We don’t need to wait until 70 years after I die for people to be able to read it freely.” At that point, I feel like the bargain that I’m getting from copyright has been fulfilled. I think we achieved the monetary value we were looking for. Copyright did for me what it needed to do: it provided an incentive for the publisher to be willing to market and produce the book. “In academia, the currency is attention,” Keele said. Keele said he believes copyright is overly protective and he would advise others to do the same and make their works openly available. The Librarian’s Copyright Companion, 2nd Edition, now available via CC BY license. Hein & Co., was in agreement, as long as the authors were willing to give it first right of refusal for a 3 rd edition. The California-based nonprofit provided a guide to rights reversions that he said made the process smooth and involved simple signatures by all parties. To arrange the transfer of rights, Keele followed the Author’s Alliance’s advice. It’s sold what it will, and the publisher got the money it deserved, so we asked for the copyright back.” “This is what I would suggest to any faculty member. It’s probably been commercially exploited to the point that it will be,” Keele said.
#KYPASS COMPANION ACCESS INTERNET LICENSE#
So after years of being available through controlled digital lending (CDL) at the Internet Archive, the book is now available under the Creative Commons Attribution license ( CC BY 4.0), which means that anyone is free to share and adapt the work, as long as they provide attribution, link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. (Heller wrote the first edition in 2004.) The authors recently regained rights to the book in order to make it open access. Hein, 2012), coauthored with James Heller and Paul Hellyer, covers restrictions on use of copyrighted materials, library exemptions, fair use, and licensing issues for digital media. His book, The Librarian’s Copyright Companion, 2 nd edition (William S. As a law librarian and author, Ben Keele wants to share his expertise on copyright with as many people as possible.
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