copyright

Copyright issues are in flux right now. I’d love to hear what you think, what you do, what practices you follow, what community standards you think work best, what you teach your students, what you learn from your teachers about IP . . .

Google Book Search now indicates what books are still under copyright and what ones are not.  As Cameron Parkins says on the Creative Commons website, we can now "use free information to free information."

David Pogue's interesting NY Times blog on filesharing and the different generational responses he is getting to his talk on copyrights and "copywrongs"  makes me revisit incidents in the history of the book.

I just bought C P Snow's Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959) both as a physical book (I hadn't reread it in ages!) and, for $3.95 or so, as an Amazon On-Line Reader. It didn't always work perfectly, but I like it a lot and will buy this way again.