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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 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. |
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 December 6, 2012 George H. Pike |
`Window' for Terminating a Copyright Transfer Agreement Opens in 2013 A little-known provision of the Copyright Act of 1976 could wreak further havoc on a publishing industry already struggling to deal with the transition from traditional print formats to digital content. |
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 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 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" |
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 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? |
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 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 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 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 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. |
D-Lib November 2006 Peter B. Hirtle |
Author Addenda: An Examination of Five Alternatives While not perfect, author addenda can be an important tool that authors can use to retain the rights they want or that their employing institutions request that they retain. |
Information Today September 22, 2011 Nancy K. Herther |
Authors Take Libraries to Court in Face Off on Copyright Issues On Sept. 12, eight authors -- including James Shapiro and Fay Weldon -- along with three key organizations representing authors in North America and Australia -- filed suit to stop academic libraries from their participation in HathiTrust digitization projects |
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. |
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. |
Reason July 2001 Mike Godwin |
Copywrong Why the Digital Millennium Copyright Act hurts the public interest... |
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 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... |
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 January 17, 2012 Robin Peek |
Research Works Act Could Challenge Public Access to Federally Funded Research This act is designed to thwart activities such as the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy, which requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central. |
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. |
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... |
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... |
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... |
Reason June 2000 |
Controlling Student Bodies Letters on Alan Charles Kors's "Thought Reform 101" article on multiculturalism and indoctrination on the college campus. |
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... |
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. |
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. |
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 September 22, 2008 Robin Peek |
Fair Copyright in Research Works Act Challenges Federal Funding Some publishers are fighting the national Institutes of Health legislation that requires federally funded research to be made available through PubMed Central. |
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 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. |
InternetNews September 10, 2009 |
Lawmakers Probe Google Book Search Google's controversial digital book project saw another wave of public scrutiny this morning, this time in the form of a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the competitive implications of its landmark settlement with authors and publishers. |
Information Today December 2005 Keith Kupferschmid |
Are Authors and Publishers Getting Scroogled? A copyright analysis of the Google Print Library Project. |
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. |
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 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. |
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... |
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 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 January 23, 2007 Roy Mark |
Court Rejects Orphan Works Appeal Ninth Circuit rules 'no compelling reason' for First Amendment review of copyright law. |
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... |
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. |
D-Lib September 2004 Bonita Wilson |
Recommended Reading For the D-Lib audience: US Congressional Budget Office report, Copyright Issues in Digital Media... UK House of Commons Science and Technology Committee report, Scientific Publications: Free for All?... National Institutes of Health (NIH) publication Notice: Enhanced Public Access to NIH Research Information... |
Salon.com August 28, 2000 Eric Boehlert |
Four little words How the record industry used a tiny legislative amendment to try to steal recording copyrights from artists -- forever. |
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... |
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. |