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Information Today November 13, 2000 Paula J. Hane |
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Tasini Case In September 1999, the U.S. Appeals Court for the Second Circuit, in New York, reversed a lower-court decision and ruled that it's copyright infringement for a publisher to put a freelancer's work online or reuse or resell it without explicit permission... |
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... |
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 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? |
Information Today August 14, 2000 Paula J. Hane |
National Writers Union Reaches Agreement with Contentville; Freelance Writers Make Significant Progress in Royalty Compensation NWU reaches agreement with Contentville site on compensation of freelance writers for use of copyrighted works. |
Information Today April 2002 Barbara Quint |
Tasini Damage-Reporting Decisions Buyers of full-text services are now struggling with the aftermath of Tasini, and many vendors are not being forthright about what's been lost... |
Information Today March 30, 2001 Barbara Quint |
One Hour to Midnight: Tasini Oral Arguments at the Supreme Court Silence in the court. As the last red light flickered on the dais, the long legal debate over the rights of publishers to distribute content created by freelance writers in electronic form came to an end at 11:04 a.m. EST on Wednesday, March 28... |
Information Today April 4, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Post-Tasini Class Action Case Settling for Up to $18 Million The finding by the Supreme Court established that publishers and the information industry had to get approval from authors to electronically publish reports. The amount to be paid to writers under the settlement plan depends on a number of factors. |
Information Today March 9, 2009 Carol Ebbinghouse |
Supreme Court to Review Jurisdiction in Freelance Writers Case `Settlement' Freelancers take publishers to court to get compensation for their articles being downloaded from archives. |
Information Today October 22, 2001 Barbara Quint |
A Second Tasini? National Geographic Loses to Freelance Photographers On October 9, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the National Geographic Society to overturn an appellate court decision over digitized photographs that had posed another test of the intellectual property rights of freelancers... |
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. |
Searcher October 2005 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Apology How does Google Print contribute to the distribution of book literature? |
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 May 2002 Donald T. Hawkins |
Spring 2002 ASIDIC Meeting The Association of Information and Dissemination Centers Spring 2002 meeting took as its theme "Technologies and Business Models That Have Stood the Test of Time"... |
PC Magazine February 1, 2008 Dan Costa |
Print Is Dead. Long Live Print. How publishing-on-demand will transform the publishing industry. |
Information Today October 10, 2005 Carole Ebbinghouse |
We've Not Seen the Last of The Copyright Class Action So far, none of the organizations involved in The Copyright Class Action and In Re Literary Works in Electronic Databases Copyright Litigation or the copyright class action Web site have a press release or any mention of the final approval of the settlement by the court on Sept. 30. |
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. |
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 3, 2005 Barbara Quint |
The Other Shoe Drops: Google Print Sued for Copyright Violation Google has been charged with violating copyright in its massive digitization program, Google Print for Libraries. |
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. |
Information Today October 15, 2001 Gail Dykstra |
Canadian Court Rules in Favor of Freelance Authors For anyone interested in copyright, electronic databases, and freelance writers, there's a new Canadian decision you should know about that promises to be a landmark case... |
T.H.E. Journal May 2005 Kathleen E. Joswick |
Electronic Full-Text Journal Articles: Convenience or Compromise Educators must understand and communicate the scope and limitations of full-text databases in order to enable their students to become contentious consumers of electronic information. |
Information Today January 29, 2007 Barbara Quint |
NAPC Digitizing ERIC's Document Backfile The National Archive Publishing Co. has announced a 2-year project by which they will digitize a backfile of microfiche reports in ERIC (Education Resources Information Center). |
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. |
Searcher October 2004 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Unknown Known Problems for searchers and info pros due to new content and new readership and new distribution channels are good problems. These are problems worth investing the sweat equity it will take to solve them. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2010 Donald W. King |
