Category «Copyright»

Commentary on IP Battle Over Google Print

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. …

Subjects: Copyright, Intellectual Property, Legal Research, Libraries, Search Engines

Google CEO Responds to Controversy Over 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, …

Subjects: Copyright, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

New on LLRX.com

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 – …

Subjects: Copyright, Courts, Digital Rights, E-Government, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Libraries, Search Engines

Documenting Copyright for Digital Materials

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. …

Subjects: Copyright, Digital Rights, Intellectual Property, Libraries

LC Will Conduct Proceedings on DMCA Rule Circumvention

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 …

Subjects: Copyright, Digital Rights, Legal Research, Libraries

New Book of Essays by Leading Canadian Copyright Experts

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]

Subjects: Copyright, Legal Research

Open Content Alliance Launched With Support From Yahoo and Internet Archive

“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 …

Subjects: Copyright, Internet, Libraries