Week 13 - Intellectual Property Rights

LESK, chapter 11

 

            Intellectual property rights issues are far from unsolved.    The topic is riddled with legal questions. How much gov't involvement is required in this new digital realm?  Will protection increases innovation or halt these advances?  This chapter does not try to answer but offers a myriad of examples of present solutions as well as future possibilities.  Lesk pulls out the old hard debate question of when is gov't involvement appropriate versus contract and technology solutions?  Democrat or republican?

 

Joseph E. Stiglitz, “Intellectual-property rights and wrongs”, Daily Times, Aug19, 2005. http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_16-8-2005_pg5_12

 

            A balanced view of property and intellectual rights as it pertains to ideas and materials.  Stiglitz argues for ideas behind the hindrance of innovations as well as fairness in idea and material development of products.

 

Clifford Lynch, “Where Do We Go From Here? The Next Decade for Digital Libraries”,  D-Lib Magazine, Volume 11 Number 7/8 July/August 2005, http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/lynch/07lynch.html

 

            A very dramatic article.  I think some would think of it as overly dramatic.  But I do like the set up as to the uncertainty of the digital libraries history, just as its future is surely uncertain. Not in the sense of being in danger.   More along the lines of what will its focus be, which feels rests firmly in broader context in Library and Information Science but the specificity of its purpose does seem to be cloudy. Lynch doesn't make any predictions of what the future brings merely where the future for D-libraries will be.  Location is much easier to predict than future principles.

 

Knowledge lost in Information. Report of the NSF Workshop on Research directions for digital libraries http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dlwkshop/report.pdf

 

            This report is massive, dealing with every varied little essay and article ranging from usage issues, and management and stewardship of the d-library.  And all in the context of the future decade of the d-library.