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This story has been updated. Original CopyCense coverage: March 16, 2006

“A new online music service called La La Media aims to offer full-length CDs for $1 by letting users trade discs, in a bid to avoid legal pitfalls that face online song trading.

“Backed with $9 million in funding by Bain Capital and Ignition Partners, La La works like an online music co-op by enabling members to trade physical CDs they own for physical CDs they want, Bill Nguyen, co-founder of La La, said ahead of the Tuesday announcement.

“With 1.8 million album titles available, members trade the CDs in prepaid envelopes, much like the way popular mail-order DVD service Netflix operates.”

Reuters. CD-Swap Network to Slip Through Copyright Loophole? News.com. March 7, 2006.

Related Stories & Documents:

• The Patry Copyright Blog. La La and Section 109. March 8, 2006.

Updates:

• Reuters. New CD Swap Site to Give Back To Artists. News.com. June 7, 2006.

CopyCense™: The law, business, and technology of digital content. A business venture of Seso Digital LLC.

“If you browsed through record stores in the 1960s and ’70s, it was easy to spot albums from Impulse Records. The label’s distinctive orange-and-black packaging stood out. So did the music.

“Although it’s been mostly forgotten today, Impulse! Records was one of the most influential labels in jazz. It featured the likes of Count Basie, Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane.

“Music journalist Ashley Kahn has written a new book about Impulse — The House That Trane Built. The label started as an edgy, experimental unit of entertainment giant ABC-Paramount in 1960 during a golden age for jazz.”

Renee Montagne. Impulse Records: ‘The House That Trane Built.’ National Public Radio. June 6, 2006.

CopyCense™: The law, business, and technology of digital content. A business venture of Seso Digital LLC.

This post provides supplementary material to a workshop led by K. Matthew Dames and Jill Hurst-Wahl.

The workshop, the “Digitization Essentials Workshop,” will thoroughly discuss the management of digitization programs. The workshop is being offered as part of the 2006 SLA Annual Conference in Baltimore, MD. The two-day workshop takes place on June 10-11, 2006.

K. Matthew Dames is editor of CopyCense, an online journal that reports on digital media. Jill Hurst-Wahl is the president of Hurst Associates, Ltd. and the editor of Digitization 101. Interested participants can register online or at the conference site.

If you are interested in starting a digitization program, or arranging for a strategy session with either Mr. Dames or Ms. Hurst-Wahl, please contact them at sesogroup@gmail.com.

Description

Digitization is much more than converting a physical or analog object into its digital equivalent: it is about efficiently repurposing crucial information resources to improve an organization’s retention and use of business intelligence. Yet most digitization projects are doomed from the start because the focus is on the conversion process instead of other, critical pre-scanning issues such as selection criteria, preservation of original documents, metadata creation, software and hardware concerns; integration into existing systems; and legal issues.

Participants in this pre-conference workshop will be introduced to some of the critical issues every organization must consider when they approach a digitization project, and will be engaged with on exercises and simulations that discuss and analyze real-world situations. In particular, these two, half-day morning sessions will provide participants with a firm conceptual understanding of the life cycle of a digitization project, which will allow them both to investigate their own projects more critically, and move from working on a single project to creating an ongoing digitization program. The lecturers also will provide an update on the status of the world’s most famous digitization project: the Google Print Library Project.

Slide Presentation

• K. Matthew Dames & Jill Hurst-Wahl. Digitization Essentials Workshop. (.pdf, 820 KB) Presented at SLA Annual Meeting & Conference. June 10-11, 2006.

Supplementary Materials: Websites

• Seso Digital LLC. CopyCense. (Ed. K. Matthew Dames) (See also: CopyCense Digitization Archive)
• Hurst Associates Ltd. Digitization 101. (Ed. Jill Hurst-Wahl)
• Cornell University Library. Moving Theory Into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial.
• Digitizationblog (Ed. Mark Jordan)
• Digitize Everything. (Ed. Michael Yunkin)
• DigitalKoans. (Ed. Charles W. Bailey Jr.)
• D-Lib Magazine (Corporation for National Research Initiatives)
• File Formats Blog. (Ed. Gary McGath)
• Peter B. Hirtle. Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States. Cornell Copyright Information Center. Jan. 1, 2006.
• OCLC. Digitization & Preservation Online Resource Center.
• Society of American Archivists. A Guide to Deeds of Gift. Undated.
• Tape Transcription Center. Digital Recording: Here to Stay. Undated.
• The Ten Thousand Year Blog. (Ed. David Mattison)
• University of Buffalo’s UBdigit. UBdigit Conditions of Use. No date.
• University of California at San Diego. diglet. (Ed. Jim Jacobs)

