"Digital preservation" sounds simple enough; just slap that data onto increasingly cheap and spacious hard drives, keep some offsite backups, and you're good to go, right? Not so fast, says the ...

Awhile back Fox News Chicago’s Anna Davlantes got excoriated for suggesting that libraries might be a waste of money in a digital age. It was a dopey report, but it did sort of inadvertently raise a ...

This week, ebook lovers got yet another reminder of why DRM (Digital Rights Management) is terrible for ebooks. While attending a library conference in Singapore, Jim O’Donnell lost access to the ...

OverDrive is putting another nail in the coffin of DRM with the announcement that it’ll stop offering audiobooks in the WMA format. Soon OverDrive will only sell audiobooks in DRM-free MP3. The ...

Derek Wyatt MP has called on the British Library to lead the debate on digital rights management (DRM), and present the results to government. The chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Internet ...

This story was written by David Kaplan. Offering something for free doesn't guarantee people will make the most of it. The latest example: eBooks distributor OverDrive says providing DRM-protected ...

Copyright law (and therefore DRM, the software companies can use to lock down their products) is controlled by the Library of Congress. Every three years, the ...

For the fifth time since the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was passed in 1998, the Library of Congress is preparing to grant limited rights to crack DRM ...

The British Library has called for a "serious updating" of current copyright law to "unambiguously" include digital content, and take technological advances into account. In a manifesto launched on ...

One charge of the Digital Content and Libraries Working Group is to help the library community better understand and adapt to the growth of digital content. To assist with this, the internal ...

To modify the saying . . . Where does a 300lb gorilla apply DRM (digital rights management)? Wherever he wants. And in the case of many publishers that is everywhere. But what exactly is this ...