L’Organisation mondiale de la Propriété intellectuelle publie une étude importante concernant les exceptions et limitations du droit d’auteur (PDF, fr, 20p).

Il s’agit d’une étude provenant d’un groupe de travail spécial sur les limitations et exceptions.

Notre collègue du blogue BiblioLabo invite les bibliothécaires et professionnels de l’information à participer à un petit sondage. Les biblio-blogueurs visés sont à l’origine ceux listés sur Bibliopedia.fr mais l’appel semble ouvert à tous.

Le Center for Social Media annonce la publication d’un guide à l’attention des professeurs afin de les informer quant aux pratiques en lien avec le «fair use» – l’exception générale du droit d’auteur aux États-Unis – dans le cadre de production de contenu libre.

Intitulé Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for OpenCourseWare, ce document PDF

is a code of best practices designed to help those preparing OpenCourseWare (OCW) to interpret and apply fair use under United States copyright law. The OCW movement, which is part of the larger Open Educational Resources (OER) movement, was pioneered in 2002, when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology launched its OpenCourseWare initiative, making course materials available in digital form on a free and open basis to all. In 2005, MIT helped to organize with the support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation a group of not-for-profit organizations interested in following the OpenCourseWare model and standardizing the delivery of OCW material. This group of institutions, known as the OCW Consortium (OCWC), has grown into a concern of more than 200 universities worldwide promoting universal access to knowledge on a nonprofit basis. The mission of OCWC is “to advance formal and informal learning through the worldwide sharing and use of free, open, high-quality educational materials organized as courses.”

Dans l’édition du 12 septembre du New York Times, John Schwartz nous offre un article sur l’appropriation des technologies du Web 2.0 et des avocats aux USA :

Stephen Gillers, an expert on legal ethics at New York University Law School, sees many more missteps in the future, as young people who grew up with Facebook and other social media enter a profession governed by centuries of legal tradition.

“Twenty-somethings have a much-reduced sense of personal privacy,” Professor Gillers said. Younger lawyers are, predictably, more comfortable with the media than their older colleagues, according to a recent survey for LexisNexis, the legal database company: 86 percent of lawyers ages 25 to 35 are members of social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace, as opposed to 66 percent of those over 46. For those just out of law school, “this stuff is like air to them,” said Michael Mintz, who manages an online community for lawyers, Martindale-Hubbell Connected.

Au sujet de cette étude en question, LexisNexis, dans un communiqué de presse du 9 septembre 2009, précise sur son site Internet :

New survey data reveals that more than 70 percent of lawyers are members of an online social network – up nearly 25 percent over the past year – with 30 percent growth reported among lawyers aged 46 and over. The second annual Networks for Counsel Survey of almost 1,500 lawyers was commissioned by LexisNexis® Martindale-Hubbell®, the industry leader in networking and law firm marketing. It shows that more than 50 percent of respondents think online networks have the potential to change the business and practice of law, while 65 percent expressed interest in joining an online professional network designed specifically for their profession.

L’étude, intitulée 2009 Networks for Counsel study, est disponible à partir du site de Leader Networks.

Le bureau international de Creative Commons annonce la publication d’une étude sur les perception des créateurs et des utilisateurs concernant les usages non-commerciaux du matériel creative commons.

Selon le blogue de Creative Commons

The majority of respondents (87% of creators, 85% of users) replied that the definition was “essentially the same as” (43% of creators, 42% of users) or “different from but still compatible with” (44% of creators, 43% of users) theirs. Only 7% of creators and 11% of users replied that the term was “different from and incompatible with” their definition; 6% or creators and 4% of users replied “don’t know/not sure.” 74% and 77% of creators and users respectively think others share their definition and only 13% of creators and 11% of users wanted to change their definition after completing the questionnaire.

On a scale of 1-100 where 1 is “definitely noncommercial” and 100 is “definitely commercial” creators and users (84.6 and 82.6, respectively) both rate uses in connection with online advertising generally as “commercial.” However, more specific use cases revealed that many interpretations are fact-specific. For example, creators and users gave the specific use case “not-for-profit organization uses work on its site, organization makes enough money from ads to cover hosting costs” ratings of 59.2 and 71.7, respectively.

