Intellectual Freedom | Copyright
This easy-to-use workbook is packed with practical, hands-on exercises to guide you towards creating a more privacy-focused library.
"A relatively quick read that will help any librarian make a case for why book challenges are so important to address proactively."
— School Library Journal (starred review)
This book will be useful reading for all archivists and records managers; LIS professionals in libraries, museums and galleries; and students, researchers and genealogists.
"A must-have for anyone in the library and information settings and could also be quite a useful guide for those working in primary and higher education ... Although the book can be read from beginning to end, the author arranged the contents in such a way that it can serve as a ready-reference guide to use whenever questions arise or specific situations occur."
— Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship
Practical discussions of key legal concepts, illustrated using 52 scenarios, will lead you to fast, accurate answers on a range of topics, such as
- barriers to using the TEACH Act provisions in content for online teaching;
- showing a full-length movie in a university class;
- public domain and the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act;
- your legal options when receiving a DMCA take-down notice;
- court interpretations of fair use in three key recent cases;
- Creative Commons licenses, complete with a quick reference chart;
- library rights to license photographs in a digital collection;
- using letters under copyright in a special collections display case;
- a grad student’s right to use in a thesis writing published in their professor’s journal article;
- applying the implied license option to post historical student dissertations in institutional repositories;
- the Marrakesh Treaty provision supporting transfer of accessible works internationally; and
- limiting factors for interlibrary loan.
”An extremely practical and useful guide for librarians dealing with intellectual freedom topics, offering both foundational understanding of the topic and applicable guidance for navigating related situations."
— Choice
"The writing is clear, informative, engaging, and professional. This is one book on copyright that users may want to read through cover-to-cover, not just consult.”
— Booklist
"The text and the references give readers a strong grounding in theories of intellectual freedom to make decisions for themselves.”
— College & Research Libraries
"A very clear, useful, practical, and even a motivational book ... The book can help guide in real life situations and also help guide librarians in crafting well-informed intellectual freedom policies."
— Intellectual Freedom Blog
"Offers a comprehensive approach to this very touchy subject ... [It's] a must buy for every library facing this climate of endless data used in the functioning of the organization."
— Journal of Hospital Librarianship
"The text’s 'here and now' focus on police brutality, peaceful protest, and the extreme views plaguing society, mirror current concerns, as does its roots in the very tenants that form librarianship, free thinking, and intellectual freedom."
— DttP: Documents to the People
