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Press release: “…the Department of Commerce’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released a report that concludes that the distributors of five popular filesharing programs repeatedly deployed features that they knew or should have known could cause users to share files inadvertently. The report, Filesharing Programs and “Technological Features to Induce Users to Share, …
RIAA press release: “The recording industry today launched a new and strengthened campus anti-piracy initiative that significantly expands the scope and volume of its deterrent efforts while offering a new process that gives students the opportunity to avoid a formal lawsuit by settling prior to a litigation being filed. The Recording Industry Association of America …
Press release: “U.S. Representatives Rick Boucher (D-VA) and John Doolittle (R-CA), today introduced the Freedom And Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship Act of 2007 (FAIR USE Act) to protect the fair use rights of users of copyrighted material and thereby enable consumers of digital media to use it in ways that enhance their personal convenience. The …
Press Release: “The Fair Use Project of the Center for Internet & Society at Stanford Law School announced that it has teamed with Media/Professional Insurance and leading intellectual property attorney Michael Donaldson to provide critical support for documentary filmmakers who rely on the fair use of copyrighted material in their films…In order to help solve …
Follow up to previous postings on a legal dispute between a group of Belgian newspaper sites and Google over removal of copyrighted materials from the search engine index, news today that the court reaffirmed its decision against Google. Google Official Blog: “Here’s a quick summary of the case: Copiepresse represents a number of newspapers in …
Google’s Moon Shot, by JEFFREY TOOBIN – The quest for the universal library. New Yorker, Posted 2007-01-29 “Every weekday, a truck pulls up to the Cecil H. Green Library, on the campus of Stanford University, and collects at least a thousand books, which are taken to an undisclosed location and scanned, page by page, into …
“This morning, February 6, 2007, ALA President Leslie Burger testified before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, chaired by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), concerning the recent closure of several libraries in the Environmental and Protection Agency (EPA). Link to Burgers full testimony. “As one recently retired EPA librarian described it,” Burger said in …
“Counterfeiting and piracy costs U.S. companies between $200-$250 billion a year and roughly 750,000 jobs to date. Nearly all industries are being affected, from apparel and footwear, high-tech industrial goods, medicines, autos and auto parts, food and beverages, and cosmetics to copyrighted works, including entertainment and business software, movies, music, and books. The U.S. Chamber …
Stanford Center for Internet and Society: ” Kahle v. Gonzales – In this case, two archives ask the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to hold that statutes that extended copyright terms unconditionally the Copyright Renewal Act and the Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) are unconstitutional under the Free Speech Clause …
Press release: “The Internet Archive Receives Grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to Digitize and Provide Open Online Access to Historical Collections from Five Major Libraries…The Sloan Foundation is proud to support the digitization of these high-value collections from five of the nation’s leading cultural institutions and to ensure that these materials will always be …
The following articles are available in the December 2006 issue of LLRX.com: Bloggers Beware: Debunking Nine Copyright Myths of the Online World – Updated, by Kathy Biehl Criminal Justice Resources – Criminal Justice Blogs, by Ken Strutin A Compilation of State Lawyer Licensing Databases, by Trevor Rosen and Andrew Zimmerman Deep Web Research Research 2007, …
Live Search’s WebLog: “The U.S. beta launch of Live Search Books is a big step forward in advancing the way people discover information through the integration of content that has been “off-limits” to the traditional Search experience, until now. This release makes tens of thousands of out-of-copyright books available from our library scanning initiative, including …