On the same scale, creators and users (89.4 and 91.7, respectively) both rate uses in which money is made as being commercial, yet again those ratings are lower in use cases specifying cost recovery or use by not-for-profits. Finally, both groups rate “personal or private” use as noncommercial, though creators did so less strongly than users (24.3 and 16.0, respectively, on the same scale).

Ainsi, l’objectif est de définir les perception des créateurs de contenu, mais aussi les utilisateurs de contenu sous Creative Commons.

Voici quelques thèses repérées sur le sujet du droit d’auteur et des bibliothèques. Il y en a bien d’autres, il s’agit d’un recensement partiel et rapide…

From Fair Dealing To Fair Duty: The Necessary Margins Of Canadian Copyright Law
Meera Nair, Simon Fraser University, Spring 2009

Negotiating use, persistence, and archiving: A study of academic library and publisher perspectives on licensing digital resources
Farb, Sharon E.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2006. Section 0031, Part 0723 344 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States — California: University of California, Los Angeles; 2006. Publication Number: AAT 3226006.
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A blueprint for the public trust, and, The role of intellectual property as a new area of the public domain
Aguado, Harrison Kline. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 1998. Section 1033, Part 0617 116 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States — Ohio: The Union Institute; 1998. Publication Number: AAT 9907560.
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Cooperative exchange of digital documents among electronic libraries. The case of Latin America: Model and cost analysis
Delgado, Carlos R.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2001. Section 0028, Part 0399 157 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States — California: University of California, Berkeley; 2001. Publication Number: AAT 3044439.
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Perceptions of copyright awareness and compliance by principals, teachers, and school library media specialists in public elementary schools in the state of Missouri
Cox, Linda Jenkins. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 1998. Section 0958, Part 0399 83 pages; [M.S. dissertation].United States — Missouri: Central Missouri State University; 1998. Publication Number: AAT 1393098.
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Reproduction in the library and copyright. (Afrikaans text);
de Kock, Pieter Daniel. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 1988. Section 6004, Part 0398 [LL.D. dissertation].South Africa: University of Pretoria (South Africa); 1988. Publication Number: AAT 0564389.
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The impact of contemporary copying technologies on copyrighted works: Problems arising from photocopying in libraries and appropriate solutions thereto
Sukonthapan, Pisawat. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 1990. Section 0212, Part 0398 418 pages; [J.S.D. dissertation].United States — California: Stanford University; 1990. Publication Number: AAT 9108773.

Voici un article très intéressant sur la cyberjustice dans Lex Electronica,
Vol.10, n°3. Interopérabilité et normalisation des systèmes de cyberjustice : Orientations de GÉLINAS Fabien

En partant des travaux en cours tendant au développement de la cyberjustice ­ soit la greffe en ligne (e-filing) et les systèmes intégrés d’information de justice (integrated justice information systems), l’auteur nous propose une analyse quant à l’interopérabilité et à la normalisation des outils « visant à faciliter le traitement et la solution judiciaire et extrajudiciaire des différends et qui tiennent compte de la complexité des paramètres juridiques et des flux d’information concernés ». Pour répondre à cette complexité, l’auteur propose la mise en place d’une grille d’analyse des risques juridiques aussi bien pour la justice civile que pénale.

À noter que ce numéro de Lex Electronica est son édition spéciale Dixième Anniversaire, Volume 10, Numéro 3 (Hiver 2006).

Ne manquez pas Leg@l IT 4.0 du 26 au 27 avril 2010, l’appel de communication est ouvert jusqu’en novembre 2009.

Michelle Thorne a publié un résumé vraiment intéressant des conditions d’accès aux données gouvernementales à travers le globe (en anglais). Ce tableau provient des courriels envoyés par les responsables de Creative Commons à travers le globe.

Au moment où l’UNESCO publie un guide sur des standards sur les compétences en technologies de l’information et des communications pour les enseignants (ICT competency standards for teachers: implementation guidelines, version 1.0), le groupe ccLearn publie une étude sur l’utilisation des ressources éducatives libres.

Intitulé Otherwise Open: Managing Incompatible Content within Open Educational Resources, ce rapport traite des ressources éducatives libres (Open Educational Resources). Il se base sur un sondage et traite entre autre, de la question du droit d’auteur ainsi que des licences d’utilisation dudit contenu numérique.

L’OCDE annonce la publication d’un guide qui vise à assister les analyses économiques de la société de l’information:
Guide to Measuring the Information Society (PDF, en, 220 p)