Developments in the Marketplace for Cultural Materials, with Implications for Access and Preservation

In this seminar session, I will discuss some emerging and troublesome developments that are becoming clear as the marketplace for cultural materials becomes not only increasingly digital, but also fragments into huge numbers of separate distribution channels, and shifts from the (sort of permanent) licensing of digital objects to their performance through streaming. In addition, I'll summarize some developments from the recent Internet Archive Library Leaders meeting dealing with the ability to re-format physical materials into electronic form and their implications.