MORE 'HATHITRUST' POSTS
From the Cornell Daily Sun: “It is not true that the University of Michigan has terminated the orphan work project. We have delayed making orphan works available as we revise our process in light of what we have learned in the past several weeks — which is that the process had made too many mistakes,” […]
@BlankTextField and @grimmelm point out that the Authors Guild v. HathiTrust (AGvHT) docket shows that last Friday Judge Denny Chin said that the orphan works case is NOT related to the Google Books Settlement case. The AGvHT case has been assigned to Judge Harold Baer. You can view the complete AGvHT docket here (with linked documents). […]
From the Authors Guild Blog: Michigan pledged to re-examine its procedures and create a “more robust, transparent, and fully documented process” and continue the project: “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 support it.” In the […]
From Publisher’s Weekly by Andrew Albanese: Following the filing of a lawsuit over its scanning and orphan works initiative, HathiTrust this morning said it would suspend indefinitely its plan to release a set of 140 orphan works until its processes for determining copyright status are improved. The move comes after Authors Guild members this week […]
1. Statement from Paul Courant, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries “As a research university, we are a community of authors, and we have deep respect for copyright law and for the rights and interests of authors. Our digitization efforts simply reflect the library’s continuing legacy of prudence in curating the world’s scholarly and cultural […]
From The Laboratorium Blog: In a series of blog posts yesterday whose tone can only be described as “gleeful,” the Authors Guild has been showing that specific books aren’t orphans. So far, they’ve found copyright owners or literary agents for J.R. Salamanca’s The Lost Country, Albert Bandura’s Adolescent Aggression, and James Gould Cozzens’s Confusion. They […]
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. […]
