IP address based access

[anarchivist]

Hiya, I'm a librarian in the UK and have responsibility for both archival materials and copyright at a Uni here, although my background is in the States.

There is an exception to copyright which allows libraries to digitise content and provide it as long as it's on dedicated computers, aka device-dependent access. However churlish this copyright 'exception' might seem, it can at least provide SOME access to our archival material and start the ball rolling on the digitising/metadata work that needs to go into making these materials accessible.

My suggestion comes out of an awareness of the different attitudes taken towards digitising cultural artifacts based on concerns about possible infringement.

Thanks
Lisa

Submitter: Lisa Redlinski

[jimtuttle]

We have licensed materials that impose similar restrictions. Ideally, we'd like to see a linked object that can be any of 1) single IP address, 2) multiple addresses, 3) IP range, and 4)multiple ranges. We'd also like to use this to provide access to restricted items from our Special Collections reading room.