The Adventures of Library Girl Building a Culture of Collaboration | to support student and educator success! The Daring Librarian Library Advocate. Home - Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog The Styling Librarian | In my opinion, books are the best accessory. Scholarly Communications @ Duke It is frequently interesting, and sometimes appalling, to see how a court that does not usually deal with copyright issues reacts when confronted with one. Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is certainly not a complete novice regarding copyright, but the issue she confronted in Drauglis V. Kappa Map Group must certainly have been a new one for her. It is a case involving the scope and interpretation of a Creative Commons license, and Judge Jackson deals quite well with it, in my opinion, in a decision issued last week. But she is drawing lines in this case that I am quite sure will be discussed and readjusted over the next few years. The facts in the case pose a situation that anyone familiar with CC licensing could probably have seen coming. The lesson from this part of the story is clear; rights holders need to think carefully about the terms of the licenses they imply.
BURIED IN BOOKS Kid Tested, Librarian Approved I was reading through my Google Reader this morning, and came across the news that Maurice Sendak had died. I made one of those little noises, that "Oh!" of combined horror, sadness, and disbelief. Here's his obit at the New York Times. Now, the NYT doesn't exactly have a shining track record as far as children's and YA book coverage goes, but I have to give them props for this lovely obit, which acknowledges Sendak as a picture-book creator that both defined and stood outside the genre. Even now, Sendak's books have teeth that you don't often find in the picture-book shelves. He wrote a small-form picture book called Alligators All Around. We'll miss you.
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