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  Someone who spent his life living rough under the sky knew the value of a good thick book, which ought to outlast at least a season of cooking fires if you were careful how you tore the pages out. Many a life had been saved on a snowy night by a handful of sodden kindling and a really dry book. If you felt like a smoke and couldn't find a pipe, a book was your man every time. Cohen realized people wrote things in books. It had always seemed to him to be a frivolous waste of paper.

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  —Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic, p.137.

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fair use (copyright) coming to an LCSH near you

Monday, April 21st, 2008 12:08 pm

Awesome librarian (and friend) Jenna Freedman has been on the LCSH (“Library of Congress Subject Headings”) for a while for its many failures to recognize current topics and language. She just posted about the new and revised headings, including a new heading for Fair use (copyright).

150 Fair use (Copyright) [May Subd Geog] [sp 85046891]
* 450 UF Fair use (Copyright)–Law and legislation
* 550 RT Library copyright policies

You can follow the ongoing saga of feminism, freeganism, and other opportunities for in-cluing the LC, at Jenna’s blog.

algorithmically similar posts:

» Section 108 report released, 2008-03-28 (score:19)
» data mining & online information, 2005-12-25 (score:16)
» Fair Use Network website, 2006-06-15 (score:16)
» saying goodbye to sivacracy, 2008-09-19 (score:16)

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