<b>Peter B. Hirtle, Emily Hudson, and Andrew T. Kenyon.</b> <i>Copyright & Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives, & Museums</i>. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Library, 2009. 259p. $39.95 (ISBN 9780935995107). LC2010-459022.

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discussed in some detail in Chapter 2. This manual serves as a good example of some of the principles discussed in this chapter." In short, this work is based on an Australian publication titled Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitisation by Emily Hudson and Andrew T. Kenyon. Hudson and Kenyon published their work using a Creative Commons license. Realizing that an American audience would benefit from a version of this manual informed by American copyright law, Peter B. Hirtle prepared Copyright & Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives, & Museums with the permission and assistance of Hudson and Kenyon. This is a joint work with Hirtle, Hudson, and Kenyon serving as coauthors sharing copyright, for Hudson and Kenyon granted Hurtle "a nonexclusive license to use the original Guidelines in any subsequent noncommercial editions or works that are derived from this manual." As the preface points out, cultural institutions are deeply invested in and concerned about understanding, inter