From: "Hansen, Dave" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 17:03:05 +0000 Hi all, Below is a link to a survey on how libraries and archives interact with the copyright notice and takedown system. If you are a librarian or archivist that has any experience with this, I encourage you to fill this out. It is often difficult to find good data about how the copyright system is working or not working, especially with respect to libraries and archives. This is an opportunity to help address that problem, albeit on a narrow (but very interesting) question. Thanks, Dave --- Dear Librarian or Archivist, We are researchers studying copyright notice and takedown procedures, and how they work in practice for different participants in the system. We’re conducting surveys of online service providers to learn more about the evolution of copyright notice and takedown practices in the past several years. We’re hoping you can help us develop a better account of how practices around copyright notice and takedown, as experienced by memory institutions such as libraries and archives, have evolved in the last few years. We would be grateful if you--or someone with responsibilities in this area at your institution--can spend about 20 minutes answering questions about your institution’s experience. You should be able to answer almost all of them off the top of your head. A few might require some brief research or deliberation. Libraries have traditionally received few takedown notices, but this may be changing with increasing moves to e-books, open access repositories, online offerings, and networked “hubs” for materials. Further, some libraries provide basic Internet access for many in the community, and may see notices in this role. In addition, some university libraries historically (and sometimes still today) serve as the IT hub for the college or university, and thus manage notices for the entire system. Responses will be confidential--although in some cases we may follow up to request explicit permission to attribute quotes or details. Otherwise, published results will be limited to generalizations based on the responses. Here’s the survey link: https://columbiataa.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3W1Ix7sS68CtqV7 If you can make the time, please do so as soon as possible. We hope to wrap up by the end of April. We would also welcome any help circulating this note to your colleagues and peers at other institutions--inside or outside the US. We are hope to develop as broad a picture as possible of the safe harbor landscape. The survey is part of a larger project on notice and takedown led by researchers at UC Berkeley and Columbia University. If you are interested in our work, more information is available at www.takedownproject.org. Please send any questions to Brianna Schofield (below). Best regards, Jennifer Urban School of Law, University of California, Berkeley [log in to unmask] Joe Karaganis The American Assembly, Columbia University [log in to unmask] Brianna Schofield School of Law, University of California, Berkeley [log in to unmask] Kristoff Grospe The American Assembly, Columbia University [log in to unmask] ---------- David R. Hansen Reference Librarian & Clinical Assistant Professor, UNC School of Law Digital Library Fellow, UC Berkeley School of Law [log in to unmask] 919.962.1605 (o)