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Paul Glassman Director of University Libraries A National Need A recent institute on open educational resources convened by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition observed that academic libraries have a growing opportunity to offer solutions to the exorbitant costs of college ...

Rabbi Daniel Feldman Rosh ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and an instructor in the Sy Syms School of Business Daniel Feldman Values abound and intersect, combine and conflict, when considering the question of the protection of intellectual property in Jewish law. As is the…

Marlene Schiffman Catalog Librarian, Metadata Services and Processing Marlene Schiffman, Catalog Librarian, Metadata Services and Processing An orphan work is one for which the owner of a copyrighted work cannot be identified and located by those who wish to make use of the work—typically…

Deena Schwimmer Archivist Deena Schwimmer, Archivist, ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ Libraries The doctrine of Fair Use, [1] which provides the framework for using copyrighted material without the copyright holder’s permission, has been, at the same time and for the same reason, one of the most and least ...

Dr. Joshua Waxman Assistant Professor at Stern College for Women In my scholarly work in developing and applying algorithms to Jewish texts, I sometimes come across issues of copyright. In one recent example, my research group was trying [1] to train a machine learning model to recognize instances…

S. Abraham Ravid Sy Syms Professor of Finance Movies are the most expensive works of art, with budgets that can reach hundreds of millions of dollars. Ownership of movie properties is fairly well defined, but the new digital era has completely upended the old models of valuing film properties. This…

Rina Krautwirth Research and Instruction Librarian, Hedi Steinberg Library Rina Krautwirth, Reference and Instruction Librarian It is 2 a.m., the night before your research paper is due, which will determine a major portion of your grade for the course. As you do your best to stay awake to finish…

Wendy Kosakoff Public Services and Outreach Librarian, Pollack Library Wendy Kosakoff, Librarian, Pollack Library I recently read an enlightening series of articles in a major news magazine. In one of the articles, however, a broad historical assertion struck me as questionable. I did some research…

Stephanie L. Gross Scholarly Communication Librarian, Library Systems and Digital Services Stephanie Gross, Librarian, Electronic Reserves Open access (OA) is a publishing and distribution model that makes scholarly research literature—much of which is funded by taxpayers around the world—freely ...

Rabbi Shalom Carmy Assistant Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Bible Rabbi Shalom Carmy Let’s not talk about legal ownership, copyright law or rabbinic injunctions aimed at preventing plagiarism or republication without permission. What about intellectual fairness and public benefit, regardless of…