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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...   |
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 |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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. |
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... |
Salon.com
March 13, 2002
Damien Cave |
Chained melodies Copyright-holding corporations are pushing new laws and computer-crippling technologies in their war on piracy. But can anything keep geeks from copying the music and movies they crave? |
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
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. |
New Architect
November 2002
Bret A. Fausett |
Minds of Their Own Copyright protection flags violate our right to fair use. |
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
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... |
PC World
November 19, 2002
Michelle Madigan |
Copy Control Complaint Desk Opens Formal public comment on DMCA invited for one month, then feds will reconsider act. |
InternetNews
November 17, 2005
Roy Mark |
'Fair Use' Becomes Fair Game in House U.S. lawmakers struggle to balance consumer rights with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. |
Wired
November 2004
Hilary Rosen |
How I Learned to Love Larry She was the champion of the music industry. He was the voice of the people. It was a deathmatch made in heaven, but they found common ground... Done right, copyrights can inspire the next digital revolution... |
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... |
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. |
Information Today
June 2009
K. Matthew Dames |
Intellectual Property: Why the Frame of `Piracy' Matters What does piracy really mean? The term's definition and history are important along with the reasons why its continued misrepresentation matters to the country's copyright policy. |
InternetNews
April 14, 2006
David Miller |
Report Details DMCA Misuses A new report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation takes aim at the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a controversial law enacted seven years ago to protect intellectual property in the digital age. |
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
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. |
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. |
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 |
Reason
May 2002
Mike Godwin |
Hollywood vs. the Internet Why entertainment companies want to hack your computer... |
PC World
November 2002
Dylan F. Tweney |
Hollywood vs. Your PC Movie and music moguls are hopping mad over the new technologies that are transforming digital entertainment. Washington is listening. what's at risk? Your ability to enjoy DVDs and CDs you've bought, your privacy -- even your control over your PC. |
Information Today
July 17, 2008 |
New Report on Copyright Law and Digital Preservation The Library of Congress, through its National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) has issued a joint report on the impact of copyright law on digital preservation. |
Information Today
November 2001
Stephanie C. Ardito |
Legal Issues - The Case of Dmitry Sklyarov Some of us who regularly write about intellectual property issues jokingly refer to publishers as the "copyright police," and contemplate being thrown into "copyright jail" for "violating" fair-use laws. Now a civilian is being tried by the U.S. government for such a "crime"... |
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
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. |
InternetNews
June 22, 2004
Roy Mark |
Fair Use Bill Gains New Momentum House Energy and Commerce chairman endorses bill to expand consumer rights under the DMCA. |
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. |
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. |
Wired
March 2004
Lawrence Lessig |
Some Like It Hot OK, P2P is "piracy." But so was the birth of Hollywood, radio, cable TV, and (yes) the music industry. |
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... |
PC World
January 14, 2003
Malaika Costello-Dougherty |
A Truce Over Copy Controls? Hollywood, tech industries agree to fight piracy and legislation, but support technical restrictions. |
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. |
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. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2003 |
Are You Breaking the Law? Copyright guidelines for video streaming and digital video in the classroom |
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 2005
Keith Kupferschmid |
Are Authors and Publishers Getting Scroogled? A copyright analysis of the Google Print Library Project. |
PC World
August 31, 2001
Frank Thorsberg |
Will Copyright Law Kill Your Computing Habits? The Digital Millennium Copyright Act faces scrutiny and its first cases--including Sklyarov's prosecution. |
Salon.com
January 15, 2003
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Hollywood and Silicon Valley: Together at last? A new industry agreement on digital copyright issues says the government should stay out of enforcement. But it's a little late for that, says one expert. |
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. |
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. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2014
Brook et al. |
The Social, Political and Legal Aspects of Text and Data Mining There is a vast literature describing research into, and applications of text and data mining, as well as the technical challenges. Relatively little has been written on the political, social and legal barriers involved. |
Information Today
August 5, 2010
George H. Pike |
Digital Copyright Exemptions Benefit Educators, Filmmakers and Smartphone Owners The Librarian of Congress recently approved several new exemptions to the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. |
PC World
January 8, 2003
Grant Gross |
Bill Would Allow Copying of Music, Movies Digital Media Consumer Rights Acts would permit consumers to break the copy controls on CDs and DVDs to make personal copies. |
New Architect
March 2002
Mark Baugher |
Legal and Binding Does the DMCA Threaten Open Standards Development? |
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. |
