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Museums face steady demand for images of artworks from their collections, and they typically provide a service of making and delivering high-resolution images o
it's baaaaaaaaaaaack.
Effects of the SOPA/PIPA/ACTA losses on treaty-based copyright negotiations: highly salutary!
"Based on the available evidence, the fair use doctrine is more rational and consistent than is commonly assumed."
Sita Sings the Blues creator Nina Paley explains her intellectual disobedience stance on copyright and notes that current copyright laws are completely out of touch with human behavior.
With the Orphan Works conference taking place last week, there is an awful lot to blog about. I will address the conference in the next couple of postings (unless there is a GSU decision), but for now I want to look at another round in the John Wiley v. Kirtsaeng case. Lest we have forgotten, … Continue reading First sale goes to the Supreme Court, again →
Good, bad, and ugly clauses in intellectual-property agreements.
Press director talks about clearing image rights for books.
What if you organize a pro-copyright demonstration, but nobody wants to attend? Well, then you can always hire some students. This is exactly what the
The Supremes have agreed to hear a case that has some troubling implications for libraries. Kirtsaeng v. Wiley is not just about textbooks. It’s about whether any work that is copyrighted and
Who should control the Internet—and how? As the international treaty governing the Web comes up for renegotiation, Michael Joseph Gross explores the many battlefields in a war that will change cyberspace. Illustration by Stephen Doyle.
Righthaven loses again.
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is one part of a broad, decades-long …
Western Ontario and UToronto: copyright cops for the big pigs!
The description above may come as a surprise to people who never sampled the wares of this fantastic resource. But the description, made by someone named Samir Huseyn on Twitter earlier today, is a fitting one. It was likely nowhere near as extensive as the library of Alexandria, but the last time I visited, it had thousands of pages and likely almost 100k objects in its catalog (according to the story below it was over 400k). But for the global patrons it served its most attractive quality was that it served them all up for free.
Justia guest columnist and Temple law professor David Post offers a clear, detailed explanation of SOPA (and similar bills), and the reasons why they eventually failed—and, Post argues, should have fa...
real numbers on "piracy"
Potential legal test of digital first sale.
OUP demands work-for-hire status on essays written for a particular book series.