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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 Associated Press names 9 winners of Gramling Award for excellence: “The honorees include a video journalist who established a new bureau in North Korea, a department head whose team takes the lead in using research in everything from urgent breaking news to long-term investigative work, and editors who expanded AP’s medical and science offerings …
Follow-up to my June 13, 2006 posting, New Searchable Database of Congressional and NJ Legislative Documents, this August 29, 2006 announcement from Rutgers: “The Law Library at the Rutgers-Camden law school now offers [free] the decisions of the New Jersey Supreme Court’s Attorney Disciplinary Review Board from December, 1998 onward. These decisions are online here.”
Center for History and New Media, George Mason University: “The Hurricane Digital Memory Bank uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the stories and digital record of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. George Mason Universitys Center for History and New Media and the University of New Orleans, in partnership with the Smithsonian Institutions National Museum …
“25 August 2006 – The European Commission adopted on 24 August 2006 a Recommendation on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation (PDF). The Recommendation aims at bringing out the full economic and cultural potential of Europes cultural and scientific heritage through the Internet. It is part of the Commission’s strategy …
The State of the Law Library Blogosphere, by Bonnie Shucha Reference From Coast to Coast: Are They Finding What They Need? by Jan Bissett and Margi Heinen
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
Press release: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is moving ahead this summer to shut down libraries, end public access to research materials and box up unique collections on the assumption that Congress will not reverse President Bush’s proposed budget reductions, according to agency documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). At the …
New York Times Editorial today: Where the Books Are. See also this related posting, NY Public Library Project to Update Access to Reference Works.
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 …
“The UNODC legal library is a unique source of the legislation adopted by States and territories around the world to put into effect the international drug control conventions. The library contains laws and regulations dating back to 1948 and is updated regularly with new laws adopted by Member States and other States. With the adoption …
