MORE 'INTELLECTUAL-PROPERTY' POSTS
Video: "An Interview with Robert Darnton on the Digital Public Library of America"
Academic Libraries, Interviews, Libraries, News, Open Access, Profiles, Public Libraries
|Randall Stephens, Professor of History at Eastern Nazarene College and Editor of The Historical Society blog talks with the Director of the Harvard University Library, Professor Robert Darnton, about the Digital Public Library of America that’s in the currently in the planning stages. The video interview (in two segments) runs about 20 minutes. In a […]
Archives: European Film Gateway Project Publishes Report About Copyright Issues
Archives and Special Collections, Management and Leadership, News
|From an EU Screen Blog Post: In order to bring archival materials held in film archives online and giving access to them, rights clearing is a central topic in the framework of the EFG project. EYE Film Institute, one of EFG’s project partners, has established a report on Guidelines for Copyright Clearance and IPR Management. […]
How public is public data? With Public Engines v. ReportSee, new access standards could emerge A recently settled federal court case out in Utah may affect the way news organizations and citizens get access to crime data. Public Engines, a company that publishes crime statistics for law enforcement agencies, sued ReportSee, which provides similar services, […]
From a CNET Article by David Carnoy: Several months ago I set up a Google alert for my book, “Knife Music,” to keep abreast of anything anybody was saying–good or bad–about the thing. Over the months I’ve received news of the occasional blog post and tweets, but more recently I popped open an alert to […]
Authors from University of Illinois and Stanford Univerysity: Siddharth Taduri, Hang Yu, Gloria Lau, Kincho Law and Jay P. Kesan From the Abstract (via SSRN): In recent years, there has been a massive growth of regulatory and related information available online. This information is distributed across many different domains creating a problem for accessing and […]
Now Online: The January/February 2011 Edition of CLIR Issues
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
|Articles In The Latest Issue (no. 79) Include: Extent of Orphan Works Examined in New Publication Series CLIR has launched a new publication series, “Ruminations.” The series will feature short research papers and essays that bring new perspective to issues related to planning for and managing organizational and institutional change in the evolving digital environment […]
"Special 301 Report: Publishers Submit Annual Review of Global Intellectual Property Protection to USTR"
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Publishing
|From an Association of American Publisher’s Announcement: “The Association of American Publishers (AAP), through the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), today submitted its annual Special 301 Report to the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). The report details issues related to intellectual property rights protection and market access in a number of foreign […]
"Students Scan Textbooks to Skirt Cost"
Academic Libraries, Digital Preservation, Libraries, School Libraries
|From a Daily Oklahoman Article (University of Oklahoma): Bizzell Memorial Library owns two scanners — called Knowledge Imaging Centers — that allow students to scan pages and save them directly to an external hard drive, costing the user nothing. Some have been abusing the privilege though, scanning whole chapters and textbooks instead of buying them. […]
The full text of the 652 page book can be downloaded as a PDF file for free. Title: Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property Edited by Gaëlle Krikorian and Amy Kapczynski From a Blurb on the MIT Press Web Site: At the end of the twentieth century, intellectual property rights collided with […]
From a TechCrunch Post: Trademarkia scans of all the marks and returns results in a visual grid that’s a lot easier to make sense of than the USPTO’s trademark database. You can search by company, theme, product category, or even filing attorney. Companies can also file a trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office […]