I don't know anything about Overdrive, but doesn't key section seem
contradictory? The first sentence says Overdrive will assist in transferring
material the library has purchased and the 2nd sentence says they have to
obtain permission from the rights holders. I think the interesting thing
will be the contract between Overdrive and various rights holders. My guess
is that it did not include the rights to sell material for continuous use (
few of these contracts do on films at least) and if that is the case the
library would at best end up suing Overdrive claiming they misrepresented
the rights but the again if contract between rights holders to Overdrive did
not include rights for continues use and platform transfer then they would
be correct in claiming Overdrive never had the right to sell it and the
contract is invalid.
It should be interesting.
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Deg Farrelly deg.farre...@asu.edu wrote:
The Kansas State Librarian argues that its consortium owns, rather than
licenses, content from OverDrive, as they seek to move to a new platform
rather than renew with OverDrive.
Details are in the Library Journal Academic Newswire here:
http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/newslettersnewsletterbucketacademicnewswire/891052-440/kansas__state_librarian_argues.html.csp
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