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D-Lib March 2004 Catherine Ayre & Adrienne Muir |
The Right to Preserve: The Rights Issues of Digital Preservation The Copyright and Licensing for Digital Preservation (CLDP) project, which was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board, ran from September 2002 to March 2004. The project's aim was to investigate whether and how copyright legislation and licensed access to digital content affect the ability of libraries to provide long-term access to that content, and to suggest solutions for any problems identified. |
Information Today June 10, 2013 Marydee Ojala |
Europe Struggles With Licensing Text and Data Mining You could characterize Licences for Europe, the European Commission's Working Group 4 on text and data mining, either as a major meeting of the minds or as wishful thinking that scientists, librarians, publishers, and the entertainment industry could all just get along. |
D-Lib February 2006 Esther Hoorn |
Copyright Issues in Open Access Research Journals: The Authors' Perspective A survey reveals the desire on the part of academics to change the balance of rights within copyright between authors and publishers in scholarly communication journals. |
D-Lib September 2003 Gadd et al. |
The Intellectual Property Rights Issues Facing Self-archiving: Key Findings of the RoMEO Project The RoMEO project aimed to develop simple rights metadata by which academics could protect their research papers in an open-access environment and also to develop a means by which OAI Data and Service Providers could protect their open-access metadata. |
Information Today December 2005 Keith Kupferschmid |
Are Authors and Publishers Getting Scroogled? A copyright analysis of the Google Print Library Project. |
D-Lib October 2003 Geneva Henry |
On-line Publishing in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities To understand where publishing is headed, we must consider the possibilities of what can be achieved with new technologies that enable the exchange of knowledge and information in unprecedented ways. |
Searcher March 2005 Carol Ebbinghouse |
Open Access: The Battle for Universal, Free Knowledge Many publishers are joining authors in permitting open access through self-archiving in institutional repositories. |
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. |
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. |
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 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. |
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 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 February 26, 2015 |
Springer Partners With CCC for TDM Solution Springer Science+Business Media partnered with Copyright Clearance Center for a solution that enables corporate life sciences researchers to do text and data mining across publishers. |
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... |
Chemistry World May 23, 2011 Ned Stafford |
Report: Free researchers from copyright shackles A new government-commissioned review of UK copyright laws is recommending major changes that would have not only a major impact on the music and film industry, but also on scientific research. |
Searcher January 2001 Carol Ebbinghouse |
Final Hours: Tasini Goes to the Supreme Court The United States Supreme Court has announced it will hear the appeal New York Times v. Tasini. In hearing this case, the Supreme Court will decide the rights of freelance authors and perhaps the future of digital content... |
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. |
Information Today October 20, 2003 George H. Pike |
Database Protection Legislation Introduced in Congress On Oct. 8, 2003, the ongoing debate over the need for database protection returned to the floor of Congress with the introduction of House Bill 3261, the Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act. |
Reason July 2001 Mike Godwin |
Copywrong Why the Digital Millennium Copyright Act hurts the public interest... |
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. |
D-Lib Sep/Oct 2014 Behnk et al. |
Testing the HathiTrust Copyright Search Protocol in Germany: A Pilot Project on Procedures and Resources There are more than 11 million volumes in the HathiTrust Digital Library. The largest group of non-English books -- almost 600,000 titles -- is in German. For most of these German works, the copyright status is unknown. |
D-Lib November 2000 Michael Seadle |
Spoken Words, Unspoken Meanings A DLI2 Project Ethnography... |
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. |
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... |
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 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 March 4, 2014 Nancy K. Herther |
Text Mining: Elsevier Releases New Terms for Academe Elsevier says their new policy enshrines text- and data-mining rights in their standard ScienceDirect subscription agreement for academic customers. |
InternetNews October 19, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Print Hits The Fan The Association of American Publishers said it's suing Google over its plans to digitally copy and distribute copyrighted works without permission of the copyright owners. |
Information Today August 15, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Google slows library project to accommodate publishers Publishers complain about copyright issues with Google's Print for Libraries program. |
Information Today May 31, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Google Library Project Hit by Copyright Challenge from University Presses Extending the Google Print program to the digitization of five of the world's largest university research libraries, including copyrighted as well as non-copyrighted material, would inevitably seem to lead to a challenge of copyright violation. Oddly enough, the challenge has come from the less commercial publishers--the nonprofit university presses. |
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. |
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... |
IEEE Spectrum April 2008 Kirk Teska |
What Can You (Legally) Take From the Web? Web sites and bloggers beware: copyright law applies to you too. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Information Today June 28, 2001 Carol Ebbinghouse |
Tasini Case Final Decision: Authors Win The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on the issue of freelance writers' rights to separate compensation for electronic copies of their work... |
Information Today Richard Poynder |
U.K. Academics and Librarians Disagree Over Open Access Publishing At an April U.K. Parliament Science and Technology Select Committee session, librarians and academics disagreed with one another over excessive journal pricing, inflexibility over the "bundling" of electronic journals, inequitable copyright agreements, and restrictions on long-term access to digital material. |
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. |
InternetNews October 29, 2008 David Needle |
Authors Cheer Google Book Search Deal Settlement for $125 million ends a long battle over Google's Library project and searching inside books. |
Information Today January 2006 Richard Poynder |
To Have and to Hold - Viewpoint: Association of American Publishers The Association of American Publishers has taken a stand on Google Book Search, previously called the Google Print Library Project. Here is its viewpoint. |
Information Today September 1, 2015 |
CCC Adds Publisher Partners to RightFind XML for Mining Copyright Clearance Center signed two new publishers to its RightFind XML for Mining solution: Oxford University Press and Nature Publishing Group. |
Information Today February 13, 2006 Miriam A. Drake |
University of Michigan President Distresses Scholarly Publishers Mary Sue Coleman delivered an address that concerned the Google Book Library Project at the University of Michigan and issues related to copyright, preservation, and providing public access to knowledge. |
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?... |
T.H.E. Journal October 2003 |
Are You Breaking the Law? Copyright guidelines for video streaming and digital video in the classroom |
InternetNews September 21, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Authors Guild Gags on Google Library Authors sue Google in federal court over the Google Library program, charging massive copyright infringement. |
Linux Journal August 1, 2002 Lawrence Rosen |
Geek Law: Fair Use Unfortunately, the word fair has colloquial meanings that are different from the legal meaning of the phrase fair use. The law doesn't say that any licensing practice you find distasteful or that you morally oppose can be ignored if to do so would be fair. |
InternetNews August 31, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Extends Book Scanning Operation In the face of increasing protests from publishers, Google affirms its intention to go back to scanning books under copyright. |
InternetNews October 26, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
MSN Jumps on Book Search Wagon MSN hopped into the literary fray on Tuesday, announcing its intention to launch MSN Book Search in 2006. |