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Library Copyright Alliance Comments on Authors Guild/HathiTrust Lawsuit
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Preservation, Publishing
|Here’s the Full Text: We are deeply disappointed by the Authors Guild’s decision to file a lawsuit, Authors Guild, Inc. et al. v. HathiTrust et al., against HathiTrust and its research library partners. The case has no merit, and completely disregards the rights of libraries and their users under the law, especially fair use. The […]
From the Authors Guild Blog: About two minutes of googling turned up a professor emeritus of one of the HathiTrust “orphan works” candidates. He lives in suburban Maryland. His second book sold a reported one million copies, and he’s listed in IMDb (two of his books were turned into movies: one starred Elvis Presley, the […]
From Coyle’s InFormation: In its suit against HathiTrust the three authors guilds claim that there are digitized copies millions of copyrighted books in HathiTrust, and that these should be removed from the database and stored in escrow off-line. A relevant question is: who do the authors guilds represent, and how many of those books belong […]
Analysis: Chronicle of Higher Education's Jennifer Howard on Orphan Works Lawsuit
Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Preservation
|Direct to Full Text: In Authors’ Suit Against Libraries, an Attempt to Wrest Back Some Control Over Digitized Works (via Chronicle of Higher Education) by Jennifer Howard All the defendants participate both in HathiTrust and the Orphan Works Project. HathiTrust digital repository and the University of Michigan say the lawsuit will not derail their efforts. […]
New: Resource Packet on Orphan Works: Legal and Policy Issues for Research Libraries
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News
|Prepared by Prudence Adler (ARL), Jonathan Band (policybandwidth), Brandon Butler (ARL) Direct to Full Text (17 pages; PDF) From the Intro: The resource packet on legal and policy issues concerning orphan works provides general information concerning orphan works, the University of Michigan’s Orphan Works Project, an FAQ, and a legal memorandum by Jonathan Band, policybandwidth, […]
A must read for anyone interested in the lawsuit filed yesterday. Professor Grimmelmann (New York Law School) provides background, key facts, and then analysis. Here’s one paragraph from the blog post: The libraries had to have seen this coming. I’m sure that their general counsel have been stockpiling memos on the scans since 2004, and […]
Authors Guild, Australian Society of Authors, Quebec Writers Union Sue Five U.S. Universities
Academic Libraries, Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Open Access
|From an Authors Guild News Release: The Authors Guild, the Australian Society of Authors, the Union Des Écrivaines et des Écrivains Québécois (UNEQ), and eight individual authors have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in federal court against HathiTrust, the University of Michigan, the University of California, the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, and Cornell University. […]
Publishers & British Library Agree Framework Licence Agreement For Document Delivery Outside of UK to Non-Commercial Researchers
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
|From the British Library: The British Library and the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM) have agreed a framework licence agreement to be entered into directly between individual publishers and the British Library. It governs the supply of copies of articles from the British Library’s Document Supply Service to non-commercial end users […]
Google Book-Scanning Lawsuit Is Dropped by French Publishers
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Publishing
|From Bloomberg: Three French publishers dropped a 9.8 million-euro ($13.8 million) lawsuit against Google Inc. (GOOG) over books scanned by the search-engine company. Editions Albin Michel SA, Editions Gallimard SA and Flammarion made the decision in order to resume negotiations to reach a deal on scanning copyright-protected works for Google’s digital library. “Google suspended negotiations” […]
From Inside Higher Ed: More than a dozen Canadian universities — including heavyweights such as the University of British Columbia, the University of Calgary and York University — have said they will not renew their agreements with Access Copyright, a government-created nonprofit that sells licenses to its library of copyright-cleared content. The idea of the […]