An Approach to Open Access Author Payment This article discusses a few of the favorable and unfavorable issues with Open Access through author payment and proposes an approach that takes advantage of the favorable aspects and overcomes some of the unfavorable ones. |
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 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 2002 Barbara Quint |
The Eternal Watchdog What exactly will information professionals -- librarians or professional searchers or whatever you want to call us -- do in the future? What set of skills will we possess that will both identify us to our clients and earn us the big bucks? |
Information Today October 2004 Barbara Quint |
Up Front with Barbara Quint: Future of the NIH Open Access Policy Basically, the NIH, funder of at least a quarter of the world's best medical research, will mandate that all grantees and contractors submit electronic copies of finished manuscripts for full-text release through PubMed Central, the National Library of Medicine's popular medical research site. |
Information Today February 2001 Barbara Quint |
Blazing Some New Advertising Trails "The money I pay for a commercial online search and you expect me to have to read some stupid ads?" But nowadays everyone sees ads on their search results all the time, mainly because we all use Web sources that depend on ad revenue to support free or low-cost service... |
Searcher December 2000 Jill E. Grogg & Carol Tenopir |
Linking to Full Text in Scholarly Journals There is an exciting variety of options, but a variety that can confuse both information professionals and end users. When trying to find the full text of journal articles, the promises and advertisements of aggregators and publishers often seem inflated... |
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 October 30, 2008 |
Google Reaches Settlement Agreement with Publishers and Authors The settlement would expand online access to millions of in-copyright books and other written materials in the U.S. from the collections of a number of major U.S. libraries participating in Google Book Search. |
Information Today August 2002 Paula J. Hane |
InfoToday 2002 Context and convergence were popular topics at this New York information industry event. |
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. |
Information Today August 2009 Barbara Quint |
Feature: Where Have All the Archives Gone? What are libraries getting for their precious and shrinking institutional dollars? The most interesting factor is what they are not getting, and all too often, that is a complete archive of online publications, including newspapers. |
Information Today December 31, 2001 Paula J. Hane |
2001 News in Review It was really quite a busy year for news. Many information industry companies struggled, reported staff cutbacks and restructuring, acquired or were acquired, repackaged products and services, and partnered with others. |
Information Today February 13, 2006 Paula Berinstein |
Ad-Supported Free Books Arrive Citing the desire to create new revenue streams for authors, mega-publisher HarperCollins has announced the first free Web-based, ad-supported, full-text business book. |
Information Today January 2001 |
What's Ahead for 2001? Information Today has asked a group of information industry movers and shakers about the present state of the industry, as well as where they think it's going. The contributions below range from the serious to the not-so, but we're sure you'll find them all thought-provoking... |
Searcher May 2008 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Redundancy A basic goal of information professionals is the guaranteeing that all information in existence stays in existence, the command to archive. However, something is slipping and sliding away: redundancy. |
Information Today March 6, 2014 |
Wiley and Kudos Help Authors Promote Their Work Wiley partnered with Kudos to help authors maximize the impact of their articles with a focus on social media. |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2003 Greg R. Notess |
On the Net: A Decade on the Net Looking back over 10 years' worth of columns gives a snapshot of the growth of the Internet as a major information resource and a look at how it has changed. |
Information Today September 15, 2008 Barbara Quint |
Google Digitization Initiative to Expand Google News Archive The company has offered free digitization to any newspaper publisher willing to put all or any part of its archives onto the web for access through Google News Archive. |
Searcher June 2004 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Critic Insuring data quality requires constant monitoring. |
Information Today February 22, 2011 |
Google Introduces Google One Pass for Purchasing Digital Content With Google One Pass, publishers can maintain direct relationships with their customers and give readers access to digital content across websites and mobile apps. |
InternetNews April 29, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Google Defends Book Search Deal Google again finds itself on the defensive, trying to prove that it's not engaging in patently anti-competitive behavior. |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2004 George Plosker |
Making Money as an Aggregator How to be a successful aggregator when the public doesn't want to pay for content. |