[NB: This post originally appeared on the blog hist.net.] The photosharing website Flickr has expanded its “Commons” project. I wrote about the first iteration several months ago describing the decision by the American Library of Congress to allow the public to start marking up images from their collection. Since that time, Flickr (owned by Yahoo!)…
Tag: Copyright
What’s a Professor to Do?
If you’re like me, you probably took four or five classes in graduate school that prepared you for the world of digital rights management, online copyright, fair use, and other legal niceties of the digital age. Of course, that version of me who took all of those courses lives in a parallel universe only loosely…