Finding the Public Domain: Copyright Review Management System Toolkit
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Acknowledgments
This toolkit represents the work of the CRMS team at the University of Michigan, with funding and support from the Institute for Museum and Library Services in the form of three National Leadership Grants (LG-05-08-0141-08, LG-05-11-0150-11, and LG-05-14-0042-14). We are cognizant of the unique place of the National Leadership Grants and the IMLS’s significant role in stewarding these precious resources for the benefit of the nation and citizenry. The authors would like to express our deep appreciation for the IMLS as well as the University of Michigan Library for the sheer volume of its contribution of staffing, expertise, and hours. We would like to acknowledge the University of Michigan Library and the support of James Hilton, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, and Donna Hayward, Associate University Librarian for Budget and Planning.
This project benefited from the ingenuity of many people who generously shared time and expertise in an overarching spirit of cooperation. It becomes a challenge to properly recognize all contributors for a project that involved many people over a span of nearly eight years. Over the years, several of the key personnel for CRMS moved from the University of Michigan to new opportunities. Their impact requires particular appreciation. John Wilkin conceived of CRMS and was the principal investigator for the first grant while at the University of Michigan Library as the Associate University Librarian for Library and Information Technology and as the founding Executive Director of HathiTrust. John is now the Dean of Libraries and University Librarian at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. CRMS is John’s brainchild. Paul Courant, Harold T. Shapiro Professor of Public Policy and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the Department of Economics and School of Information at the University of Michigan, provided key leadership as the Dean of Libraries at the University of Michigan from 2007 to 2013. Anne Karle-Zenith, now Digital Services Manager at METRO New York (the Metropolitan New York Library Council), had significant impact on shaping the structure, workflow, and relationships foundational to CRMS. Bobby Glushko, now head of Scholarly Communications and Copyright at University of Toronto Libraries, also played a vital role in the development of CRMS-World.
The Stanford Copyright Renewal Database, under the initiative of Mimi Calter, Associate University Librarian and Chief of Staff at Stanford University Libraries, closed a critical information gap and thus opened a window of possibility for tackling copyright indeterminacy. Kris Kasianovitz, also of Stanford University Libraries, and Bernadette Bartlett, Library of Michigan, helped shape our work on state government documents. An additional grant from the University of Michigan Library Creative Research fund supports an inquiry into our undetermined category of volumes, currently in process.
We would like to express our appreciation for the ongoing encouragement of a wide range of colleagues who have informally helped us think about copyright issues in the context of CRMS, including Nancy Kopans, Joyce Ray, John Mark Ockerbloom, Elizabeth Townsend Gard, Michael Seadle, Noam Solon, Robert Wolven, and Nancy Weiss. This toolkit benefitted from the careful reading and feedback of Ana Enriquez, Kyle Courtney, Greg Cram, Nazareth Pantaloni III, Laura Quilter, Erin Clements Rushing, Roger Schonfeld, and Hope O’Keeffe. We also want to express our deep appreciation to Allison Peters and Jason Colman from Michigan Publishing for their responsive and professional editorial guidance.
This endeavor would not have been possible without the collective commitment, support, and guidance of both the CRMS Advisory Working Group and the nineteen partner institutions that performed the daily work of CRMS. The commitment of CRMS partners took the form of precious staff time and the tireless dedication of individual reviewers. Projects like CRMS do not happen without enormous commitment—thousands of hours of work and dedicated staff time. The depth and breadth of the CRMS Advisory Working Group’s expertise was crucial for checking our assumptions and shaping our processes; we were overwhelmed by the generosity and dedication of this exceptional group.
These acknowledgements can only partly speak to the foundational importance of shared, collaborative stewardship of the human record embodied in the work we have done through CRMS. In order to realize the potential of our shared collections, we must harness the energies of committed professionals like the ones who have made this endeavor successful.
University of Michigan Library
Note that asterisks (*) in this section and beyond have been included to distinguish the names of key departments and personnel.
