An edition of Acquiring copyright permission to digitize and provide open access to books (2005)
Acquiring copyright permission to digitize and provide open access to books
By Denise Troll Covey
Publish Date
2005
Publisher
Digital Library Federation Council on Library and Information Resources
Language
eng
Pages
63
Description:
What are the stumbling blocks to digitization? Is copyright law a major barrier? Is it easier to negotiate with some types of publishers than with others? To what extent does the age of the material influence permission decisions? This report, by Denise Troll Covey, principal librarian for special projects at Carnegie Mellon University, responds to many of these questions. It begins with a brief, cogent overview of U.S. copyright laws, licensing practices, and technological developments in publishing that serve as the backdrop for the current environment. It then recounts in detail three efforts undertaken at Carnegie-Mellon University to secure copyright permission to digitize and provide open access to books with scholarly content.