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Tuesday, January 29, 2019
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Why It's So Hard to Get Mickey Mouse Into the Public Domain
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by George H. Pike
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The Walt Disney Co. has been heavily advertising the 90th birthday of Mickey Mouse since mid-2018. Well, happy birthday, Mickey! Mickey Mouse has a fair amount of significance in copyright law in that he sometimes gets the blame for the continuing extension of the terms of a copyright.
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The State of Ebooks in Academic Libraries
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by Brandi Scardilli
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In a Campus Technology article from Dec. 12, 2018, Dian Schaffhauser reports that according to statistics from the U.S. Department of Education, "library collections in higher education now contain more digital items than physical." Let's take a look at what academic library staffers have to say about the state of ebooks in their libraries today.
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Rich Metadata for Enterprise Content (2:44)
Align Consulting founder Katrina B. Pugh and Valora Technologies CEO Sandy Serkes explain how organizations can identify the most useful tags for their content in this clip from their presentation at Enterprise Search & Discovery 2019.

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Streaming Media Blog – www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/Blog – the go-to destination for opinion, analysis, and insights into the entire online video ecosystem, from glass to glass.
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