Supplementary Materials: Articles, Guides & Papers

• James Currall and Peter McKinney. Investing in Value: A Perspective on Digital Preservation. D-Lib. Apr. 2006.
• K. Matthew Dames. “Associations’ Silence on Google Book Search Is Not Golden.” Online. March/April 2006.
• K. Matthew Dames. Demystifying Fair Use. CopyCense. March 2, 2006.
• Mary Sue Coleman. Google, the Khmer Roge and the Public Good (Address to the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers). (.pdf, 180 KB) Feb. 6, 2006.
• K. Matthew Dames. Library Schools & the Copyright Knowledge Gap. Information Today. February 2006.
• K. Matthew Dames. Library Copying in the Digital Age. Copycense. Jan. 31, 2006.
• Paul Ganley. Google Book Search: Fair Use, Fair Dealing and the Case for Intermediary Copying. Social Science Research Network. Jan. 13, 2006.
• John Blau. IBM Expert Warns of Short Life Span for Burned CDs. InfoWorld. Jan. 10, 2006.
• Jonathan Band. The Google Library Project: The Copyright Debate. (.pdf) ALA Office for Intellectual Property Policy. January 2006.
• Robin Jeweler. The Google Book Search Project: Is Online Indexing a Fair Use Under Copyright Law? (.pdf, 37 KB) Congressional Research Service. Dec. 28, 2005.
• Siva Vaidhyanathan. A Risky Gamble With Google. Sivacracy.net. Nov. 28, 2005.
• CDP Digital Audio Working Group. Digital Audio Best Practices, version 2.0. (.pdf) November 2005.
• Jonathan Band. The Authors Guild v. The Google Print Library Project. LLRX.com. Oct. 15, 2005.
• K. Matthew Dames. Google Shouldn’t Punt on Litigation. CopyCense. Oct. 4, 2005.
• Jonathan Band. The Google Print Library Project: A Copyright Analysis. (.pdf, 174 KB) Policybandwidth.com. August 2005.
• Peter B. Hirtle. Digital Preservation and Copyright. Copyright & Fair Use/Stanford University Libraries. No date.
• Mary Minow. Library Digitization Projects: U.S. Copyrighted Works That Have Expired into the Public Domain. LibraryLaw.com. April 15, 2004.
• Melissa Smith Levine. Overview of Legal Issues for Digitization. Northeast Document Conservation Center. April 9, 2004.
• National Information Standards Organization. A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections, 2d. Ed. 2004.
• June M. Besek. Copyright Issues Relevant to the Creation of a Digital Archive: A Preliminary Assessment. Council on Library and Information Resources. June 2003.
• Western States Digital Standards Group. Western States Digital Imaging Best Practices Version 1.0. (.pdf) January 2003.
• Mary Minow. Library Digitization Projects and Copyright. LLRX.com. June 28, 2002.
• National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH). The NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials. October 2002.
• Stuart D. Lee. Digitization: Is It Worth It? Computers in Libraries. May 2001.
• Maxine K. Sitts, Editor. Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access. Northeast Document Conservation Center. 2000.
• Franziska Frey. File Formats for Digital Masters. Digital Library Federation. 2000.
• Abby Smith. Why Digitize? Council on Library and Information Resources. February 1999.
• Harvard University. Selection for Digitizing: A Decision Making Matrix. (.pdf) 1997.
• Tony Gill, et al. (Murtha Baca, Ed.) Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information, version 2.1. Getty Research Institute. Undated.

CopyCense™: The law, business, and technology of digital content. A business venture of Seso Digital LLC.

This post provides supplementary material to a workshop led by K. Matthew Dames and Jill Hurst-Wahl.

The workshop, the “Digitization Essentials Workshop,” will thoroughly discuss the management of digitization programs. The workshop is being offered as part of the 2006 SLA Annual Conference in Baltimore, MD. The two-day workshop takes place on June 10-11, 2006.

