The new LibraryLaw Blog is amazing…full of great info, and cutting edge library/law connections. I hope that more of a discussion community forms as the blog ages. I know I’ll be there!
Author: griffey
Jason Griffey is the Executive Director of the Open Science Hardware Foundation. Prior to joining OSHF, he was the Director of Strategic Initiatives at NISO, where he worked to identify new areas of the information ecosystem where standards expertise was useful and needed. Prior to joining NISO in 2019, Jason ran his own technology consulting company for libraries, has been both an Affiliate at metaLAB and a Fellow and Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and was an academic librarian in roles ranging from reference and instruction to Head of Library IT and a tenured professor at the University of TN at Chattanooga.
Jason has written extensively on technology and libraries, including multiple books and a series of full-periodical issues on technology topics, most recently a chapter in Library 2035 - Imagining the Next Generation of Libraries by Rowman & Littlefield. His latest full-length work Standards - Essential Knowledge, co-authored with Jeffery Pomerantz, was published by MIT Press in March 2025.
He has spoken internationally on topics such as artificial intelligence & machine learning, the future of technology and libraries, decentralization and the Blockchain, privacy, copyright, and intellectual property. A full list of his publications and presentations can be found on his CV.
He is one of eight winners of the Knight Foundation News Challenge for Libraries for the Measure the Future project (http://measurethefuture.net), an open hardware project designed to provide actionable use metrics for library spaces. He is also the creator and director of The LibraryBox Project (http://librarybox.us), an open source portable digital file distribution system.
Story originally from Lessig Blog and the BBC.
At the Cannes Film Festival, a film named Tarnation is wowing the critics and crowds…impressing Gus Van Sant and John Cameron Mitchell to sign on as producers and attempt to get the film a distributor. It’s the story told via a series of filmed narratives of the director and subject since he was 11, as he deals with his mother’s mental illness.
The copyright problem here is this: the director/star/subject (Jonathan Caouette) estimates that the film cost a total of $218 to make. That’s the cost of the videotapes, and the one prop he purchased solely for the film (a pair of angels wings).
Cost to clear the rights to the images/music that he used in editting the film together?
$400,000
This time, from one of the funniest movies evar, Office Space. The result scares me a little. 🙂
Lawrence
Just watching one of my favorite movies of all time, Willy Wonka and Chocolate Factory. I’ve looked over the ‘net for a list of the literary references that Wonka uses during the film, and not found any complete lists. I’m a bit curious as to whether they only used public domain quotes, or whether they had to jump through the hoops that a modern producer would need to in order to clear the copyright on so many quotes. Many of them (Shakespeare is used a few times) are clearly public domain, but others are not so clear (O’Shaugnessy and others). Anyone know of such a resource? I’ll put on my reference librarian hat and find one if no one knows of one.
Just another great example where borrowing works from others made the movie more interesting, and raised it above the norm. Hopefully the remake won’t have to drop the sort of playful quotations for fear of lawsuits.
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It puts the lotion in the basket…
File in the “my goodness the Internet is a large den of insanity” file: the strangest LiveJournal ever…this reads like Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs meets Beavis. Just…wow.
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Post Graduation
I find all I want to do is sleep. 🙂 I should be doing about a billion things (not the least of which is finishing the article from the Master’s Paper), but somehow all enthusiasm is gone for the moment.
I guess I should just revel in the week, and sleep. Betsy keeps telling me I deserve it, so it must be true. Right?
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Graduation pictures up!
For anyone interested, my pictures of the UNC SILS graduation are up now.
We’ll return to our regularly scheduled updates and musings shortly.
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Congratulations!
To all the 2004 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science Master’s Degree recipients!
I look forward to seeing tons of you over the summer, and many more over the course of the next bunch o’ years at conferences and such.
Thanks to everyone who helped me get this far (you all know who you are).
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Sorry to be missing…
…but I’ve been overwhelmed by visitors and family and graduation festivities! Graduation is tomorrow here at UNC-Chapel Hill, so the town has been invaded by families of all shapes and sizes.
Ah…who am I kidding. I’m just late posting because I’ve been playing with my new 40-gig iPod for the last 8 hours. 🙂 Yay for graduation presents! And thanks to everyone out there who chipped in for it..Betsy went above and beyond the call to rake in the dough for it. You are all very, very special.
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Hey all you friends out there!
It occurs to me that some of you may have borrowed media of a sort from me over the last couple of years (books, movies, etc…). Before everyone scatters to the four winds, I’d love to get that stuff back. 🙂 You probably know who you are….