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Depuis quelques temps, la Recording Industry Association of America et d’autres agences demandent aux universités aux USA de transmettre des mises en demeures à certains de leurs étudiants qui téléchargent des fichiers musicaux. Une mise en demeure est une des première mesure à prendre pour entamer un processus judiciaire contre quelqu’un. Deux universités ont décidé de changer la donne.

Selon le journal de l’institution, les administrateurs de la Duke University demandent maintenant que la RIAA et les autres agences de démontrer qu’il y a bel et bien eu un geste illégal avant de faire suivre la missive pré-juridique :

The University has stepped up its support for students with the new policy, scheduled to go into effect before the end of the semester. In the past, the University did not provide student information to the RIAA without a subpoena, but forwarded all pre-litigation notices to students without evaluating the validity of the infringement claims.

Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta said that under the new policy, the University will not forward a pre-litigation notice from the RIAA unless there is evidence that a third-party download was facilitated by the Duke student in question.

Par ailleurs, le site de la revue Wired nous informe des démarches de professeur Charles Nesson de la Harvard Law School. Il demande à la cour d’invalider les démarches civiles de la RIAA car il s’agit d’une démarche pénale :

Nesson argues that the Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act of 1999 is unconstitutional because it effectively lets a private group – the Recording Industry Association of America, or RIAA – carry out civil enforcement of a criminal law. He also says the music industry group abused the legal process by brandishing the prospects of lengthy and costly lawsuits in an effort to intimidate people into settling cases out of court.

Nesson, the founder of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, said in an interview that his goal is to « turn the courts away from allowing themselves to be used like a low-grade collection agency. »

(Associated Press, 17 nov 2008)

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Préservation numérique

Olivier Charbonneau 2008-11-14

Le Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) nous propose un rapport concernant les politiques de la préservation numérique. Le regroupement d’institutions académiques de la Grande Bretagne nous propose un document de 60 pages en anglais intitulé : Digital Preservation Policies Study (PDF, en, 60p).

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Les modèles de l’accès libre

Olivier Charbonneau 2008-11-10

L’Association of Research Libraries (ARL) annonce la publication d’un rapport sous la plume de Nancy L. Maron et K. Kirby Smith intitulé : Current Models of Digital Scholarly Communication (en, PDF, 49p, 3Mb).

In the spring of 2008, ARL engaged Ithaka’s Strategic Services Group to conduct an investigation into the range of online resources valued by scholars, paying special attention to those projects that are pushing beyond the boundaries of traditional formats and are considered innovative by the faculty who use them. The networked digital environment has enabled the creation of many new kinds of works, and many of these resources have become essential tools for scholars conducting research, building scholarly networks, and disseminating their ideas and work, but the decentralized distribution of these new-model works has made it difficult to fully appreciate their scope and number.

Ithaka’s findings are based on a collection of resources identified by a volunteer field team of over 300 librarians at 46 academic institutions in the US and Canada. Field librarians talked with faculty members on their campuses about the digital scholarly resources they find most useful and reported the works they identified. The authors evaluated each resource gathered by the field team and conducted interviews of project leaders of 11 representative resources. Ultimately, 206 unique digital resources spanning eight formats were identified that met the study’s criteria.

Également, les données de l’étude sont disponibles via une base de donnée dans le site de l’ARL.

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