K. Matthew Dames is editor of CopyCense, an online journal that reports on digital media. Jill Hurst-Wahl is the president of Hurst Associates, Ltd. and the editor of Digitization 101. Interested participants can register online or at the conference site.

If you are interested in starting a digitization program, or arranging for a strategy session with either Mr. Dames or Ms. Hurst-Wahl, please contact them at sesogroup@gmail.com.

Description

Digitization is much more than converting a physical or analog object into its digital equivalent: it is about efficiently repurposing crucial information resources to improve an organization’s retention and use of business intelligence. Yet most digitization projects are doomed from the start because the focus is on the conversion process instead of other, critical pre-scanning issues such as selection criteria, preservation of original documents, metadata creation, software and hardware concerns; integration into existing systems; and legal issues.

Participants in this pre-conference workshop will be introduced to some of the critical issues every organization must consider when they approach a digitization project, and will be engaged with on exercises and simulations that discuss and analyze real-world situations. In particular, these two, half-day morning sessions will provide participants with a firm conceptual understanding of the life cycle of a digitization project, which will allow them both to investigate their own projects more critically, and move from working on a single project to creating an ongoing digitization program. The lecturers also will provide an update on the status of the world’s most famous digitization project: the Google Print Library Project.

Slide Presentation

• K. Matthew Dames & Jill Hurst-Wahl. Digitization Essentials Workshop. (.pdf, 820 KB) Presented at SLA Annual Meeting & Conference. June 10-11, 2006.

Supplementary Materials: Websites

• Seso Digital LLC. CopyCense. (Ed. K. Matthew Dames) (See also: CopyCense Digitization Archive)
• Hurst Associates Ltd. Digitization 101. (Ed. Jill Hurst-Wahl)
• Cornell University Library. Moving Theory Into Practice: Digital Imaging Tutorial.
• Digitizationblog (Ed. Mark Jordan)
• Digitize Everything. (Ed. Michael Yunkin)
• DigitalKoans. (Ed. Charles W. Bailey Jr.)
• D-Lib Magazine (Corporation for National Research Initiatives)
• File Formats Blog. (Ed. Gary McGath)
• Peter B. Hirtle. Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States. Cornell Copyright Information Center. Jan. 1, 2006.
• OCLC. Digitization & Preservation Online Resource Center.
• Society of American Archivists. A Guide to Deeds of Gift. Undated.
• Tape Transcription Center. Digital Recording: Here to Stay. Undated.
• The Ten Thousand Year Blog. (Ed. David Mattison)
• University of Buffalo’s UBdigit. UBdigit Conditions of Use. No date.
• University of California at San Diego. diglet. (Ed. Jim Jacobs)

