"Controlled digital lending"

AT&T's action against alleged pirates comes after purchase of Time Warner.

by guest blogger Tyler Ochoa On October 11, 2018, President Trump signed into law H.R. 1551, the Orrin G. Hatch-Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act, which became Public Law 115-364, 132 Stat. 3676.  The Act contains three titles pertaining to copyright law.  Title...

But the bullshit I’m interested in right now is that populating Australia’s copyright reform debates.  A great deal of this bullshit is motivated by good intentions – most notably, the desire to sustain writers’ incomes in an era of precipitous, disastrous decline.

Orrin G. Hatch—Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act

When we think about people seeking relief for infringement of their intellectual property rights pursuant to copyright and trademark laws, we typically assume t

This paper is about how libraries can legally lend digital copies of books. It explains the legal and policy rationales for the process— “controlled digital lending”— as well as a variety of risk factors and practical considerations that can guide libraries seeking to implement such lending.  We write this paper in support of the Position Statement on Controlled Digital Lending,  a document endorsed by many libraries, librarians, and legal experts.  Our goal is to help libraries and their lawyers become more comfortable with the concept by more fully explaining the legal rationale for controlled digital lending, as well as situations in which this rationale is the strongest.

Today the EU passed Articles 11 and 13 of its new Copyright Directive in a 438 to 226 vote. This has, rightly, been widely painted

Op-ed: How one German professor had a bad experience with overly broad upload filters.

Jim Parker, Coordinator of the PLR International Networks, explains what the public lending right (PLR) is and why it is important for authors.

January 1, 2019 will be the first time in twenty years that works in the United States will once again join the public domain through copyright expiration. A growing public domain means more access

Sound and Vision is working on making its archive material, such as radio, television, photos and film, available online. The Sound and Vision archive contains archive material from way back, represents a treasure of historical information and is huge. This creates a promising situation to make arch

Can't copyright a 3d model of a real object; insufficient originality. Case from 2008.

As the use of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to spread, we have seen an increase in examples of AI systems reflecting or exacerbating societal bias, fro