Ramblings and webcomics from LeEMS
A settlement has been reached in a U.S. lawsuit with Warner/Chappell Music over the copyright to “Happy Birthday to You” that will put one of the world’s most recognizable songs in the public domain, according to court papers released on Wednesday and a source close to the case.
Source: Settlement over ‘Happy Birthday’ copyright puts song in public domain | Reuters
What is Fair Use Week?Each day teachers teach, students learn, researchers advance knowledge, and consumers access copyrighted information due to copyright limitations and exceptions such as fair use or fair dealing. Fair use and fair dealing are essential limitations and exceptions to copyright, allowing the use of copyrighted materials without permission from the copyright holder under certain circumstances. Fair use and fair dealing are flexible doctrines, allowing copyright to adapt to new technologies. These doctrines facilitate balance in copyright law, promoting further progress and accommodating freedom of speech and expression.While fair use and fair dealing are employed on a daily basis by all users of copyrighted material, Fair Use Week is a time to promote and discuss the opportunities presented, celebrate successful stories and explain the doctrine.While Fair Use Week 2016 will be celebrated February 22–26, we believe that every week is fair use week. Fair Use Week is simply a time to promote and discuss the opportunities presented by fair use and fair dealing, celebrate successful stories, and explain the doctrine.
Source: Save the Date! Fair Use Week 2016: February 22-26, 2016 | Fair Use Week
Her name is Necrophinia, she likes all things dead.
Science Is A Verb Now Shirt
Free access to my recent article:”Copyright Instruction in LIS Programs: report of a survey of standards in the U.S.A,” written with Michael English, until January 14, 2016: http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1S5sBMYb61gqR.
Each time I’ve stepped in a bookstore recently I have been amazed at the plethora of coloring books on every end-cap. I understand it is the new cool way adults can self medicate, but the ubiquity of the things has now cemented in me the idea that I just don’t like to color. Not like that. But if I did, Unicorns are Jerks and Fat Ladies in Spaaaaace would be the coloring books I would choose. There were on my wishlist after all.
Now that I know I don’t color, I have removed them. You should put them on your wishlist instead.
Richard and Shelly told me to draw this.
Richard says my Elvis looks goth.
Our ice cr
eam flavors basically created themselves based on the amazing produce available in September.
Source: Flavors – Salt & Straw
…they are so far away, so very very far.
I’m reading an article as background research for an article that I am writing where the author is quoting me from an article I have already written. Yes.
from: Kluzek, M. (2014). A practical guide to e-journal and e-book supply – a UK perspective. Interlending & Document Supply, 42(1), 13. doi:10.1108/ILDS-09-2013-0026
I am stupidly happy that Google street view finally has a new picture of our house, one that doesn’t include the for sale sign and general junkiness, and …it was taken when we were freshly mowed! How awesome is that?!
Paratext is a concept in literary interpretation. The main text of published authors (e.g. the story, non-fiction description, poems, etc.) is often surrounded by other material supplied by editors, printers, and publishers, which is known as the paratext. These added elements form a frame for the main text, and can change the reception of a text or its interpretation by the public.