Friday, November 21, 2008

Muddiest Point 13

Open Source format is incredibly popular and gaining momentum as more and more people create digital tools to help the masses. Is the creation of a centralized Open Source Digital Library possible?-or will strict copyright laws and international boundaries forever prevent it from being created?

1 comment:

Susan Herrick-Gleason said...

Hi Alberta,

I think that it could definitely become a reality. Of course creators/publishers who use the laws to protect their works to the max will be represented. But more and more materials are being created under Creative Commons licenses and other types of open-source agreements, and for these works, international boundaries and copyright laws will not be much of a problem.