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Last week the Second Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a decision with potentially disastrous consequences for higher education. I admit that I have been reluctant to write about it because I cannot think of a good remedy for the situation and I dislike the role of Chicken Little, always crying that the sky is … Continue reading Getting first sale wrong →
WelcomeThere's a lot of misinformation out there about legal rights and responsibilities in the digital era.This is especially disconcerting when it comes to information being shared with youth. Kids
A viral video uploaded to YouTube and parodied by South Park led to a lawsuit …
The Congressional Budget Office says the government would spend about $10 …
From the blogger who's looking to spice up a post to the hacker who needs a …
Can We Subpoena The Monkey? Why The Monkey Self-Portraits Are Likely In The Public Domain | Techdirt
In Which Copyright Hogs Make Yet More Stupid Claims -- debunked.
OH FFS.
Op-ed: Loopholes in a new data retention bill push those wanting to use the ' …
A year and a half ago, we wrote about a movie that was entirely filmed by chimpanzees, and wondered about who held the copyright on it. ...
(by Peter Hirtle) CLIR has inaugurated a new publication series called Ruminations, and for its first report, it has published an incredibly interesting and important report by John Wilkin. In “Bibliographic Indeterminacy and the Scale of Problems and Opportunities of...
When a library buys (not licenses) a copy of an ebook, it is subject to the same copyright restrictions and allowances as when the library buys a hardback copy. It has no more legal right to make 10 copies of...
Copyright in sound recordings is WEIRD.
For obvious reasons there has been a lot of attention paid to the Georgia State copyright infringement case recently. In that litigation three academic publishers are asking a judge to fiercely restrict academic fair use in favor of a pay-per-use system that, in my opinion, disregards the expressed intent of Congress in the 1976 Copyright … Continue reading A second front →