[WEB4LIB] Waco, Ruby Ridge...hoo boy!

[Blake Carver]

Judith Platt has responded on her radical librarian remarks.

"The last thing that I intended was to anger or alienate the library
community. I value them as friends, colleagues and allies in the fight for
free expression and literacy. If publishers and librarians don't always see
eye-to-eye on copyright issues, we've been able to seek workable compromises
in the past, and we have every expectation of doing so in the digital
environment.
I was quoted completely out of context ZDNet news article.

more here:

http://www.lisnews.com/article.php3?sid=20010712121412


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Blake Carver
LISNews.com
http://www.lisnews.com
Librarian and Information Science News


----- Original Message -----
From: "Shirl Kennedy" <sdk at tampabay.rr.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 8:22 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Waco, Ruby Ridge...hoo boy!


> ZDNet News: Librarians targeted in latest copyright battles
>
> In this digital age, the custodians of published works are at the center
of
> a global copyright controversy that casts them as villains simply for
doing
> their job: letting people borrow books for free.
>
> Their leading opponents are the very people who supply the books that fill
> their shelves--the publishers. And now that the high-stakes battle over
> copyrights has moved beyond music and movies to books, librarians are
> finding themselves the subject of rhetoric usually reserved for terrorists
> or revolutionaries.
>
> "They've got their radical factions, like the Ruby Ridge or Waco types,"
who
> want to share all content for free, said Judith Platt, a spokeswoman for
the
> Association of American Publishers.
>
> <-----SNIP----->
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2784614,00.html
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>
>
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> Shirl Kennedy
> Web Guide Topic Manager
> eCompany Now
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> eCompany Now --> Business 2.0
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