{"id":3270,"date":"2011-07-28T07:01:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T23:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/?p=3270"},"modified":"2011-07-28T07:01:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T23:01:34","slug":"librarians-against-drm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/28\/librarians-against-drm\/","title":{"rendered":"Librarians against DRM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to my friend David<\/a> from Canada, these arrived in the post on Monday:<\/p>\n

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DRM is Digital Rights Managment – the technical “wrapping up” of electronic content in its formatting so that only some devices or users can access it. It is a way to apply to easy-to-copy-and-distribute digital objects “ownership” models that suit hard-to-copy-and-distribute physical objects.<\/p>\n

My major problem with DRM is that it locks up cultural growth and creativity in a way that is very hard to technically archive or preserve. It stops sharing – not just sharing via piracy, but the type of sharing that communities have for years entrusted their libraries to facilitate.<\/p>\n

This cartoon from Randall Monroe’s xkcd, Steal this Comic<\/a>,\u00a0 explains the problem very well:<\/p>\n

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The image on the “Librarians against DRM” buttons was created by artist Nina Paley<\/a> for Readersbillofrights.org<\/a>. The site has been set up to raise awareness of the issues around ebooks when considering the right to read – and to invite critical examination and discussion of this. There is a bibliography of further reading<\/a> and a readers’ bill of rights for digital books<\/a> section of the website. It is also interesting to check out the site to see that the ways they are communicating – no Facebook page,for example – match their commitment to the free and unrestricted flow of information.<\/p>\n

Nina Paley – an advocate for author-led distribution models – is interesting in her own right.\u00a0 To be the subject of an entire other blog post, I think.<\/p>\n

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