Rethinking Copyrights for the Library through Creative Commons Licensing

Kapitzke, Cushla

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Title

Rethinking Copyrights for the Library through Creative Commons Licensing

Author(s)

Kapitzke, Cushla

Issue Date

2009

Keyword(s)

• Library and information science
• School libraries
• School libraries -- United States
• Library copyright policies -- United States
• Creative Commons (Organization)

Abstract

Two recent and related social developments of note for libraries are an upsurge in cultural participation enabled by Web 2.0 media and calls in government policy for enhanced innovation through education. Ironically, these have occurred at the same time that increasingly stringent copyright laws have restricted access to cultural content. Concepts of governmentality are used here to examine these tensions and contradictions. In particular, Foucault’s critique of the author figure and freedom as part of the will to govern within liberal democratic societies is used to argue for better quality copyright education programs in school libraries and library information science education programs. For purposes of teaching and research, copyrights are defined as agglomerations of legal, economic, and educational discourses that enable and constrain what can and cannot be done with text in homes, schools, and library media centers. This article presents some possibilities for renewal of school libraries around copyright education and Creative Commons licensing.

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

ISSN

0024-2594

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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