From The Ubssey (School Paper at UBC): UBC [U. of British Columbia] has announced that it won’t be returning to Access Copyright. The Association of Canadian Colleges and Universities (ACCU), of which UBC is a member, agreed to draft a deal with Access Copyright, a publishing organization that centrally controls rights for academic materials such [...]
Full Text of Court Opinion in Georgia State University Copyright Case
Filed by on May 12, 2012
UPDATE (May 13, 2012): Analysis and Commentary about the Court Ruling by: Professor James Grimmelmann, New York Law School My bottom line on the case is that it’s mostly a win for Georgia State and mostly a loss for the publishers. The big winner is CCC. It gains leverage against universities for coursepack and e-reserve [...]
Israel’s National Library Director Pledges to Place Disputed Kafka Manuscripts on Internet
Filed by on May 6, 2012
via Haaretz: The National Library in Jerusalem has prepared a program for handling Franz Kafka’s manuscripts and promises to make them and other rare collections available on the Internet. However, the court has yet to rule on the fate of the Czech writer’s manuscripts. The manuscripts, part of the literary estate of Kafka’s close friend [...]
LA Times Op-Ed by Pamela Samuelson: “A Universal Digital Library is Within Reach”
Filed by on May 1, 2012
Pamela Samuelson is a professor at the Berkeley Law School & the UC Berkeley School of Information. Samuelson is also the director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. From the LA Times Op-Ed: Ideally, a digital library would provide access not only to books free from copyright constraints (those published before 1923), but [...]
U.S. Copyright Office Posts Requests for Information About Crowdsourcing and Developing a “Virtual Card Catalog” of Historical Records
Filed by on May 1, 2012
The U.S. Copyright Office (part of The Library of Congress) has posted TWO Requests For Information (RFI) . The first is RFI is to learn about utilizing crowdsourcing to capture data from historical catalog cards dating from 1870 to 1977. The second RFI is to learn about purchasing or developing software for a “virtual card catalog” [...]
New From ALA: Community Practices in the Fair Use of Video in Libraries
Filed by on April 30, 2012
From an ALA District Dispatch Post by Carrie Russell: Librarians at schools, colleges and universities play an important role helping their users understand and apply copyright law. This makes sense because educational institutions are sites for learning, and the advancement of learning is the purpose of the copyright. Congress recognized the unique status of non-profit [...]
Copyright: New Organization: Linked Content Coalition Launches in Europe
Filed by on April 27, 2012
From the News Release: Executives from news media, publishing, TV, film, music, IT and internet media businesses (see list here) have got together with existing standards and licensing organisations to work in coalition on a cross-media global project that will result in better and easier management of copyright in the online world. [Clip] Its remit [...]
Library Copyright Alliance Files Friend of the Court Brief in The Authors Guild v. HathiTrust Case
Filed by on April 24, 2012
The friend of the court brief was written by Jonathan Band. The Library Copyright Alliance is consists of ALA, ACRL, and ARL. The 28 page brief (PDF) is available here via ARL. We’ve also embedded a copy below. Friend of the Court Brief Filed by Library Copyright Alliance in Authors Guild v HathiTrust
Video of “Standards and Strategies for Fair Use Decisions Inside Libraries and Universities” Conference Now Online
Filed by on April 23, 2012
The Standards and Strategies for Fair Use Decisions Inside Libraries and Universities Conference took place on March 27, 2012 at Columbia University in New York City. The event was organized by Columbia University Libraries. Conference Home Page Blurb The panels feature a range of academic and professional experts including: Peter Jaszi, professor of law at [...]
