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This journal explains how social scientists are becoming encouraged to locate, access, and analyze data from data archives worldwide. It talks about how the vast majority of data archives which service the research community deal exclusively with the…

This video mainly talks about the different types of patents used in the American legal system. It also talks about the Trademarks and Copyrights, and the varies reasons they exist.

Chris Needham opens the door on the common copyfraud that occurs when museums misrepresent or restrict rights in a way that go against public domain copyright law. Needham first explains relevant copyright issues such as the copyright of certain…

The project's goal was to research how and whether licensed access to digital content and copyright legislation affected the capability of libraries to offer long-term availability to that specific content, and to advise possible answers for any…

On his radio show, Kojo Knamdi interviews three people involved in the Digital Public Library of America, a project that focuses on digitizing information from libraries, museums, and archives from around the nation and making them available online.…

Fishman's book offers a guide on how to register a work with the copyright office, what works can be copyrighted, and how to avoid copyright infringement, along with other important information.

Digital technologies dominate society today in ways likely not imagined when the first computers emerged in the 1950s. Phones and computers are an integral part of life, and with these technologies we as individuals are always creating new data. This…

In “Proceed With Caution: How Digital Archives Have Been Left In The Dark,” Alyssa N. Knutson covers issues of legality on the subject of copyright within digital preservation. Described by Knutson as a “legal limbo,” digital archives teeter on the…

This paper examines factors that limit the ability of institutions to digitally preserve the cultural heritage of the modern era. The author takes a wide-ranging approach to shed light on limitations to the scope of digital preservation. The author…

This paper represents viewpoints from scholars, librarians, archivists, technologists, lawyers and journalists at the University of Missouri on addressing the problems of preserving born-digital news. The crisis of losing decades of journalistic work…