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Leggo My Ego, GooglePrint and the other culture war, by Tim Wu. Related links on Google Print program See also: The Google Print Controversy: A Bibliography: “This bibliography presents selected electronic works about Google Print that are freely available on the Internet. It has a special focus on the legal issues associated with this project. …
Indexing Versus Caching & How Google Print Doesn’t Reprint Related links on the Google Print program
In following recent postings on opposition to the Google Print Program by publishers and authors, see these corporate responses, from the Official Google Blog: Why we believe in Google Print: “We’ve been asked recently why we’re so determined to pursue Google Print, even though it has drawn industry opposition in the form of two lawsuits, …
Reinventing the Empire of Secrecy: An Agenda for the First DNI, by Lee S. Strickland The Authors Guild v. The Google Print Library Project, by Jonathan Band Researching U.S. Treaties and Agreements – Revised and Updated, by Marci Hoffman Criminal Justice Ethics Sources on the Internet, by Ken Strutin In the Wake of Katrina …
Reuters via CNN International: Publishers throw book at Google Related documents and links: Complaint (FindLaw, 36 pages, PDF), McGraw-Hill Companies, et al. v. Google, Inc., October 19, 2005. beSpacific postings on Google Print Program The Authors Guild v. The Google Print Library Project
From WSJ free features today, Photo Agencies Scour the Web For Copyright Violations.
In following the continuing saga of the Google Print Program, from WSJ’s Free Features today: Authors’ Second Chance “Google’s ambitious plan to put books online could give authors and publishers a new lease on life. But Google Print’s critics say the ambitious plan runs afoul of copyright laws.”
Descriptive metadata for copyright Status, by Karen Coyl: “The need to express the intellectual property rights of digital materials has focused on access and usage permissions which must be granted by the rights holder. A key set of permissions not acknowledged by these rights expressions is inherent in the legal copyright status of the item. …
Federal Register, October 3, 2005: Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies. Copyright Office, Library of Congress. Notice of inquiry. “The Copyright Office of the Library of Congress is preparing to conduct proceedings in accordance with section 1201(a)(1) of the Copyright Act, which was added by the Digital Millennium …
Edited by Michael Geist, In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law, “…reviews international copyright norms, assesses dozens of specific Bill C-60 provisions, and identifies potential future copyright reform initiatives.” This book was published under a Creative Commons license, permitting legal downloads for personal use [Slaw.ca, and Connie Crosby]
“The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content. Content in the OCA archive will be accessible soon through this website and through Yahoo!. The OCA will …
Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on “Protecting Copyright and Innovation in a Post-Grokster World. Grokster is a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing program that enables users to share any digital file including images, audio, video, reports and documents. September 28, 2005.” Testimony and Member Statements
