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This past May, I posted on a digital book scanning project underway at the Stanford University Libraries. As a follow-up, the USA Today reports on automated digital scanning hardware and software from Kirtas Technologies, Inc. that facilitates the “digitization of massive document libraries, fully automating the scanning of bound documents (emphasis added) at a capture …
Google Print (BETA) FAQ: “During this trial, publishers’ content is hosted by Google and is ranked in our search results according to the same technology we use to evaluate websites. On Google Print pages, we provide links to some popular book sellers that may offer the full versions of these publications for sale. Book seller …
A December 12 ZDNet article provides a link to the Copyright Board of Canada decision, the press release and a fact sheet.
Leading Publishers Sue Document Deliverers For Copyright Infringement; New Lawsuits Reflect Growing Infringement of Digital Content: The Copyright Clearance Center is coordinating lawsuits by five prominent publishers (including Elsevier Inc. and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.), against document retrieval companies Medical Review Services and LMS Information Services for unauthorized duplication and sale of copyrighted materials …
The RIAA filed 41 new lawsuits in a continued effort to stem the tide of music file-sharing, and indicated that previous lawsuits have resulted in settlements that average $3,000.
The Third Draft Agreement (November 21, 2003) of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) includes an extensive section on Intellectual Property Rights. According to the advocacy group IP Justice, the “expanded copyrights…endanger civil liberties and competition….and one of the most controversial sections of the IPR chapter requires countries to outlaw the circumvention of …
As a follow-up to my posting, E-Voting Machine Co. Docs. on Product Flaws Published on Web, this evening an EFF press release announced that Judge Jeremy Foley, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California scheduled a meeting of the parties, via telephone conference, for December 1. This action follows Diebold’s decision to withdraw the cease …
When Free Isn’t Really Free: Free applications may include adware, spyware, virusus, and result in copyright infringement lawsuits (music downloading). The article refers to the CDT report on spyware issued last week, about which I posted here and legislation to protect consumers against the collection of personal data via spyware, about which I posted here.
Judge Jeremy Foley, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, will rule in the next several weeks on whether internal documents stolen from Diebold Inc., and posted to or linked from a range of personal, non-profit and university websites, must be removed due to copyright infringement. See my November 14 posting which details relevant information …
An EFF advisory addresses a legal challenge (initiated by two Swarthmore students, an ISP and a privacy group) in response to cease and desist orders issued by an electronic voting machine manufacturer. These orders were in response to the publication on the web of some 13,000 pages of internal corporate documents which included extensive discussion …
Artists’ Rights and Theft Prevention Act (ART Act). Statement by Senator Dianne Feinstein On Cornyn-Feinstein Legislation to Crack Down on Video and Audio Piracy, November 13, 2003. A llink to the draft copy of the bill, to “provide for criminal and civil penalties for unauthorized distribution of commercial prerelease works, to provide criminal penalties for …
Digital Preservation and Copyright, by Peter B. Hirtle. The author focuses on allowable methods for libraries to copy and archive electronic data as provided by 17 USC, Sections 117 and 108, as well as the DMCA.
