"Copyright Risk Management: Principles and Strategies for Large-Scale...
The Association of Research Libraries has released a pre-publication version of "Copyright Risk Management: Principles and Strategies for Large-Scale Digitization Projects in Special Collections."...
View Article"It Was Never a Universal Library: Three Years of the Google Book Settlement"
Walt Crawford has published "It Was Never a Universal Library: Three Years of the Google Book Settlement" in Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large. Here's an excerpt: Remember the Google Books...
View ArticleGoogle and Publishers Settle Seven-Year-Old Copyright Lawsuit over Google...
Google and the Association of American Publishers have settled the copyright lawsuit over Google Library Project. The related Authors Guild lawsuit has not been settled. Here's an excerpt from the...
View ArticleHathitrust Wins Authors Guild, Inc. et al. v. Hathitrust et al. Case
James Grimmelmann reports in "HathiTrust Wins" that Hathitrust has won the Authors Guild, Inc. et al. v. Hathitrust et al. case . Here's an excerpt: On every substantive copyright issue, HathiTrust...
View ArticleCommittee Formed to Examine National-Scale Higher Education Digital Projects
The Council on Library and Information Resources and Vanderbilt University have formed the Committee on Coherence at Scale for Higher Education to examine national-scale higher education digital...
View Article"Brief of Digital Humanities and Law Scholars as Amici Curiae in Authors...
Matthew L. Jockers, Matthew Sag, and Jason Schultz have self-archived "Brief of Digital Humanities and Law Scholars as Amici Curiae in Authors Guild v. Google" in SSRN. Here's an excerpt: The brief...
View Article"Suing HathiTrust"
C.E. Petit has published "Suing HathiTrust" in Scrivener's Error: Warped Weft. Here's an excerpt: This is an initial review only of the third segment of the Google BookScan lawsuits, generally known as...
View ArticleCopyright: Authors Guild Appeals HathiTrust Ruling
The Authors Guild is appealing the Authors Guild, Inc. et al. v. HathiTrust et al. ruling. Here's an excerpt from the "LCA Issues Statement on Authors Guild's Appeal of HathiTrust Decision": We are...
View ArticleDigital Copyright: Google Asks Court to Reverse Class Certification Decision...
In a brief, Google has asked the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse the class certification decision by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in The...
View ArticleAuthors Guild et al. v. Google: "Brief of Amici Curiae Academic Authors in...
Pamela Samuelson and David R. Hansen have self-archived "Brief of Amici Curiae Academic Authors in Support of Defendant-Appellant and Reversal" in SSRN. Here's an excerpt: Summary of argument: Class...
View Article"The Authors Guild v. Hathitrust: A Way Forward for Digital Access to...
James Aaron has self-archived "The Authors Guild v. Hathitrust: A Way Forward for Digital Access to Neglected Works in Libraries" in SSRN. Here's an excerpt: This Comment begins by describing the...
View ArticleEFF and Public Knowlege’s Comments on Copyright Office’s Orphan Works Inquiry
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Knowledge have released their comments on the Notice of Inquiry by the Copyright Office for comments regarding orphan works, Docket No. 2012-12. Here's an...
View Article"Response to Library of Congress NOI on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization"
Denise Troll Covey has self-archived "Response to Library of Congress NOI on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization" in SelectedWorks. Here's an excerpt: Responding on behalf of Carnegie Mellon University,...
View ArticleArchives and Copyright: Risk and Reform
CREATe has released Archives and Copyright: Risk and Reform. Here's an excerpt: This paper considers the place of the archive sector within the copyright regime, and how copyright impacts upon the...
View Article"Fair Use & Mass Digitization: The Future of Copy-Dependent Technologies...
Angel Siegfried Diaz has self-archived "Fair Use & Mass Digitization: The Future of Copy-Dependent Technologies after Authors Guild v. Hathitrust" in SSRN. Here's an excerpt from: This note...
View Article"The HathiTrust Case and Appeal: A Policy Brief"
The EDUCAUSE Policy Office has released "The HathiTrust Case and Appeal: A Policy Brief." Here's an excerpt: On October 10, 2012, Judge Harold Baer of the U.S. District Court in New York ruled in favor...
View Article"Laying the Groundwork for Newspaper Preservation through Collaboration and...
Ana Krahmer and Mark Phillips have self-archived "Laying the Groundwork for Newspaper Preservation through Collaboration and Communication: The Texas Digital Newspaper Program" in the UNT Digital...
View Article"A Perspective on the Merits of the Antitrust Objections to the Failed Google...
Pamela Samuelson has published "A Perspective on the Merits of the Antitrust Objections to the Failed Google Books Settlement" in the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology Occasional Paper Series....
View ArticleSubcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Scope of Fair...
The House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet held a hearing on the scope of fair use on 1/28/14 (video). Here's an excerpt from "Fair Use Takes Center Stage at Judiciary...
View ArticleCopyright Office Seeks Comments on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization
The US Copyright Office is seeking comments on orphan works and mass digitization and it will hold public roundtable discussions on these topics. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: The United...
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