Hmmm, still working on that
The readings were interesting, though not entirely useful for what I am doing. It does look like, from what Rosenzweig and Cohen wrote, that I am going to have to settle for links to the news stories, rather than actually archiving the sites as it would be a copyright violation. Over the long term, if I can keep up the site, perhaps I can seek out copyright permissions on each item.
A couple issues are left that none of the readings dealt with. First of all, are blogs copyrighted material? They are obviously a form of intellectual property, but do they have the same legal status as copyrighted material? Or can they be pulled in their entireity as long as the original source is attributed, like a public domain item?
Somewhat related, is forum threads. There is a major orphan work problem. They have multiple authors, usually pseudonymous, and are in a public forum. But do they fall under public use?
March 26th, 2006 at 6:14 pm
Liz, I really am anxious to hear how Peter Jaszi responds to your very good questions about blogs serving as copyright materials. Given that Cohen and Rosenzweig talk about databases, like that of Ellis Island passengers, surprisingly not being copyright material despite the amount of sweat equity that goes into them, I’m intrigued to learn about the status of blogs and forum threads.