Licensing

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Licensing

Image Collection Guidelines

November 28, 2007

These are guidelines in the acquisition and use of images in non-profit educational visual resources collections, written by the Visual Resources Association. …

JSTOR Amicus Brief

October 18, 2007

EDUCAUSE joined a broad coalition in filing an amicus, or friend of the court, brief on behalf of the National Geographic Society which seeks permission to reproduce a print collective work in el…

Software Licensing Issues

October 23, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference

This meeting will cover the unique licensing needs of higher education and productive vendor relations. The discussion will explore the challenges users of different computers in more than one venu…

Annual Copyright License—A New Tool for Permissions

October 2, 2007

Colleges and universities routinely struggle to address their copyright licensing needs campus-wide. How do faculty, library, bookstore staff, and others on campus effectively assess and secure t…

Software Regulations

May 23, 2006

This is the software purchasing and licensing policy for Oakland University. This is the software purchasing and licensing policy for Oakland Uni…

RIAA v. The People: Four Years Later

August 29, 2007

In this report the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) provides a comprehensive look at the four-year litigation campaign waged by the RIAA against music fans. The report traces the RIAA campaig…

Plagiarism Detection: Is Technology the Answer?

June 12, 2007 | A session at the EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference 2007

Institutions in the University System of Georgia have shown increasing interest in licensing plagiarism detection technology while expressing concern over costs and legal issues. This session will …

Standing Up for Open Access

January 1, 2007

"Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were perplexed: How could a membership organization that gladly accepts and archives their scholarly work turn around and limit transmi…

(Meta)search Like Google

January 1, 2007

The time has come for libraries, too, to negotiate for rights to index full text. The time has come for libraries, too, to negotiate for rights to inde…

Apple's Jobs Calls for DRM-free World

January 1, 2007

"In a rare open letter from CEO Steve Jobs on Tuesday, Apple has urged record companies to abandon digital rights management technologies." &…