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Digital Rights Management:information access roadblock
Jason Puckett, Georgia State UACRL webcastMarch 1, 2011
(me)[email protected]@librarianjasonPSN: LibrarianX(not me)
(not me)
(not me)
(Spoiler alert: DRM=bad)
what's DRM?technology thatprevents copyingrestricts information access
flickr.com/photos/gregoryh/152014043
how it works
flickr.com/photos/ebmorse
More about cryptography and DRM by Cory Doctorow:craphound.com/msftdrm.txt
flickr.com/photos/osuarchives/2709973933
"Oh please god not microfilm. Please.“ –GSU professor, in an email to me
format informs utility
flickr.com/photos/jcolman/341959852
flickr.com/photos/spike55151/89074304
format informs utility
DVD DRM:•region encoding•CSS (Content Scramble System)
what can DRM restrict?
flickr.com/photos/jbonnain/523672080
copyingdisplayingcopy/paste/printusage limitations
It also allowsmonitoring usagedeleting files…and?
copyright imbalance
flickr.com/photos/caitlinburke/2157925747
fair usenoncommercial/educationalnature of the workamount usedeffect on the value
flickr.com/photos/arielmartini/5230086098
Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
•Text of the DMCA: copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf•Info from Electronic Frontier Foundation: eff.org/issues/dmca•Latest DMCA exemptions: loc.gov/today/pr/2010/10-169.html
one-source devices“tethered appliances”
flickr.com/photos/foxtongue/23277541
Perlow, Jason. 2010. EPUB: The final barrier for Kindle Adoption. ZDNet. August 20. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/epub-the-final-barrier-for-kindle-adoption/13804.
user experience
disability accessAdobeMicrosoftAmazon
can disable read-aloud functions
preservation
xkcd.com/488
breaking news: HarperCollins26 checkouts per ebook purchase
boycott movement: boycottharpercollins.com
Twitter hashtag: #hcod
many more links: librarianbyday.net/2011/02/25/publishing-industry-forces-overdrive-and-other-library-ebook-vendors-to-take-a-giant-step-back/
false metaphors
flickr.com/photos/bendodson/5464738963
Colbow, Brad. 2010. Why DRM Doesn’t Work. March 1. http://bradcolbow.com/archive/view/the_brads_why_drm_doesnt_work/?p=205.
better models of DRM
flickr.com/photos/apwizard/707136203
“social DRM”digital watermarkprivacy?
“Social DRM: Watermarking and Ex-Libris”http://blog.feedbooks.com/?p=82
Image: Alexei Kouprianov
DRM & games: Steam
what should we do about it?
flickr.com/photos/diginux/164315353flickr.com/photos/inju
“Seventy percent of Springer’s business comes from research libraries…
“We showed them our original plans and they said, ‘Start over,’ with no DRM…
“Our policy is to give our customers whatever they want.”
Reid, Calvin. “Libraries Say ‘No DRM’; Springer Agrees.” Publishers Weekly, October 29, 2010.
full text at librarianinblack.net/librarianinblack/2011/02/ebookrights.html
Every eBook user should have the following rights:
• the right to use eBooks under guidelines that favor access over proprietary limitations
• the right to access eBooks on any technological platform
• the right to annotate, quote passages, print, and share eBook content within the spirit of fair use and copyright
Digital Rights Management (DRM), like a tariff, acts as a mechanism to inhibit this free exchange of ideas, literature, and information.
As a customer, I am entitled to be treated with respect and not as a potential criminal. As a consumer, I am entitled to make my own decisions about the eBooks that I buy or borrow.
the eBook User’s Bill of Rights
readers’ advisory
craphound.com/content remix.lessig.org thepublicdomain.org
[email protected]@librarianjasonPSN: LibrarianX
Puckett, J. (2010). Digital Rights Management as information access barrier. Progressive Librarian, (34-35), 11-24.
Available at http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/univ_lib_facpub/50/
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thank you
