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Wyden, Issa Release Alternate Anti-Piracy Bill, But Hollywood’s Not Biting (via The Wrap) With support for current proposed anti-piracy legislation waning, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and U.S. Congressman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) released on Thursday a compromise proposal that would likely receive the endorsement of the tech community. The proposed legislation — which targets advertisers […]
Public Domain Books: Open Book Alliance Works to Pry Open Google’s Closed Books
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|From an Open Book Alliance Blog Post: Everyone knows Google has scanned tens of millions of books, including over 3 million books in the public domain, and that it got most of these books from many different libraries, public and private. What most don’t know is that Google forces those libraries to use technology to […]
Conclusions of 23rd Session of WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights
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|From a Conclusions Document Posted on Knowledge Ecology International: Limitations and Exceptions: Libraries and archives 1. The Committee took note of three new documents, namely “the Case for a Treaty on Exceptions and Limitations for Libraries and Archives: Background Paper by IFLA, ICA, EIFL and INNOVARTE, presented by Brazil (document SCCR/23/3); “Objectives and Principles for […]
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 […]
Libraries: Let Profs and Film Students Continue to Rip DVDs
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|From an ARL Policy Notes Post by Brandon Butler: In a rich submission to the Copyright Office [PDF] on behalf of the Library Copyright Alliance, Jonathan Band asks the Office to renew its rule allowing college professors and film and media students to decrypt DVDs for educational uses. The submission is part of the administration […]
New Blog From the Library of Congress: "Copyright Matters: Digitization and Public Access"
Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|News from the U.S. Copyright Office/Library of Congress. About the New Copyright Matters: Digitization and Public Access Blog: [The blog is to support] The Copyright Digitization and Public Access project, a long term effort to convert non-digital records of copyright ownership and transfers and assignment of rights and to make them widely available online via the […]
Preprint: Copyright Policy and Practice in Electronic Reserves Among ARL Libraries
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|Title: Copyright Policy and Practice in Electronic Reserves Among ARL Libraries (28 pages; PDF) Authors: David R. Hansen (U. of North Carolina) William. M. Cross (North Carolina State U.) Phillip M. Edwards (Virginia Commonwealth U.) Preprint Accepted: November 9, 2011 Scheduled for Publication: November 2012 Abstract: This paper presents the results of a survey of […]
WIPO Meeting: SCCR Releases Draft Compilation on Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries and Archives
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|UPDATE: Written comments on limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives until end of February 2012. Details here. From the International Federation of Library Associations: The marathon 23rd session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights continued at WIPO over the weekend. Discussion on Saturday concerned a proposed WIPO Draft Treaty for the […]
WIPO Meeting: European Versus American Interpretations of Orphan Works
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|UPDATE: WIPO: Great progress at library days (via IFLA; November 24, 2011) From the Knowledge Economy Blog: The WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) is now discussing the topic of orphan works in deliberations on limitations and exceptions for libraries and archives. The US has a broader view of what constitutes an […]
New: HathiTrust Update: October 2011 Now Online
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|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 […]