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Belgium Orders Google to Remove News Items or Pay Huge Fine: “A Brussels court has ordered internet giant Google to pay 1 million euro a day if it does not remove all news articles and pictures from French and German language newspapers on its news site, Belgian media reported on Monday.” Belgian court brings Google …
Mazzone, Jason, “Copyfraud”. Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 40 Available at SSRN [via Public Knowledge] “Copyfraud is everywhere. False copyright notices appear on modern reprints of Shakespeare’s plays, Beethoven’s piano scores, greeting card versions of Monet’s Water Lilies, and even the U.S. Constitution. Archives claim blanket copyright in everything in their collections. Vendors …
Google press release: “Starting today, readers can find new, and free, downloadable versions of some of the world’s greatest books on Google Book Search. Working with our library partners, we’re expanding access to books that are out of copyright and have become public domain material. Users can search and read these books on Google Book …
The Chronicle of Higher Education obtained a copy of the 13 page agreement between Google, Inc. and the Regents of the University of California that details the scope of the digitization project, as well as copyright and ownership issues. Related postings on the Google Book Search Project
Washington Post Op-ed today: The Books Google Could Open, by Richard Ekman, president of the Council of Independent Colleges. eWeek.com: Publishers Fight Back Against Google with New Book Search Service: “Publisher HarperCollins and Austin, Texas-based LibreDigital announced today a hosted service called LibreDigital Warehouse that will give publishers and booksellers the ability to deliver searchable …
Can Our Culture Be Saved? The Future of Digital Archiving, by Diane Leeheer Zimmerman, New York University – School of Law, July 25, 2006 “This article steps behind the Google Library controversy to examine in depth what the enormous public benefits that would flow from allowing a broad right of digitization for preservation purposes, and …
Press release: The University of California libraries today (August 9, 2006) announced their partnership with Google to digitize books from the libraries’ collections. UC becomes the latest partner in the Google Books Library Project, which was launched in December 2004 to digitize books drawn from the libraries of the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford …
Matwyshyn, Andrea M., “Technoconsen(t)sus” (May 2006). Posted July 19, 2006 [Link to download] “Law is contributing to an information security paradox. Consumers are regularly consenting to the installation of computer code that makes them more vulnerable to harms such as identity theft. In particular, digital rights management technology accompanying digital music has recently left a …
Federal Judicial Center: Copyright Law, Second Edition, 2006, 241 pages. “This monograph provides a concise overview of the law of copyright from its origins in the English common law through recent Supreme Court cases, designed to provide judges with a grounding in the essential concepts and statutory and case law in this specialized area. The …
Press release, June 14, 2006: Google Launches Shakespeare Website. See Google Search Beta’s complete plays of Shakespeare Related news: From Inside Google Book Search blog: “Some print versions of Shakespeare’s plays may not be in the public domain everywhere in the world. In cases where the copyright status is in question, we protect the publisher …
New York Times Magazine, Scan This Book!, by Kevin Kelly, “senior maverick” at Wired magazine and author of Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World.
Mass Digitization: Implications for Information Policy , May 9, 2006 (NCLIS).
