush with cash. So it must be hard for a director of such an institution when a large corporation, or […]
From Mary Hodder: Berkeley Center for Law and Technology Conference: Conference on Copyright, Digital Rights Management Technologies, and Consumer Protection: Is happening March 9 and 10, 2007. Go register. The last one was great! It was organized by Pam Samuelson and Eddan Katz, who both did an outstanding job. Lots of interesting folks spoke, and […]