U-M Library Copyright Office*
- Richard C. Adler, CRMS Project Manager
- Justin Bonfiglio, Copyright Specialist
- Kristina Eden, Copyright Outreach Librarian
- Melissa Levine, Lead Copyright Officer, Principal Investigator
U-M Digital Library Production Service—Library Information Technology
- Kat Hagedorn, Project Manager for Digital Projects
- John Weise, Manager, Digital Library Production Service*
- Perry Willett, Head, Digital Library Production Service, 2004–8
U-M Library Information Technology
- Brian “Moses” Hall, Applications Programmer / Analyst, Intermediate*
- Jose Blanco, Applications Programmer / Analyst, Senior
- Tom Burton-West, Applications Programmer / Analyst, Intermediate
- Aaron Elkiss, Systems Programmer / Analyst Senior
- Roger Espinosa, Applications Programmer / Analyst, Senior
- Phil Farber, Applications Programmer / Analyst, Senior
- Tim Prettyman, Applications Programmer / Analyst, Senior
- Jonathan Rothman, Head, Library Systems Office
- Josh Santelli, Applications Programmer / Analyst, Intermediate
- Cory Snavely, LIT Core Services Manager
U-M Technical Services
- Judith Ahronheim, Head, Electronic Resource Access Unit, Electronic Resources and Database Management Section*
- Matt Carruthers, Metadata Projects Librarian
- David Fulmer, Information Resources Assistant, Senior, 2008–11
- Senovia Guevara, Information Resources Assistant, Intermediate, 2009–10
- Martin Knott, Head, Electronic Resources and Database Management Section
- Dennis McWhinnie, Information Resources Assistant, Senior, Electronic Access Unit
- Greg Nichols, Electronic Resources Access Unit, Electronic Resources and Database Management Section*
- Emily Peiffer, Electronic Access Unit
- Eric Saran, Information Resources Assistant, Senior, 2008
- Heather Shoecraft, Information Resources, Senior
- Chris Wilcox, Information Resources Assistant, Senior, 2007–12
HathiTrust (Based at U-M)
- Mike Furlough, Executive Director*
- Melissa Stewart, Senior Administrative Assistant
- Jeremy York, Assistant Director
- Angelina Zaytsev, Project Librarian
CRMS Advisory Working Group
- Jack Bernard, Associate General Counsel, University of Michigan
- Kenneth D. Crews, Faculty Member, Columbia Law School; Of Counsel, Gipson Hoffman and Pancione
- Sharon E. Farb, Associate University Librarian for Collections and Scholarly Communication, University of California, Los Angeles
- Bobby Glushko, Head, Scholarly Communications and Copyright, University of Toronto Libraries
- Georgia K. Harper, Scholarly Communications Advisor, University of Texas Libraries, University of Texas at Austin
- Peter Hirtle, Affiliate Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University
- Jessica Litman, John F. Nickoll Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School, and Professor of Information, University of Michigan School of Information
- Kevin Smith, Director, Copyright and Scholarly Communication, Duke University Libraries
Partners: Reviewers and Liaisons
Baylor University Libraries
Brenda Anderson, Ramona McKeown, Billie Peterson-Lugo, Denyse Rodgers, Jeff Steely, Darlene Youts
Dartmouth College Library
Karla Bushway, Goodie Corriveau, Lori Heath, Judy Maynes, Sarah McBride, Jan Peltzer
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library
Sarah Hoover, Betsy Kruger, Elizabeth Lippoldt, Hiromi Morikawa, Joshua Shelly, Angela Waarala
Indiana University Libraries
Janet M. Black, Thomas Bullard, Lisa Cameron, Erin Green, Elizabeth Hanson, Kathryn Marlett, Sarah McAfoose, Jo McClamroch, Sherri Michaels, Nazareth Pantaloni III
University of Maryland Libraries
Paul Bushmiller, Leigh Ann DePope, Donna King, Yeo-Hee Koh, Audrey Lengel, Terry Owen, Loretta Tatum
University of Minnesota Library
Lynne Beck, Laureen Boutang, Sandra Cressman, Virginia Dudley, Steve Koehler, Dennis Lien, David Linton, Mary Mortenson, Rory Segety, Edward Swanson, Carla Urban, Mark Wilhelmi, Sue Zuriff
Northwestern University Library
Katie Brown, Ann Duncan-Gibbs, Liz Hamilton, Shelley Morrison, Dru Parrish, Claire Stewart, Jennifer Young, Dan Zellner
