Tag Archives: Copyright and Fair Use

The Productive Scholar: Patents and Patent Searching from a Librarian’s Perspective

Posted on February 10, 2011 by John LeMasney

David Hol­lan­der, Law and Legal Stud­ies Librar­ian at Prince­ton, and Wil­low Dres­sel, Assis­tant Librar­ian at Princeton’s Engi­neer­ing and Furth Libraries, gave a talk on Wednes­day, Feb­ru­ary 9th about the his­tory of patents…
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Lunch & Learn: Arts libraries on the edge with Darwin Scott, Sandy Brooke and Hannah Bennett

Posted on December 13, 2010 by John LeMasney

“These are exhil­a­rat­ing times to be arts librar­i­ans,” said Dar­win Scott, librar­ian of the Mendel Music Library at Prince­ton. Today’s Lunch ‘n Learn ses­sion explored just how exhil­a­rat­ing – and chal­leng­ing it is …
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Lunch & Learn: Creative Commons: Guilt-Free Reuse of Others’ Work with Keith Gresham and David Hollander

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Jon Edwards

Mod­ern copy­right law guar­an­tees authors full rights over their work even with­out the inclu­sion of the © copy­right notice. “All rights reserved” gives authors (for the length of their lives plus 70 years) the sole right to copy their works, … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Lunch & Learn: The Google Book Scanning Project with Trevor Dawes and Marie Wange-Connelly

Posted on May 7, 2008 by Jon Edwards

The Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Library is one of nearly 30 part­ners in the Google Book Scan­ning Project, an effort to inte­grate major library col­lec­tions. Google expects that the project will con­nect researchers with key schol­arly works and resources and that it … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Lunch & Learn: Content Protection and Digital Rights management: Accessing your Media in the Digital Home with Doug Dixon

Posted on December 5, 2006 by Jon Edwards

At the Novem­ber 29 Lunch ‘n Learn, Doug Dixon (Man­i­fest Tech­nol­ogy) pre­sented “Con­tent Pro­tec­tion and Dig­i­tal Rights man­age­ment: Access­ing your Media in the Dig­i­tal Home.” Imag­ine hav­ing a com­pre­hen­sive library of music and movies. And imag­ine being able to lis­ten … Con­tinue read­ing →

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