Comments on: Twitter is evil. Elsevier is evil. Wikipedia is evil.

By: Tecnologías, herramientas y bibliotecarios « Alusión…Llamada Virtual

Sat, 16 May 2009 16:37:17 +0000

[...] No es la herramienta , es conocer los cambios , experimentar y saber que la gente…¡LA GENTE!…está haciendo otras cosas. ¡Caray! "Librarians need to understand how information on Twitter, in academic journals and Wikipedia is created, distributed, re-used, re-purposed and the criteria for sensible evaluation." Kathryn Greenhill. Australia: Librarians Matter [...]

By: Wikipedia, and the librarians who hate and fear it - Spurious Tuples

Wikipedia, and the librarians who hate and fear it - Spurious Tuples — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:02:18 +0000

[...] should also link to Kathryn Greenhill’s brilliant post on a similar topic here. She says much the same thing, but better, shorter, and with visual aids. [...]

By: Twitter News: It is not evil « ScienceRoll

Twitter News: It is not evil « ScienceRoll — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:30:43 +0000

[...] Twitter is evil. Elsevier is evil. Wikipedia is evil. (Librarians Matter) 1. Twitter, Elsevier and Wikipedia should be legally stopped before they can do any more damage? [...]

By: Frank Norman

Frank Norman — Mon, 11 May 2009 11:05:26 +0000

I agree with Michelle – the “Twitter is evil” meme is just part of the broader “Internet is evil” meme that we’ve lived with ever since Internet started going mainstream in the 1990s. I’m sure Gutenberg had to put up with “Printing is evil” nonsense too wayback when he started his printing press.

By: Kathryn Greenhill

Kathryn Greenhill — Mon, 11 May 2009 02:46:59 +0000

I did have much more about the copyright restrictions in the first draft of my post, but it seemed to distract too much so I took it out.

I didn’t feel like wading through the relative copyright provisions of Ireland, the EU, the US and Australia to work out just how stupid and illegal the provisions were on the publications’ home pages… so spat the dummy and just put in a short, grumpy sentence.

The first article has a wonderfully restrictive caveat about “web posting“:
” Reprint & Reuse Permissions
Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) is FP’s exclusive agent for granting reprint and reuse permissions. Examples include: photocopying, Web posting, and book reprints. You can submit your permission request online at http://www.copyright.com or by phone at (978) 750-8400. If you need assistance with this process, contact CCC at info@copyright.com or FP at FP@ForeignPolicy.com. ”

The Irish Times’ copyright provision is similarly odd:
“Links are not permitted other than to the Home Page, except with prior written consent. In relation to any other form of linking or use of material, users must receive prior written permission.”

By: Peter Murray

Peter Murray — Mon, 11 May 2009 02:40:31 +0000

Twitter, Elsevier and Wikipedia are evil?!? It must be true; I read it on the internet.

By: Jason Griffey

Jason Griffey — Mon, 11 May 2009 02:15:50 +0000

Sorry, should have done the requisite google before commenting. Fair Dealing certainly looks like it covers you:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing#Fair_dealing_in_Australia

If librarians won’t stand up for Fair use of copyrighted material, who will?

By: Jason Griffey

Jason Griffey — Mon, 11 May 2009 02:13:22 +0000

Sorry, but I have to ask: does Australia not have a Fair Use policy when it comes to commenting on copyrighted material? Seriously?

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germany austria Blog » Landesrat — Sun, 10 May 2009 22:58:11 +0000

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By: Steve Lawson

Steve Lawson — Sun, 10 May 2009 03:52:05 +0000

I dunno about the rest of that junk, but copyright is certainly evil.

I think the main conclusion I draw is that evil != useless.