Category Archives: Intellectual Property

Liveblogging NITLE, “Scholarly Collaboration and Small Colleges in a Digital Age”, 2nd panel

The panels split into two different sessions, so I’m in a session on developing open-source collections and resources. First presentation is Robert Kieft and John Anderies talking about putting a reference source of Quaker biography into a wiki format. Bob … Continue reading

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Thanks for Nothing

If you want to see how counterproductive the current intellectual property environment can be for scholarly publishing, take a gander at the ACLS Humanities E-Book website. I foolishly inflicted an assignment on my students using this for today’s class, since … Continue reading

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“Citation Plagiarism”

There’s a very interesting entry by Bill Poser at Language Log on the issue of whether there is such a thing as citation plagiarism. (Poser argues no.) Inside Higher Education also links to a very interesting reply by Kerim Friedman … Continue reading

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Archives, Nations, Ownership

I have ambivalent feelings about debates over the ownership of physical objects that have sacred or heritage value to one group or institution and knowledge-producing value to another group or institution, such as the struggle over Native American remains held … Continue reading

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Fun With Intellectual Property Issues, No. 340 in a Series: Aluka

Regular readers have heard me complain before about the straight-up weirdness of the way the cost of research falls on institutions of higher education. Universities directly or indirectly subsidize faculty to carry out research through a variety of means: sabbaticals, … Continue reading

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Liveblogging: Social Computing Symposium

Thanks to the amazing Liz Lawley, I’m here at the 2006 Social Computing Symposium. So I’m going to try something I haven’t done before, and post up notes here on sessions. Right at the outset one thing that makes me … Continue reading

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Kaavya Viswanathan, Christopher Paolini, and Remixing

The first few examples that I read of Kaavya Viswanathan’s alleged plagiarism, I thought, “Well, that’s not so bad, or that a bit ambiguous.” Then I saw more and more examples and the ambiguity went away. Nor, like just about … Continue reading

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Race to the Bottom

There are so many profoundly stupid, self-defeating or slickly corrupt initiatives out there at the moment in the area of intellectual property and digital rights management. The collective impression I get is of a slow form of economic and cultural … Continue reading

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