Mass Digitization

changing copyright law, policy and practice

Archive for the 'DRM' Category

Georgia Harper

Business models that work with the network’s strengths instead of against them

Although mass digitization project proponents do not, for the most part, have the power to change the law (with the obvious exception of the Google Book Search project), their collections, once digitized and made freely available, contribute to the pressure on content industry business models. As more and more images of valuable cultural artifacts, more [...]

Georgia Harper

Mass Digitization: Introduction

Last [summer, June, 2007], at the International Creative Commons Summit in Dubrovnik, Croatia, Lawrence Lessig made a stunning announcement: he is going to retire from copyfighting and take up a new career, fighting for a new issue. He's going to stay involved with Creative Commons as its CEO, but from now on, he's working to [...]