Comments on: lockss, clockss, portico http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:10:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Natalia Cecire http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence/four-preservation/lockss-clockss-portico/#comment-372 Natalia Cecire Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:51:51 +0000 http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence/?page_id=167#comment-372 I know this is nitpicking, but I find the Frost reference really jarring, because Frost is so clearly on the side of the "something" that "doesn't love a wall": <blockquote> We wear our fingers rough with handling them. Oh, just another kind of out-door game, One on a side. It comes to little more: There where it is we do not need the wall: He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'. </blockquote> I'm kind of thinking a wall isn't the greatest metaphor for an archive in any case. Here concludes the nitpicking. I know this is nitpicking, but I find the Frost reference really jarring, because Frost is so clearly on the side of the “something” that “doesn’t love a wall”:

<blockquote>
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors’.
</blockquote>

I’m kind of thinking a wall isn’t the greatest metaphor for an archive in any case.

Here concludes the nitpicking.

]]> By: kkraus http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence/four-preservation/lockss-clockss-portico/#comment-67 kkraus Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:08:40 +0000 http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/mcpress/plannedobsolescence/?page_id=167#comment-67 Lynch was asking some prescient questions back in 2001, no?  The question about the right to loan or give away an e-book is particularly topical in the way it gets at the current tension between copyright law and contract law.  Do EULAs essentially nullify the first-sale doctrine, for example, which provides the legal basis for the right to give a used book to a friend, donate it to a library, or sell it to a second-hand bookstore.  Similarly, can EULAs and Terms of Service agreements contract away fair use rights? Lynch was asking some prescient questions back in 2001, no?  The question about the right to loan or give away an e-book is particularly topical in the way it gets at the current tension between copyright law and contract law.  Do EULAs essentially nullify the first-sale doctrine, for example, which provides the legal basis for the right to give a used book to a friend, donate it to a library, or sell it to a second-hand bookstore.  Similarly, can EULAs and Terms of Service agreements contract away fair use rights?

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