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["Kate Ball" <kdball@uoregon.edu>]

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These are excellent audio files
Speakers address rise in false claims of copyright by archives, libraries,
vendors for public domain works that they have digitized.

The Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) copyright symposium (Feb.
2007)
http://www.metro.org/content/view/149/338/

Public Domain: To (c) Or Not To (c)?
Panelists will tackle the complicated issue of libraries, archives, and
museums that assert copyright over digital reproductions of public  domain
materials.

Susan Chun, General Manager for Collections Information Planning,
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Kenneth Hamma, Executive Director, Digital Policy & Initiatives, J.  Paul
Getty Trust
Jason Mazzone, Assistant Professor, Brooklyn Law School
James Shulman, Executive Director, ARTstor
Liz Bishoff (moderator), Assistant to the Dean, University of Colorado  at
Boulder

(Interesting factoid: a false copyright claim is illegal.)