Project Manager - Steven

Support - Lisa and Nicole

 

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Notes

• Dan Lee from the Main Library, who is the Copyright Librarian is interested in helping, and Micheal Brewer, the new Undergraduate Services Team Leader (and collaborator on making of the copyright sliders), is also interested
• Dan Lee says the library already has about 50 of the ALA Copyright Sliders and has offered to provide them for workshop participants

 

Questions for discussion:

1. DATE of the Workshop?
   • Wed., 19 Nov. - as discussed in the 01 Oct. PLG meeting, this is likely the best date for the workshop, as it's not the week of Thanksgiving, nor the week of Vet's day. 
     • Dan Lee says he is available this date
     • Micheal Brewer will NOT be able to make it on this date, but offered to provide other support if we need to go with this date
   • Wed., 12 Nov. - another possiblity (?)
     • Good news:  Michael and Dan both could be there
     • Bad (maybe) news:  This is the day after the Vet's Day holiday (and who knows how that could impact our participation?)
   • Wed., 05 Nov. - We did not even talk about this
     • seems kind of soon
2. CONTENT of the Workshop?
   • Steven has an ongoing e-mail exchange with Dan and Michael as to this.
   • Will also contact law professors to see if we can get someone to come and talk about:
     • specific aspects of the law, and perhaps covering international law
     • how it is impacting indigenous cultures, and what role the library profession might play
3. FORMAT of the Workshop?
   • Idea of making it a hybrid may work great:   Have a panel deliver material and answer questions, but also show a video.  There are some interesting and very recent ones that I (Steven) will be checking out this weekend. 
4. NAME for the Workshop?
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Posting the info Steven sent to the listserv (Steven, please edit if necessary)

 

 

 

Perhaps it should more more broadly be called an "intellectual property" workshop, because this term is inclusive of patent issues, such as unjust awarding of patents to corporations seeking to cash in on indigenous medicines.  One of the more striking developments in this regard has been an ongoing effort in India to create a database of traditional medicinal practices and treatments (aka the "Traditional Knowledge Data Library" (TKDL)), and this has been put forth as a blueprint for other cultures as well.  I imagine some of you know about this already, but for those who might not, there's a wikipedia article on it, and... 

Here's a story about it:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/the-battle-for-ayurveda-india-is-racing-to-record-the-details-of-its-traditional-medicine-760086.html

Here's a WorldBank report:  http://www-wds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDSContentServer/IW3P/IB/2007/08/02/000158349_20070802153827/Rendered/INDEX/wps4301.txt

Here is their access form:
http://www.accu.or.jp/ich/en/pdf/c2005subreg_Ind2-3.pdf

This link, purportedly to the database itself (semi-confirmed by checking the Wayback Machine at archive.org) says it's "under construction" now:
http://tkdl.res.in/

 

And while I'm at it, the root of that access form's .pdf file link is another site of interest concerning the notion of "intangible cultural heritage":

http://www.accu.or.jp/ich/en/

 

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Radical Reference did a "Copyright/Fair Use Salon" -- if we wanted to do more of a discussion, rather than a workshop, theirs looked interesting. Either a workshop or a discussion would be great, or we could even do a hybrid? Just suggestions:

"Copyright paranoia is infecting us all these days. The concepts of "fair use," "first sale," other free expression and library-friendly defenses are how we keep that paranoia in check. Come learn from each other's questions, confusions, and strategies in a discussion moderated by Laura Quilter (information law attorney and former librarian). As library activists, how can we protect the public's rights, educate ourselves, and meaningfully effect change?"

 

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Comments / Discussion:

 

-I think the 19th might be best... the 12th is SLA's Solo Librarian Workshop, and the 5th is very soon, with less time to promote it. Would the focus of the workshop then be to educate librarians, educate the community, educate both, and/or start discussion? Would it teach us how to teach the community about copyright? How would the workshop be unique to progressive librarianship, as opposed to maybe something a more general group would do? Would a video take up too much time for people if it's in the middle of the week? Just some things to think about. What time are you thinking the event would start? If possible, I'd like to suggest it start at 645 or 7 so we have a little time for a brief meeting, as that will be the date new officers for Spring will be announced..... looks like a great start to planning so far! -Nicole