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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 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 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... |
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 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 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 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 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 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 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... |
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 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 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 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 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 28, 2014 George H. Pike |
Appeals Court Reverses Georgia State Fair Use Decision A federal appellate court reversed a fair use finding in favor of Georgia State University in its long-standing copyright dispute with several academic publishers. |
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. |
Searcher September 2001 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - That Windblown Look Now that the Supreme Court has made its decision in the Tasini case, one which confirms the copyright ownership of freelance authors in full-text material currently online, our world trembles as it waits to learn how publishers, database aggregators, search services, and authors will work out their ownership problems. |
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. |
Information Today August 27, 2012 George H. Pike |
Georgia State University Declared 'Prevailing Party' in Copyright Battle GSU was sued for copyright infringement for its practice of scanning publishers' works for use in course webpages, on courseweb software such as Blackboard, and its e-reserve services. |
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 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 August 2002 Paula J. Hane |
InfoToday 2002 Context and convergence were popular topics at this New York information industry event. |
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. |
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. |
ONLINE September 2001 Marydee Ojala |
Preservation, Conservation, and Copyright We use technology to preserve the past. We access the technologically preserved past to help us predict the future. Digitizing information has considerable consequences... |
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2011 Jill Wechsler |
The Supremes Shape Pharma A number of important decisions from the Supreme Court will affect drug marketing, research, and regulation |
Information Today June 30, 2003 Barbara Quint |
Public Libraries Face Net Filtering Following Supreme Court Decision The Children's Internet Protection Act, which mandates that libraries accepting federal funding to assist patrons with Internet access must use Net filters to block pornography, has withstood legal challenge. Across the country, public librarians began to struggle with its ramifications. |
Information Today April 15, 2010 Nancy Herther |
Google Sued for Copyright Infringement by Photographers and Visual Artists Google is accused of illegally scanning millions of copyrighted images in what the suit calls "the most widespread, well-publicized, and uncompensated infringement of exclusive rights in images in the history of book and periodical publishing" |
Information Today June 28, 2012 |
Gale to Bring National Geographic Treasures to Libraries Gale and the National Geographic Society, one of the world's largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations, announced an extended agreement to create additional library products as part of a new product suite, National Geographic Virtual Library. |
Information Today December 2005 Dick Kaser |
War and Peace What will Google's project yield if the pending legal actions halt the digitization of anything other than books in the public domain? |
Searcher January 2004 Barbara Quint |
Encyclopedia of the Future: "The Library" By the early years of the 21st century, the forces of technology began to press the information professional community to re-examine the basic infrastructure of service to clients and to consider centralizing national and international library resources... |
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... |
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. |
Searcher April 2007 Grogg & Ashmore |
Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies Few things in the past decade have brought libraries and subsequent controversy into the mainstream media as much as the google book search library project. |
Information Today December 18, 2008 Barbara Quint |
"Hundreds of Titles," "Dozens of Publishers"--Magazines Going Into Google Book Search As Google Book Search turns more and more into what might be better named "Google Library" (or even "Everyone's Library"), it has expanded to include magazines. |
IndustryWeek September 27, 2002 John S. McClenahen |
Business' Big Stake In U.S. Supreme Court's New Term Communications licenses, copyrights and product liability are already on the docket; funding elections likely will be. |
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. |
Information Today June 24, 2014 George H. Pike |
First Sale Hearing Raises Questions on Kirtsaeng and Digital Goods A congressional hearing on the future of the first sale doctrine produced great discussion but little consensus on whether Congress should modify the doctrine in response to the Supreme Court's decision. |
BusinessWeek March 24, 2011 Greg Stohr |
Wal-Mart Faces the Big Box of Bias Suits A Supreme Court review of a massive gender discrimination suit against Wal-Mart could usher in new rules regarding class actions. |
BusinessWeek June 22, 2011 Greg Stohr |
Wal-Mart Case: Another Loss for Trial Lawyers The Supreme Court's ruling is the latest in a series of decisions that make it clear the justices aim to curb mass litigation. |
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 June 17, 2013 Nancy K. Herther |
Apple Gambles on Winning Ebook Antitrust Suit The U.S. Department of Justice came out swinging in its opening statement of its antitrust suit against Apple in New York on June 3, 2013. |
BusinessWeek November 18, 2010 Greg Stohr |
Wal-Mart vs. a Million Angry Women Wal-Mart wants the Supreme Court to block a huge gender-bias suit. |
The Motley Fool June 20, 2011 Alyce Lomax |
Wal-Mart's Still Courting Problems The Supreme Court has sided with Wal-Mart, but what about the court of public opinion? |
The Motley Fool March 29, 2011 Alyce Lomax |
Another Big Problem for Wal-Mart The latest in Wal-Mart's plethora of problems has taken the company all the way to the Supreme Court. A proposed class action lawsuit would pit more than a million female employees against the corporate giant. |
D-Lib December 1999 |
Editorial As publications become available both online and in print, some groups of users find that they prefer the online versions. But in relinquishing the tradition of print journals, libraries require more than a few assurances from the publisher on whom they must depend... |
D-Lib December 2007 Kaufman & Ubois |
Good Terms - Improving Commercial-Noncommercial Partnerships for Mass Digitization OCLC Programs and Research engaged Intelligent Television to study the partnership agreements between cultural institutions and for-profit companies for the mass digitization of books and other media. This report presents the findings of that study. |
Information Today October 6, 2015 George H. Pike |
The Legal Implications of Banned Books Week The American Library Association's annual Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to read by drawing attention to attempts to censor reading materials in public, school, and academic libraries. |