From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 21:35:34 +0100
Dear Readers: Please note that the LIBLICENSE Model License is now
available as a Draft Discussion Document for comment. It may be read
at the LIBLICENSE web site or downloaded.
Please see: http://liblicense.crl.edu/
Comments can made at the site:
http://liblicense.crl.edu/liblicense-model-license-agreement-commentary/
Or if the comments are lengthy, you may prefer to submit them via an
email message or document as per the "mail to" link or to
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We look forward to hearing from you and welcome your responses
by May 14th.
Thank you, The Model License Working Group
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From: LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 10:48 PM
Subject: LIBLICENSE Model License Revision Underway
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NOTE: We hope to have a draft for comment later this spring.
Ann Okerson
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From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 14:28:47 -0400
From the Center for Research Libraries - CONNECT Newsletter, March 17, 2014
North American Working Group To Revise Model License
Contact: Ann Okerson - [log in to unmask]
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Libraries today must be strongly proactive in shaping the licenses
that govern their campuses' electronic information resources. A
multi-organizational effort is now underway to strengthen libraries'
negotiating position in the e-resources marketplace.
In 1997, the LIBLICENSE project (then at Yale Library and since 2011
at the Center for Research Libraries) cleared a path for librarians by
creating the LIBLICENSE Model License, license-creation software, and
an online discussion group to explore the issues around licensing and
scholarly communication. The Model License was last updated in 2008,
and while the companion software has grown less functional as
operating systems change, the discussion group remains lively and
collegial, signaling the continuing importance of these issues.
Now, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a vigorous
overhaul of the Model License is in progress under the auspices of the
Center for Research Libraries. The license, which has been widely used
and adapted by libraries and consortia in the United States, presents
a negotiating framework designed to help libraries identify and
incorporate in their licenses terms that provide readers the widest
possible access to their chosen information resources, while
supporting the fair use provisions of the US Copyright Act.
CRL's Advisor on Electronic Strategies, Ann Okerson, who has led the
project since its inception, has formed a team of distinguished North
American practitioners and experts, representing key institutional
partners, who together began the rewrite effort in fall 2013. The
group includes Ivy Anderson (California Digital Library); Julia
Blixrud (Association of Research Libraries); Craig Olsvik (Canadian
Research Knowledge Network); Tracy Thompson (New England Law Library
Consortium); and Christa Williford (Council on Library and Information
Resources). Lisa Macklin (Emory University) is the project's legal
advisor and specialist.
The group will make an initial draft version available for comment by
late spring 2014, and will work actively to bring the discussion to
colleagues across the academic community. By summer, the comments will
be integrated and the new Model License released through the CRL
website. The software that enables users to build their own agreements
based on the Model License standard language will also be completely
rewritten and released later in 2014. The software has proven
invaluable to librarians involved in licensing, and has served as a
practical training tool in library and information schools as well.
The development team is excited by the prospect of providing the
library community with new tools and resources to enable colleagues in
many institutions to better serve their user communities. CRL is
indebted to The Mellon Foundation for its support of this project.
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