Unintended Consequences: Seven Years under the DMCA
Electronic Frontier Foundation: Unintended Consequences: Seven Years under the DMCA, April, 2006. This document is version 4. (15 pages, PDF, and HTML version)
Category «Copyright»
WIPO Marks E-Renewal System
Madrid System for the International Registration of Marks: WIPO Marks E-Renewal System
CATO Study Challenges Courts’ Role in Digital Rights Management
Circumventing Competition: The Perverse Consequences of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (PDF, 28 pages), by Timothy B. Lee “The courts have a proven track record of fashioning balanced remedies for the copyright challenges created by new technologies. But when Congress passed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in 1998, it cut the courts out of this …
Copyright Case Against Google Dismissed
WSJ free feature – Google Wins Copyright Battle; Archiving Issue Is Still Unclear: “A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit accusing Google Inc. of wrongful conduct, including copyright infringement and defamation, providing the latest court opinion to weigh in on the contentious area of search engines and copyright.”
House Judiciary Cmte. Hearing on Orphan Works
Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property Oversight Hearing on “The Report on Orphan Works by the Copyright Office.” Witness statements (in PDF): Jule Sigall, Associate Register for Policy and International Affairs, Copyright Office of the United States, The Library of Congress Allan Adler, Vice President for Legal and Government Affairs, Association of American …
EU Plans Digital Library Portal Launch By 2010
EU press release: “European Commission steps up efforts to put Europe’s memory on the Web via a “European Digital Library” – At least six million books, documents and other cultural works will be made available to anyone with a Web connection through the European Digital Library over the next five years.” The European Digital Library: …
Tremendous Tech Challenges Presented By Digitizing Library Collections
How to Digitize a Million Books – Needed: scanning software for 430 languages and a system to organize the next big leap in the information age. Related postings on Google Book Search
Recent Decision on Google’s Use of Thumbnails May Impact Book Scan Project
New York times: Ruling May Undercut Google in Fight Over Its Book Scans See also this related commentary: The Google Library Project: The Copyright Debate, by Jonathan Band The Authors Guild v. The Google Print Library Project, by Jonathan Band
New on LLRX.com
BMG Music v. Gonzalez, Matt Schruers and Jonathan Band Job Swaps and Library Exchanges, by Katie Thomas Got Competitive Intelligence? Tips, Tools, Techniques for the Savvy Marketer (PPT), by Donna Cavallini and Sabrina I. Pacifici The Government Domain: FirstGov Becomes First in Government Search, by Peggy Garvin E-Discovery Update – by Fios Inc. – Defining …
USTR to Strengthen Enforcement in Readjustment of U.S.-China Trade Policy
Press release: “Today, U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman unveiled the results of a top-to-bottom review of U.S.-China Trade Policy at a news conference. The report, U.S. – China Trade Relations: Entering a New Phase of Greater Accountability and Enforcement (29 pages, PDF), is the first comprehensive statement of U.S. trade policy towards China since it …
Case Study of CD Disk Protection System That Triggered Class Action Suit
Lessons from the Sony CD DRM Episode, February 14, 2006 (27 pages, PDF), by J. Alex Halderman and Edward W. Felton.
Significance of Library Digitization Project Described by Univ. President
John Batelle posted the text (PDF) of University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman’s keynote address at the Association of American Publishers Conference, February 6. She defended her university’s participation in the Google Library Project as well as the overall value and importance of library digitization programs in general. Related news: A leading US academic …
