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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.   |
Search Engine Watch
September 26, 2007
Grant Crowell |
Copyright Law: What Search Marketers Should Know (Part 1) Most online copyright infringement issues are best handled by being diplomatic and professional, and can be handled with some simple legal procedures. |
Linux Journal
July 2001
Lawrence Rosen |
Copyright Confusion Do I need to put a copyright notice on my software?... Can a software license restrict my ability to use software?... |
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... |
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
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. |
Entrepreneur
June 2007 |
In the Know Find out all you can about patents, trademarks and copyrights now - your business will thank you later. |
CIO
August 1, 2003
Radcliffe & Rosen |
Patent, Copyright and Trade Secret -- What's the Difference? - The intellectual property in software can be protected three ways: patents, copyrights and trade secrets. |
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
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. |
Reason
July 2001
Mike Godwin |
Copywrong Why the Digital Millennium Copyright Act hurts the public interest... |
Search Engine Watch
October 26, 2009
Ron Jones |
Internet Law 101, Part 2 Learn the basics about copyrighting your Web site content, Web agreements, privacy policy issues, and domain issues including cybersquatting, typosquatting, hijacking, and transfer fraud. |
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... |
Searcher
February 2002
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Not All Laws Are Free: The Importance of the Veeck Case When it comes to legal issues, an erroneous assumption older than the Internet appears: The text of all laws is free of copyright and may be copied and/or distributed freely... |
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. |
D-Lib
February 2000
Lynn Pritcher |
Ad*Access: Seeking Copyright Permissions for a Digital Age A description of the copyright issues faced by an academic institution wishing to place a library of advertisements on the Internet. Includes a description of their efforts to determine copyright holders and obtain permissions. |
InternetNews
November 11, 2005
Roy Mark |
Public Knowledge Pans AG's Copyright Proposal Digital rights group Public Knowledge picks apart legislation that puts copyright theft in criminal code. |
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. |
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. |
AskMen.com
Jim Bauer |
How To: Register A Trademark If you're in business (even if it's a small, part-time operation) or you have an idea for a product, then chances are that at least part of what makes your operation unique can be protected under trademark law. |
Salon.com
August 31, 2001
Damien Cave |
Copywrong? A government report giving the Digital Millennium Copyright Act a passing grade is a disaster for the general public, say critics... |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
September 27, 2007
Grant Crowell |
Copyright Law: What Search Marketers Should Know (Part 2) Addressing copyright infringement issues can be a tricky business. Take the time to plan out your approach so you can get through it quickly and easily. |
D-Lib
March 2002
Michael Seadle |
Whose Rules? Intellectual Property, Culture, and Indigenous Communities This article is about the soft side of copyright: not just what will stand up in court, but what lies in the cultural expectations of the creators and users of intellectual property, especially those from non-western backgrounds... |
Searcher
January 2004
Carol Ebbinghouse |
If at First You Don't Succeed, Stop! Proposed legislation to set up new intellectual property right in facts themselves |
Information Today
January 5, 2016
George H. Pike |
The Year in Congress: Accomplishments in 2015 A review is offered of new laws that affect the library community and the information industry. |
Information Today
November 19, 2013
George H. Pike |
Google's Fair Use Defense Prevails in Google Books Lawsuit A federal court in New York gave Google a huge victory that may likely end its 9-year fight with the Authors Guild and individual authors over the Google Books scanning project. |
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. |
Information Today
December 31, 2007
George H. Pike |
Congress Proposes to Enhance IP Enforcement and Penalties The Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property (PRO-IP) Act, H.R. 4279, proposes a number of steps to strengthen the enforcement of copyright, trademark, and patent laws and to increase criminal and civil penalties for copyright infringement. |
Information Today
January 2002 |
Moral Rights for Authors and Artists Moral rights safeguard personal and reputational rights, which permit authors to defend both the integrity of their works and the use of their names... |
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
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... |
Search Engine Watch
October 4, 2007
Grant Crowell |
Search and the Law: Attorney Deborah Wilcox Deborah Wilcox, co-chair of a national intellectual property litigation practice, discusses changes in attitudes toward online intellectual property, the challenges courts face in litigating online IP and trademark cases, and consumer confusion over search ads. |
Search Engine Watch
October 18, 2007
Grant Crowell |
Trademark Law - What Search Marketers Should Know, Part 2 Important tips and tactics used by online intellectual property attorneys and legal counsels for search engines, for both protecting trademark material and respecting the trademarks of others. |
InternetNews
January 23, 2007
Roy Mark |
Court Rejects Orphan Works Appeal Ninth Circuit rules 'no compelling reason' for First Amendment review of copyright law. |
Salon.com
September 6, 2000
Eric Boehlert |
Technical foul MP3.com goes to court with a tricky defense, alleging that Universal doesn't own the music it markets. |
Wired
October 2000
John Heilemann |
David Boies: The Wired Interview Wired and Boies talked for several hours about the lawyer's defense strategy for the Napster case, the future of intellectual property and free speech in a networked world, and how it feels for this David to be taking on yet another Goliath... |
Search Engine Watch
October 3, 2007
Grant Crowell |
Search and the Law: Attorney Clarke Douglas Walton Clarke Douglas Walton, an attorney and former VP of an SEM firm, discusses trademark usage in PPC advertising, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and future legal issues on the horizon for search marketers. |
Information Today
December 2003
Dick Kaser |
Intranet Publishers Beware! The ruling in Lowry's vs. Legg Mason should send a warning to everyone who operates the content side of an intranet. As a publisher for your organization, you need to understand and respect copyright law. |
Information Today
September 22, 2008
Robin Peek |
Fair Copyright in Research Works Act Challenges Federal Funding Some publishers are fighting the national Institutes of Health legislation that requires federally funded research to be made available through PubMed Central. |
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... |
T.H.E. Journal
March 2008
Neal Starkman |
Do the (Copy)right Thing Educators' lack of attention to intellectual property law places their schools in legal jeopardy-and sends a terrible message to students. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
March 30, 2006
Sara Holoubek |
Trademark Protection, Copyright and Search Engines What do you do when someone is playing fast and loose with your intellectual property online? A panel of legal experts offer suggestions for a range of potential scenarios. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2005
Ben Klemens |
New Legal Code Copyrights should replace software patents. |
D-Lib
December 1999 |
Digital Dilemma Intellectual Property: Synopsis and Views on the Study by the National Academies' Committee on Intellectual Property Rights and the Emerging Information Infrastructure |
Information Today
November 19, 2009 |
International Activists Launch New Copyright Watch Website The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Electronic Information for Libraries, and other international copyright experts joined together to launch a public website created to centralize resources on national copyright laws. |
AskMen.com
Aaron Broverman |
How To: Protect An Idea While the majority of ideas have already been thought of, if yours is unique, here are some tips to protect them and reap the benefits. |
InternetNews
May 18, 2007
Clint Boulton |
Will Copyright Alliance's Wax Trigger YouTube's Wane? YouTubes of the world be warned. This coalition vows to uphold and enforce copyright laws under the First Amendment. |
