When Does "Own" Not Mean "Own?"
Jenny Levine,
The Shifted Librarian,
Sept 05, 2003
Good rant about the meaning of the word "own" and the problems faced by libraries with respect to DRM. "After much debate, we came to the conclusion that if a library purchases titles from ED, it does indeed own them. However, if it stops subscribing to the service, if ED folds the way Gemstar did, or if PDFs are replaced by another format, the library will 'own' a file that is completely and utterly useless." While you're on the site, check out her defense of aggregators, which led me to this criticism of aggregators, which led me to the David Weinberger item listed immediately below.
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