creativelibrarian.com

The Creative Librarian is a hub for matters important to librarians/information scientists of today. There is a definite lean towards electronic issues, however it isn't restricted to only those. Hopefully this site will also be useful for informing non-librarians on these issues as so many of them affect us all.

Library License

Library License

Grant libraries non-commercial access to copyrighted material on a defined time horizon. Content producers could add a Library License to the terms of their publishing contracts.

via Library License.

The big publishers would be unlikely to pick it up but it would give smaller, independent content owners an option for allowing libraries to use their work. It’s still in the discussion stage so comments would be useful.

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