MORE 'AUTHORS-GUILD' POSTS
From Coyle’s InFormation: In its suit against HathiTrust the three authors guilds claim that there are digitized copies millions of copyrighted books in HathiTrust, and that these should be removed from the database and stored in escrow off-line. A relevant question is: who do the authors guilds represent, and how many of those books belong […]
Analysis: Chronicle of Higher Education's Jennifer Howard on Orphan Works Lawsuit
Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Preservation
|Direct to Full Text: In Authors’ Suit Against Libraries, an Attempt to Wrest Back Some Control Over Digitized Works (via Chronicle of Higher Education) by Jennifer Howard All the defendants participate both in HathiTrust and the Orphan Works Project. HathiTrust digital repository and the University of Michigan say the lawsuit will not derail their efforts. […]
New: Resource Packet on Orphan Works: Legal and Policy Issues for Research Libraries
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News
|Prepared by Prudence Adler (ARL), Jonathan Band (policybandwidth), Brandon Butler (ARL) Direct to Full Text (17 pages; PDF) From the Intro: The resource packet on legal and policy issues concerning orphan works provides general information concerning orphan works, the University of Michigan’s Orphan Works Project, an FAQ, and a legal memorandum by Jonathan Band, policybandwidth, […]
A must read for anyone interested in the lawsuit filed yesterday. Professor Grimmelmann (New York Law School) provides background, key facts, and then analysis. Here’s one paragraph from the blog post: The libraries had to have seen this coming. I’m sure that their general counsel have been stockpiling memos on the scans since 2004, and […]
Authors Guild, Australian Society of Authors, Quebec Writers Union Sue Five U.S. Universities
Academic Libraries, Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Preservation, Libraries, News, Open Access
|From an Authors Guild News Release: The Authors Guild, the Australian Society of Authors, the Union Des Écrivaines et des Écrivains Québécois (UNEQ), and eight individual authors have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in federal court against HathiTrust, the University of Michigan, the University of California, the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, and Cornell University. […]