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Information Today February 25, 2002 George H. Pike |
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Copyright Challenge Case On February 19, the U.S. Supreme Court gave an unexpected, late Valentine surprise to the copyright and publishing communities by agreeing to hear a challenge to the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act... |
Searcher September 2012 Peter B. Hirtle |
Feature: When is 1923 Going to Arrive and Other Complications of the u.s. Public Domain The public domain has always existed, but the rise of digital and networked technologies has made it particularly important. Our copyright laws represent an agreement among powerful publishing and media interests that is intended to work for their mutual benefit. |
Information Today June 19, 2014 |
Court of Appeals Keeps Sherlock Holmes in the Public Domain The Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the ruling that the characters in the Sherlock Holmes series created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are in the public domain. |
Salon.com April 15, 2002 Damien Cave |
In defense of copyright A top intellectual property lawyer argues that the Supreme Court's decision to review the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act is plain wrong... |
Information Today January 20, 2003 George H. Pike |
Supreme Court Affirms Copyright Term Extension Act On Jan. 15, 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court released its much anticipated opinion upholding the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. The act extended the term of existing copyrights by 20 years, and also provided for longer terms for future copyrights, at least 70 years and in some cases well over 120 years. |
Information Today March 31, 2011 George H. Pike |
Google Book Settlement Rejected: What's Next? Last week's rejection of the proposed settlement of the lawsuit between Google and a group of authors and publishers has thrown the future of the Google Book database into question. |
Searcher July 2005 Laura Gordon-Murnane |
Generosity and Copyright: Creative Commons and Creative Commons Search Tools Librarians now have a useful tool they can use to help identify content that patrons might want to use in a podcast, a mash-up, a collage, a video contribution to a blog, a document, a presentation, or whatever. |
Salon.com February 21, 2002 Damien Cave |
Mickey Mouse vs. The People How an antiquarian bookseller and a Nathaniel Hawthorne fan sued Congress and ended up before the Supreme Court... |
Reason March 2003 Jesse Walker |
Locking Up Movies Master of the public domain? Free digital archives of out-of-print old movies could be a great resource, but for the fact that Congress keeps extending the copyright terms. |
Salon.com October 9, 2002 Richard Koman |
Riding along with the Internet Bookmobile Angered by a law that extends copyright terms for 20 years, a crusader named Brewster Kahle wants to use the Internet to make books available to everyone. |
Salon.com January 17, 2003 Siva Vaidhyanathan |
After the copyright smackdown: What next? Don't despair at the Supreme Court's gift to Disney, says one expert. The fight has really only just begun. |
Information Today October 7, 2014 Nancy K. Herther |
European Law Works to Move Copyright Into the 21st Century The European Court of Justice ruled that libraries, "for the purpose of research or private study," can digitize works as a legitimate fair use exemption to European Union copyright law, with some specific limitations. |
Information Today April 16, 2007 |
Stanford Launches Copyright Renewal Database The database is designed to be a tool for anyone researching the copyright status of books. |
D-Lib August 2008 Peter B. Hirtle |
Copyright Renewal, Copyright Restoration, and the Difficulty of Determining Copyright Status It is almost impossible to determine with certainty whether a work published from 1923 through 1963 in the US is in the public domain because of copyright restoration of foreign works. |
Information Today June 3, 2002 Wallys W. Conhaim |
Creative Commons Nurtures the Public Domain Creative Commons is a new nonprofit organization that develops alternative approaches to handling copyright licensing and encouraging contributions to the public domain within the framework of the current copyright system. |
InternetNews September 10, 2009 |
Lawmakers Probe Google Book Search Google's controversial digital book project saw another wave of public scrutiny this morning, this time in the form of a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the competitive implications of its landmark settlement with authors and publishers. |
Information Today June 26, 2008 Barbara Quint |
1923--1963: Google Book Search Targeting More Books for Public Domain? Before 1923, all library partners in the program let Google's mass digitization program grind away, but only a handful of library partners will risk letting post-1923, probably in-copyright material from their collections into the program. |
Information Today December 19, 2011 George H. Pike |
Class Action Filed in Google Books Case The long- delayed lawsuit over the Google Book project took a significant step toward court action and potentially farther away from a settlement with the filing of a motion for Class Certification by The Authors Guild and several individual authors. |
AskMen.com Ross Bonander |
5 Things You Didn't Know: Copyright Copyright constitutes one aspect of intellectual property law; here are five things you may not know about it. |
PC Magazine July 18, 2008 Sascha Segan |
Copyrights--and Wrongs Endless copyright terms don't promote creativity, they stifle it. |
Information Today September 12, 2011 George H. Pike |
Orphan Works Project to Scan Library Books for Online Database This Orphan Works Project could result in digital access to millions of out-of-print books, but it also runs a risk of violating federal copyright laws. |
Information Today March 25, 2013 George H. Pike |
A 'Total Victory' for the First Sale Doctrine from the Supreme Court In a powerful and conclusive opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that copyright's First Sale doctrine applies to all legal copyrighted works regardless of where they are manufactured. |
BusinessWeek April 5, 2004 Heather Green |
Creativity In Chains In Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, the author insists that our very ability to make cultural products is newly endangered. |
InternetNews October 8, 2004 Jim Wagner |
Entertainment Industry Looks For Supreme Relief The entertainment industry filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court to get a definitive ruling whether software companies should be allowed to create software used to facilitate pirating copyrighted material. |
