Slides and document on #ebookSOS challenges for law libraries available here - drive.google.com/drive/folder...

For those who may have missed it, the recording for the @knowledgerights21.org webinar on the new iSDL model and the report is now up on YouTube

Key differences include a provision for compensating/remuneration for authors as well as stronger data privacy provisions.

It uses iSDL as a term instead of CDL mainly to distinguish between the different legal and jurisdictional contexts in which each operates (iSDL = Europe, CDL = US) rather than any difference in function or approach.

That’s the problem we have with digital ‘ownership’ (or the complete lack thereof) - you don’t own diddly squat, and so they can control how, what, where, when, on what device, even if you get to keep accessing it. Extending that control to physical items? Now THAT’s unethical!

Will it solve the problem immediately or even long-term? No. Much more is needed. But it’s a signal to publishers that they can’t keep exploiting libraries - and that allowing libraries to BE libraries (and not publisher cash cows!) is an issue of importance to legislators and society.

It may seem like an odd, somewhat oblique approach, but it’s a way to try to bring publishers to the table without legislation that would almost certainly be challenged, like previous attempts to approach it from a copyright or price regulation have.

Now there’s an idea! Pocket glitter cannons…