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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.   |
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
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... |
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. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2006
David Kushner |
Uncommon Law An interview with Lawrence Lessig, founder and chair of Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that lets copyright holders, from musicians to engineers, grant flexible use of their work on his plans to launch the Science Commons with the hopes of expanding into the world of research. |
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. |
Reason
July 2001
Mike Godwin |
Copywrong Why the Digital Millennium Copyright Act hurts the public interest... |
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... |
Salon.com
November 7, 2001
Marc Rotenberg |
Internet liberation theology In "The Future of Ideas" Lawrence Lessig explains why ham-handed efforts to increase copyright protection are a threat to freedom and prosperity... |
Reason
June 2002
Jesse Walker |
Cyberspace's Legal Visionary Lawrence Lessig on the fate of copyrights and computer networks in the digital future... |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
February 16, 2006
David Needle |
Lessig Makes Plea For Read/Write Internet A Stanford law professor says that today's fast-growing, free-wheeling Internet is threatened by network providers who want to control innovation and commerce on the Internet. |
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... |
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... |
InternetNews
October 30, 2007
David Needle |
Yahoo: 'IP Rules!' Yahoo's head intellectual property lawyer explains why the Internet is keeping a lot of legal staffs busier than ever. |
BusinessWeek
April 5, 2004
Heather Green |
Creativity In Chains In Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, the author insists that our very ability to make cultural products is newly endangered. |
PC Magazine
July 18, 2008
Sascha Segan |
Copyrights--and Wrongs Endless copyright terms don't promote creativity, they stifle it. |
Scientific American
February 14, 2005 |
Beyond the Big How copyright became "no right to copy." Overly strong property rights can threaten the Internet as a medium capable of fostering dynamic interchange of ideas. |
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
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. |
InternetNews
August 15, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
Lessig: Free Culture Needs Free Software Can the fight for free culture be won with free software? |
New Architect
July 2002
Lincoln Stein |
Fate of the Commons Lawrence Lessig's provocative book The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World explores the danger of owning ideas. |
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
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. |
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
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 |
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. |
D-Lib
Jul/Aug 2013
Fowler & Smith |
Drawing the Blueprint As We Build: Setting Up a Library-based Copyright and Permissions Service for MOOCs The rapid growth of Massively Open Online Courses in higher education has raised the question of what services libraries on campus can, and should, provide for these courses. |
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. |
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. |
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... |
InternetNews
January 23, 2007
Roy Mark |
Court Rejects Orphan Works Appeal Ninth Circuit rules 'no compelling reason' for First Amendment review of copyright law. |
InternetNews
March 24, 2005
Tim Gray |
Yahoo Offers Creative Commons Search Yahoo Creative Commons will help developers and site owners find content published by authors willing to share or reuse it. |
Macworld
February 2001
Philip Michaels |
Copyright Program Simplifies Paperwork Official Copyright 1.5 is a great source of copyright information, offering a tutorial on copyright issues and an efficient search feature that helps you find the right form. But the registration process is where Official Copyright really earns its keep... |
Search Engine Watch
March 3, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Finding Free Content in the Creative Commons The Creative Commons search engine can help you find tons of (legally) free stuff on the web, such as photos, music, text, and books. |
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. |
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. |
Wired
October 2002
Steven Levy |
Lawrence Lessig's Supreme Showdown Lawrence Lessig helped mount the case against Microsoft. He wrote the book on creative rights in the digital age. Now the cyberlaw star is about to tell the Supreme Court to smash apart the copyright machine. |
InternetNews
June 21, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
Microsoft's Creative Copyright Move Software giant Microsoft said it will offer a free tool for Office users to embed Creative Commons copyright options in Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. |
InternetNews
May 25, 2007
Gerit Quealy |
All's Fair in Fair Use? The Viacom/Google-YouTube copyright skirmish could be the latest in a string of lawsuits desperately attempting to clarify what constitutes fair use. |
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. |
Wired
June 2004 |
The Free & The Unfree The notion that ideas can be protected, like land or gold, from bandits predates Gutenberg's printing press. But only in the digital age has the concept of intellectual property set off an international free-for-all. |
Information Today
October 2, 2006
Robin Peek |
The British Library Releases Intellectual Property Manifesto The British Library released a document called "Intellectual Property: A Balance - The British Library Manifesto," which tackles increasingly unforgiving intellectual property laws. |
Information Today
August 26, 2014
Abby Clobridge |
New MOOC Teaches Educators and Librarians About Copyright Copyright for Educators & Librarians is one of a few new courses directly related to the work of librarians and information professionals. |
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?... |
