MORE 'HATHITRUST' POSTS
Authors Guild v. HathiTrust Full Text of Answers Response Filing (25 pages; PDF via The Public Index) Document is dated December 3, 2011. Professor James Grimmelmann has several tweets (dated December 3, 2011) with facts and analysis. He notes that an order has been entered that says that an AG v. HT trial is set […]
New: HathiTrust Update: October 2011 Now Online
| Data Files, Funding, Libraries, Publishing, Reports, Resources
Direct to October 2011 Update ||| PDF Version Here are a Few (ONLY A FEW) Highlights From the Update: “Maliaca Oxnam, an Associate Librarian from the University of Arizona, and current Chair of the Technical Report Archive and Image Library (http://www.technicalreports.org), has engaged a sabbatical research project with the goal of improving access to government […]
From EDUCAUSE: In this web seminar, Jonathan Band, a legal consultant and frequent author on intellectual property issues, will provide an overview of the case to date, and James Grimmelmann, an associate professor at New York Law School, will discuss the legal questions on which the Authors Guild v. HathiTrust lawsuit will turn, as well […]
University of Miami Joins HathiTrust & Slide Decks from Two Recent HT Presentations
| Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Public Libraries
New HT Member From the University of Miami Libraries Web Site: The University of Miami has become a member of HathiTrust (www.hathitrust.org), a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating in an extraordinary digital library initiative to preserve and provide access to the published record in digital form. William Walker, Dean and University Librarian, […]
The mobile search, find, and and view full image results site is online as a “soft release” (looking for bugs and other issues). At the present time you’ll need to use the m.hathitrust.org URL to use the database. Eventually, users will be redirected to the mobile site when accessing using a mobile browser. The site […]
From a Library Journal Article by Michael Kelley: The Authors Guild filed an amended complaint on Thursday, October 6, in its suit against HathiTrust, the University of Michigan, and four other universities which alleges the universities engaged “in one of the largest copyright infringements in history.” A number of additional authors and authors groups have […]
“HathiTrust and the Litigation Path” by Kenneth Crews, Columbia Copyright Advisory Office From the Intro: “When parties file a lawsuit and send their case into the court system, predictions are almost always wrong, if not reckless. Yet litigation is a matter of strategic planning that demands predictions. Predictions are also a tempting parlor game, so […]
U. of Michigan Publishes Q&A About Digitization Efforts
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Preservation, News
From the U. of Michigan Public Affairs Office. Eleven questions and answers about book digitization at the school focusing on orphan works. Here’s one question and answer. Q: Has the lawsuit altered the university’s digitization efforts or the Orphan Works Project? A: No. We continue to digitize the works in our collection, and we continue […]
U-M's Paul Courant on AG Lawsuit: "We Have Not Changed Our Plans or Activities in Any Way"
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Reports
From the University of Michigan Record (a Publication from the Office of the Vice President of Communications): The U-M Library continues to operate its nascent Orphan Works Project “because we remain as certain as ever that our proposed uses of orphan works are lawful and important to the future of scholarship and the libraries that […]
New by Dan Cohen: "The Fight Over the Future of Digital Books"
| Awards, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Publishing
“The Fight Over the Future of Digital Books” is a new article on the The Atlantic web site, by Dan Cohen, winner of the 2011 Kilgour Award from OCLC and director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University (the people who bring us Zotero and many other cool […]
