How copyright enforcement robots killed the Hugo Awards
The site for all things sci-fi and fantasy, iO9, has the story:"Last night, robots shut down the live broadcast of one of science fiction's most prestigious award ceremonies. No, you're not reading a...
View ArticleAnother vendor appearing to need education about exactly WHO owns library data
These vendors/collaboratives exist to serve libraries, not the other way around. Libraries vote with their dollars and purchasing choices and to prevent this kind of behavior, they must utilize their...
View ArticleThe Contemporary Analog to Jarndyce v Jarndyce
France24 reports that an appellate court has suspended the Google Books lawsuit proceedings.See also this literary piece...
View Article7-Year Battle To Stop Google From Digitizing Libraries Is Ending With A Whimper
A nice, non-legalese summary of the Google Books story from Read Write Web:"Google's long-running fight to digitize the world's written works has closed two more chapters, but the story hasn't quite...
View ArticleTurns Out When Random House Said Libraries 'Own' Their Ebooks, It Meant, 'No'
Turns Out When Random House Said Libraries 'Own' Their Ebooks, It Meant, 'No, They Don't Own Them'"That means they don't want to worry about having the company they bought their books from suddenly...
View ArticleSteal My Book!
Why I’m abetting a rogue translation of my novel"Of course, I wish one of Russia’s two major ebook publishers had given me a couple thousand dollars for the rights, but neither did. Like many novelists...
View Articleunglue.it trying to unglue book on becoming a librarian
The site unglue.it has a few more books they are trying to unglue. One is - So You Want to Be a Librarian. See unglue.it for more details.
View ArticleLISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #228
This week's program deals with Wikipedia hoaxing, an Internet icon, and a miscellany of brief items.Related links:The Daily Mail: The war that never was: Most elaborate Wikipedia hoax ever as 4,500...
View ArticleOn the Media - Aaron Swartz
On January 11, 26-year-old hacker, programmer, and activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide. He had a history of depression and faced federal prosecution for downloading millions of articles from the...
View ArticleDr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Public Imagination
On August 28, 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. did what he’d done countless times before: he began building a sermon. And in his sermons King relied on improvisation, drawing on sources and references that...
View ArticlePublic Domain, My Dear Watson? Lawsuit Challenges Conan Doyle Copyrights
Some 125 years after his first appearance, Sherlock Holmes remains a hot literary property, inspiring thousands of pastiches, parodies and sequels in print, to saying nothing of the hit Warner Bros....
View ArticleCopyright Alert System: Six strikes and you're out
This week the entertainment industry and American ISPs rolled out a system that aims to curb illegal media downloads. The system is designed to first notify users of copyright infringement, and then to...
View ArticleThe Past, Present, and Future of Ownership
Radio program - On the Media - A special hour on our changing understanding of ownership and how it is affected by the law. An author and professor who encourages creative writing through plagiarism,...
View ArticleCopyright Ruling Rings With Echo of Betamax
NYT article discussing the Supap Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc case.Excerpt from article: More profoundly, the decision might even hasten the near-demise of print — spurring publishers into a...
View ArticleThirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle
Theft claims more victims and causes greater economic injury than any other criminal offense. Yet theft law is enigmatic, and fundamental questions about what should count as stealing remain...
View ArticleAs Works Flood In, Nation’s Library Treads Water
Article in the NYT about sequestration and the Library of Congress
View ArticleHow Copyright Makes Works Disappear . . .
An excellent new study at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2290181 looks at a random sample of new books for sale on Amazon.com shows three times more books initially published in the...
View ArticleMendeley and RefWorks Flow: The next, next generation of citation management...
A decade or so ago, ISI's EndNote bought out most of the competition, practically obtaining a monopoly on the reference manager business. In the early Library 2.0 boom, web-based products like Zotero...
View ArticleGoogle Gets Total Victory Over Authors Guild: Book Scanning Is Fair Use
This one has been a long time coming, but this morning, Judge Denny Chin (who actually has a long history of siding with copyright holders) found that Google's book scanning project is fair use. This...
View ArticleSherlock Holmes Is in the Public Domain, American Judge Rules
This New York Times story has the details."A federal judge has issued a declarative judgment stating that Holmes, Watson, 221B Baker Street, the dastardly Professor Moriarty and other elements included...
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