Copyright Waffle Episode 28 with Monica Westin

Chris and Jane (copyrightliteracy.org) talk to upcoming Icepops keynote Monica Westin about her journey from library school, through to Google, Manchester Metropolitan University and now to Cambridge University Press. We discuss how big tech companies deal with copyright takedown requests, what the legal and ethnical implications of new technologies are on finding and accessing information and finally what her favourite cake is. With thanks to Aiden Clark for his editing support on this episode. Monica's blog: https://www.monicawestin.com/ Monica will be our keynote at Icepops 2025: https://copyrightliteracy.org/2025/07/17/icepops-2025-draft-programme-now-available/ California Digital Library: https://cdlib.org/ Google Scholar co-founder Anurag Acharya: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anurag_Acharya DMCA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act Google transparency reports: https://transparencyreport.google.com/?hl=en_GB Project Lumen: https://cyber.harvard.edu/research/lumen Internet Archive Scholar: https://scholar.archive.org/ Mark Graham: https://blog.archive.org/author/mark/ Copyright heroes Alyce Scott: https://ischool.sjsu.edu/post/alyce-scott Katie Fortney https://cdlib.org/contact/staff_directory/katie-fortney-staff-profile/ and Rachael Samberg: https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/help/staff-directory/rachael-samberg TorrentFreak: https://torrentfreak.com/ Creative Commons team: https://creativecommons.org/mission/team/ Google Scholar co-founder Anurag Acharya: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anurag_Acharya Louise Koch at MMU Cake NYT Plum Torte recipe: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/3783-original-plum-torte or: https://coleycooks.com/plum-torte/ 20th Century Cafe Honey Cake: https://www.thebutterlab.com/blog/honeycake