MORE 'INTELLECTUAL-PROPERTY' POSTS
1. “The Court of Appeal in London has today upheld a ruling that headlines and web links taken from newspapers websites are protected by copyright.” (via Managing IP) Case: NLA v Meltwater & PRCA Full Text of Ruling (via BAILII) “Winners And Losers In The News Aggregator Copyright Case” (via paidContent) “PRCA and Meltwater are […]
Company Names Matching in the Large Patents Dataset This paper addresses the name matching (duplicate detection) problem in the US patent dataset. It contains more then 400K unique company names spellings. In order to solve the matching problem we choose appropriate string similarity measure and clustering approach and estimate their parameters. Finally we apply them […]
From Wired: Just two days after activist hacker Aaron Swartz was charged with hacking for downloading too many academic articles, a giant collection of articles from the same service has been posted to the notorious file sharing search engine, The Pirate Bay. The documents are allegedly 18,952 scientific articles from the Philosophical Transactions of the […]
Publishers Consider a Digital World
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Jobs, Preservation, Publishing
|Publishers Consider a Digital World The publishing industry is facing a digital dilemma. In a world where it’s possible to make content available electronically at a fraction of the cost of printing hard copies, publishers are struggling with how to balance wide access to their content with the bottom line. “It’s a moral balancing act,” […]
Now Available: July/August 2011 Issue of C&RL News
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News
|The June/July 2011 issue of C&RL News (72.7) was posted online today. Features Articles Include: Zombie attacks: How they can contribute to the success of your library by Matt Upson and C. Michael Hall Full Text Shopping carts and student employees: How student committees can bring innovative ideas to academic libraries by Sara D. Smith […]
Academic Publisher Steps Up Efforts to Stop Piracy of Its Online Products Now on sale in some online marketplaces: cheap, illegal access to SciFinder, an extensive database of scholarly articles and information about chemical compounds run by a division of the American Chemical Society. The sellers are pirates, hawking stolen or leaked SciFinder account information […]
Kudos to the always experimental and forward thinking O’Reilly for going DRM-Free. Will other publishers follow O’Reilly’s lead? From OverDrive: OverDrive is announcing that booksellers, libraries, and schools in its global network will soon have access to DRM-free eBook titles from O’Reilly Media. The publisher’s entire eBook catalog will be available to OverDrive’s channel partners, […]
STM (Intl. Assoc. of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers) Sets Out Guiding Principles For Document Delivery
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Journal Articles, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|From an STM News Release (PDF): Document delivery of individual journal articles is a supplemental tool used primarily by individuals and organizations to fill small information gaps in their STM content. It is only one of the many ways by which STM journal literature can be accessed and it can best be understood as a […]
Commission sets out “blueprint” for Intellectual Property Rights to boost creativity and innovation Intellectual property rights (IPR), which comprise patents, trademarks, designs and geographical indications, as well as copyright (authors’ rights) and rights related to copyright (for performers, producers and broadcasters), have been around for centuries. Often, without our even realising, they affect our daily […]
Direct to Map (via OWNI.eu) The map contains info about: + Intellectual Property + Data Retention + Mobile + Filtering + ACTA + Copyright Sources are listed in the lower right corner. Link is to English Language Version of Map Hat Tip and Thanks: @OpenNet