This one has been a long time coming, but this morning, Judge Denny Chin (who actually has a long history of siding with copyright...

AG sez THANK YOU SIR MAY I HAVE ANOTHER.

"In my view, Google Books provides significant public benefits. It advances the progress of the arts and sciences, while maintaining respec...

Editor’s note: This is Part One of Duncan's LibraryCity series on the Digital Public Library of America and public libraries. Part Two is here. Related: Why the DPLA should focus on…

Good exemplar of public-library beefs with DPLA.

Once expected to be a defining copyright battle for the digital age when it was first filed in 2005, the case came down to a short, anticlimactic hearing in which Chin reserved judgment, but sounded more than ready to rule.

A valid viewpoint that I don't entirely agree with.

Officially, Judge Chin is undecided and is giving the parties their proper chance to persuade him. But his scheduling orders are the work of a judge who would like to bring matters to a close, and soon.

The two lawsuits currently going on that involve the scanning of books for the Google Books project, one against Google directly and the other against the HathiTrust, raise very similar issues.  In both cases, the two major issues are fair use and the posture of the plaintiffs who are bringing the cases in the first … Continue reading Parallel tracks, parallel successes →

The Google Books litigation, now in its eighth year, is not so much out of gas as low on motor oil. It grinds on, with more smoke and noise than forward progress.

Today the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) announced that the HathiTrust Digital Library will partner with DPLA to expand discovery and use of HathiTrust’s public domain and other openly available content. DPLA provides an online portal to freely available digital material held by libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. The HathiTrust Digital Library offers a collection of millions of titles digitized from academic and research institutions around the world. The new partnership doubles the size of the DPLA collection and provides a wider audience for the HathiTrust titles...

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For all the talk of how the MPAA and RIAA are extreme copyright maximalists, in my experience the one group of copyright maximalists who...

Not only a hub for books, the DPLA made an API so anyone can build a reading room.

The Digital Public Library of America is a project to make the holdings of America’s research libraries, archives, and museums available to all Americans—and eventually to everyone in the world—online and free of charge. How is that possible? In order to answer that question, I would like to describe the first steps and immediate future of the DPLA. But before going into detail, I think it important to stand back and take a broad view of how such an ambitious undertaking fits into the development of what we commonly call an information society.