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outside copyright, referred to as paracopyright. Paracopyright includes efforts related to licensing and technological protection measures (chapter 6) undertaken by rights holders and vendors who fear that copyright law protections are insufficient. Such efforts have emerged in the vacuum created by the slow pace of legal revision, yet it is essential to learn and understand how to work with these measures and leverage them accordingly. By deepening this understanding, the reader can consider more clearly the ramifications of the borderless digital domain, technological neutrality, and harmonization of international copyright laws (chapter 7). Thus the reader is better positioned to contemplate the future and leverage him-or herself to contribute positively to the advancement of the scholarly record and the public good.Academia and beyond are currently (and likely will be continuously) in a landscape of constant change driven by the ever accelerating pace of technology, the Internet, and digital communications. The explosion of digital content, combined with the growth in sophisticated content and learning management platforms, social media, and MOOCs have taken our online lives and experiences to a new level-and along with it underscored the challenge of operating under 20th-century laws in a rapid, agile 21st-century reality. The sheer speed of the digital 21st century can be daunting in its ability to catch us wrong-footed-more reactive, less proactive. This rapid and agile 21st-century reality is driven by creativity and creative expression. For librarians, this book is an essential tool to increase awareness, engagement, agility and proactive support of creativity and academic expression on campus and at large.While researchers and teachers undertake the highest and most respected levels of creative expression for the purpose of scholarly discovery and the advancement of knowledge, it is important for all contributors to the 21st-century digital domain to understand the intellectual property landscape, including where they are positioned and how to navigate to better, and further, contribute. Given the growing student population across all teaching and learning modalities, the quality of their academic work, projects, and innovations that they want and should contribute to society's body of knowledge, it is critical for librarians to be informed participants. While it is hard to know when or where that question related to intellectual property will come, it will come. And there is a good chance that more of these questions will come from students who are not planning to pursue higher academic degrees to formally enter into the discourse. Students of today, from all educational levels, are engaged with contributing to scholarly and practice-based knowledge.Kevin Smith is a librarian and attorney specializing in copyright and technology law. As the Director of the Office of Scholarly Communications at Duke University, he works to ensure that the Duke community is informed about, and engaged with, the evolving...