Supplementary Materials: Articles, Guides & Papers

• James Currall and Peter McKinney. Investing in Value: A Perspective on Digital Preservation. D-Lib. Apr. 2006.
• K. Matthew Dames. “Associations’ Silence on Google Book Search Is Not Golden.” Online. March/April 2006.
• K. Matthew Dames. Demystifying Fair Use. CopyCense. March 2, 2006.
• Mary Sue Coleman. Google, the Khmer Roge and the Public Good (Address to the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers). (.pdf, 180 KB) Feb. 6, 2006.
• K. Matthew Dames. Library Schools & the Copyright Knowledge Gap. Information Today. February 2006.
• K. Matthew Dames. Library Copying in the Digital Age. Copycense. Jan. 31, 2006.
• Paul Ganley. Google Book Search: Fair Use, Fair Dealing and the Case for Intermediary Copying. Social Science Research Network. Jan. 13, 2006.
• John Blau. IBM Expert Warns of Short Life Span for Burned CDs. InfoWorld. Jan. 10, 2006.
• Jonathan Band. The Google Library Project: The Copyright Debate. (.pdf) ALA Office for Intellectual Property Policy. January 2006.
• Robin Jeweler. The Google Book Search Project: Is Online Indexing a Fair Use Under Copyright Law? (.pdf, 37 KB) Congressional Research Service. Dec. 28, 2005.
• Siva Vaidhyanathan. A Risky Gamble With Google. Sivacracy.net. Nov. 28, 2005.
• CDP Digital Audio Working Group. Digital Audio Best Practices, version 2.0. (.pdf) November 2005.
• Jonathan Band. The Authors Guild v. The Google Print Library Project. LLRX.com. Oct. 15, 2005.
• K. Matthew Dames. Google Shouldn’t Punt on Litigation. CopyCense. Oct. 4, 2005.
• Jonathan Band. The Google Print Library Project: A Copyright Analysis. (.pdf, 174 KB) Policybandwidth.com. August 2005.
• Peter B. Hirtle. Digital Preservation and Copyright. Copyright & Fair Use/Stanford University Libraries. No date.
• Mary Minow. Library Digitization Projects: U.S. Copyrighted Works That Have Expired into the Public Domain. LibraryLaw.com. April 15, 2004.
• Melissa Smith Levine. Overview of Legal Issues for Digitization. Northeast Document Conservation Center. April 9, 2004.
• National Information Standards Organization. A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections, 2d. Ed. 2004.
• June M. Besek. Copyright Issues Relevant to the Creation of a Digital Archive: A Preliminary Assessment. Council on Library and Information Resources. June 2003.
• Western States Digital Standards Group. Western States Digital Imaging Best Practices Version 1.0. (.pdf) January 2003.
• Mary Minow. Library Digitization Projects and Copyright. LLRX.com. June 28, 2002.
• National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH). The NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials. October 2002.
• Stuart D. Lee. Digitization: Is It Worth It? Computers in Libraries. May 2001.
• Maxine K. Sitts, Editor. Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access. Northeast Document Conservation Center. 2000.
• Franziska Frey. File Formats for Digital Masters. Digital Library Federation. 2000.
• Abby Smith. Why Digitize? Council on Library and Information Resources. February 1999.
• Harvard University. Selection for Digitizing: A Decision Making Matrix. (.pdf) 1997.
• Tony Gill, et al. (Murtha Baca, Ed.) Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information, version 2.1. Getty Research Institute. Undated.

CopyCense™: The law, business, and technology of digital content. A business venture of Seso Digital LLC.

The All Party Parliamentary Internet Group (APIG) has released its report into Digital Rights Management. The inquiry received over 90 written submissions from consumers, Think Tanks, libraries, print media publishers, the film and music industries and lawyers. An oral evidence session was organized at the House of Commons in February when a cross selection of the respondents were invited to give oral evidence to APIG officers.

Key points of the report include:

• A recommendation that the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) bring forward appropriate labelling regulations so that it will become crystal clear to consumers what they will and will not be able to do with digital content that they purchase.
• A recommendation that OFCOM publish guidance to make it clear that companies distributing Technical Protection Measures systems in the UK would, if they have features such as those in Sony-BMG’s MediaMax and XCP systems, run a significant risk of being prosecuted for criminal actions.
• A recommendation that the government do not legislate to make DRM systems mandatory.

All Party Internet Group. Digital Rights Management: Report of an Inquiry by the All Party Internet Group. (.pdf) June 2006.

Related Stories & Documents:

BBC News. What Do You Know About Digital Rights? June 5, 2006. (Citizen survey with responses. Survey Questions: What are your experiences with copyright of online material? Do you have trouble moving content from PCs to personal audio/video players? Should MPs be pressing for these changes?)

BBC News. MPs In Digital Downloads Warning. June 4, 2006.

CopyCense™: The law, business, and technology of digital content. A business venture of Seso Digital LLC.

“Is that rock you’ve been flaunting really a diamond?

“Ever since the DeBeers Group managed to convince a significant part of the English-speaking world that “A Diamond is Forever” — and that a diamond solitaire ring all but guarantees a successful proposal of marriage — would-be grooms have been searching for ways to get more bling for their buck. With the arrival of gem-quality synthetic diamonds, they may have found it.

“Tiny diamond crystals have been produced for industrial purposes for decades, but the past few years have seen companies like Gemesis and Apollo Diamond develop multiple methods for growing large, near-flawless diamonds. These “cultured” diamonds are physically and chemically ‘real’ diamonds, not cubic zirconia or some other substance, and are for most jewelers indistinguishable from mined diamonds. Except, of course, for the price.”

Counterfeit Chic. A Fiancée’s Best Friend? June 1, 2006.

CopyCense™: The law, business, and technology of digital content. A business venture of Seso Digital LLC.