Wired October 2002 Steven Levy |
Lawrence Lessig's Supreme Showdown Lawrence Lessig helped mount the case against Microsoft. He wrote the book on creative rights in the digital age. Now the cyberlaw star is about to tell the Supreme Court to smash apart the copyright machine. |
InternetNews October 27, 2005 |
Open Content Alliance: The World's Books For All International group of research libraries bands together to provide open online access to the world's books. |
InternetNews July 1, 2005 Erin Joyce |
Click Here For Inducement Disclaimers The Supreme Court's ruling that P2P technology developers can induce users to steal copyrighted works could be extended to search services that in effect publicize those P2P services. |
Searcher December 2002 Carol Ebbinghouse |
Just Can't Hardly Give It Away: Generosity Versus Copyright Many do not want to give up their copyright and the financial return on their creative work, but a growing number of creators do want to make their creations freely available. |
T.H.E. Journal October 2005 |
Library of Congress Launches Website The Library of Congress has launched a Web site to cover the work of a special independent committee that is recommending changes to section 108 of the Copyright Act. |
Wired December 2003 Gary Wolf |
The Great Library of Amazonia 120,000 fully searchable texts and counting. Jeff Bezos is building the world's biggest digital book archive. It's an info-age dream come true -- and the best way to sell books ever. |
D-Lib June 2006 |
Orphan Works Reasonable people may disagree about how the problem of orphan works should be resolved, but it is inarguable that a solution should be found. |
Wired December 2001 Lawrence Lessig |
May the Source Be With You The laws protecting software code are stifling creativity, destroying knowledge, and betraying the public trust. It's time to bust the copyright monopoly... |
InternetNews November 3, 2005 Tim Gray |
Google Opens Library Doors to the World The first large scale collection of public domain books went live online today as part of search giant Google's plan to amass the world of letters on the Internet. |
Information Today February 2006 K. Matthew Dames |
Intellectual Property: Library Schools and the Copyright Knowledge Gap From digitization projects to interlibrary loan and from electronic reserves to electronic books, copyright law is having an impact on librarianship. |
Information Today March 10, 2015 Abby Clobridge |
'Every Week Is Fair Use Week' Similar to Open Access Week, Fair Use Week is a loosely organized, week long event during which libraries, universities, museums, archives, and individuals raise awareness about fair use. |
ONLINE Jan/Feb 2010 Laura Gordon-Murnane |
Creative Commons: Copyright Tools for the 21st Century Copyright laws in the U.S. have been around since 1790, but two 20th-century revisions, coupled with the internet's fostering of a read/write culture, have had a significant impact on the use, reuse, and distribution of digital media and content in this century. |
Information Today October 11, 2012 George H. Pike |
Google's Settlement With Publishers Does Not Resolve All Library Project Issues After more than 7 years of litigation, Google and The Association of American Publishers reached a settlement over Google's ongoing Library Project to scan books from public and academic libraries and make the content available over Google. |
Information Today October 2001 George H. Pike |
Legal Issues - Understanding and Surviving Tasini The litigation over the Tasini ruling indicates that the issues raised by the court are anything but resolved. So how do we in both the database and the library communities survive in the interim? |
InternetNews June 27, 2005 Roy Mark |
High Court Rules Against P2P The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that peer-to-peer technology developers are legally responsible for the illegal acts of their users. |
InternetNews July 27, 2010 |
DMCA Ruling Allows iPhone Jailbreaks The Library of Congress has determined that users can modify, or jailbreak, their iPhones and other devices under the fair use protections of that statute. |
InternetNews September 28, 2004 Roy Mark |
New Induce Act Prompts Old Complaints Critics claim the bill will open digital music player makers to copyright infringement liability. |
Information Today September 22, 2011 Nancy K. Herther |
Authors Take Libraries to Court in Face Off on Copyright Issues On Sept. 12, eight authors -- including James Shapiro and Fay Weldon -- along with three key organizations representing authors in North America and Australia -- filed suit to stop academic libraries from their participation in HathiTrust digitization projects |
CFO August 1, 2012 Vincent Ryan |
High Court Upholds Health-Care Reform The Supreme Court's ruling leaves companies with decisions to make. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2013 Chris Thompson |
Harvard's Alternative to Google Books Universities launch a digital public library which will archive every book in the public domain and offer them online to anyone. The library's prototype is expected to launch this year. |
Salon.com November 2, 2001 Katharine Mieszkowski |
Dumpster diving on the Web The Internet Wayback Machine aims to archive everything online. But will copyright laws leave nothing but junk? |
Reason November 2004 David G. Post |
Free Culture vs. Big Media In the book Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, author Lawrence Lessig leads the charge to retake the public domain. |
Information Today October 18, 2010 Susanne Bjorner |
Creative Commons Releases Public Domain Mark Creative Commons announced the release of a tool that enables works free of known copyright restrictions to be labeled in a way that clearly communicates that status to the public and allows easy discovery of such works on the internet. |
Information Today June 9, 2015 |
U.S. Copyright Office Report Addresses Orphan Works and Mass Digitization The U.S. Copyright Office documented the problems that occur when using orphan works and engaging in mass digitization projects. |
InternetNews August 19, 2004 Roy Mark |
P2Ps Score Landmark Legal Victory Appeals court rebuffs movie and music industry claims that file-swapping developers are liable for copyright infringement. |
Search Engine Watch October 3, 2005 Gary Price |
A New Digital Library Alliance Makes its Debut Yahoo, The Internet Archive and several other organizations announced the formation of the Open Content Alliance to make thousands of books, multimedia files and other materials freely searchable and accessible online. |