Can Our Culture Be Saved? The Future of Digital Archiving
- From: J Flenner <varney@[redacted]>
- Subject: Can Our Culture Be Saved? The Future of Digital Archiving
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:49:11 -0400
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August 21, 2006
Commentary on the Future of Digital Archiving:
Can Our Culture Be Saved? The Future of Digital Archiving
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=920517
by Diane Leeheer Zimmerman, New York University - School of Law
July 25, 2006.
"This article steps behind the Google Library controversy to examine in
depth what the enormous public benefits that would flow from allowing a
broad right of digitization for preservation purposes, and why such a
right by necessity would require changes in existing copyright law. It
also then asks whether we can realistically hope to "save" the fragile
embodiments of our cultural life this way without making some provision
for public access to the databases in which works are preserved.
Finally, the article attempts to identify what the public-regarding
goals of digital archiving for purposes of preservation should be, the
responsibilities that would attach to the right to archive, and the
kinds of compromises between the interests of the copyright owning
community and the public that might be feasible to enable citizens of
the world to create and protect their modern version of the Library of
Alexandria."
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