Rethinking Copyrights for the Library through Creative Commons Licensing

نویسنده

  • Cushla Kapitzke
چکیده

Two recent and related social developments of note for libraries are an upsurge in cultural participation enabled by Web 2.0 media and calls in government policy for enhanced innovation through education. Ironically, these have occurred at the same time that increasingly stringent copyright laws have restricted access to cultural content. Concepts of governmentality are used here to examine these tensions and contradictions. In particular, Foucault’s critique of the author figure and freedom as part of the will to govern within liberal democratic societies is used to argue for better quality copyright education programs in school libraries and library information science education programs. For purposes of teaching and research, copyrights are defined as agglomerations of legal, economic, and educational discourses that enable and constrain what can and cannot be done with text in homes, schools, and library media centers. This article presents some possibilities for renewal of school libraries around copyright education and Creative Commons licensing. He [sic] who receives an idea from me receives instruction without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darken-

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Library Trends

دوره 58  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009