MORE 'ORPHAN-WORKS' POSTS
EU: Commission Brokers Agreement For Mass Digitisation, MoU Signed
| Academic Libraries, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Publishing
From EurActiv: Books that have been gathering dust on library bookshelves can now be transformed into eBooks, according to a pan European agreement signed by libraries, publishers and rightsholders yesterday. Industry federations and the European Commission heralded the agreement signed yesterday between publishers, libraries, collecting societies and authors as groundbreaking as it would unleash countless […]
@BlankTextField and @grimmelm point out that the Authors Guild v. HathiTrust (AGvHT) docket shows that last Friday Judge Denny Chin said that the orphan works case is NOT related to the Google Books Settlement case. The AGvHT case has been assigned to Judge Harold Baer. You can view the complete AGvHT docket here (with linked documents). […]
From the Authors Guild Blog: Michigan pledged to re-examine its procedures and create a “more robust, transparent, and fully documented process” and continue the project: “we remain as certain as ever that our proposed uses of orphan works are lawful and important to the future of scholarship and the libraries that support it.” In the […]
From Publisher’s Weekly by Andrew Albanese: Following the filing of a lawsuit over its scanning and orphan works initiative, HathiTrust this morning said it would suspend indefinitely its plan to release a set of 140 orphan works until its processes for determining copyright status are improved. The move comes after Authors Guild members this week […]
New Report from EU: Electronic Clearance of Orphan Works Significantly Accelerates Mass Digitisation
Direct to Full Text Report: Seeking New Landscapes: A rights clearance study in the context of mass digitisation of 140 books published between 1870 and 2010’ (75 pages; PDF) From Background and Highlights (via British Library) The British Library, as part of the wider EU funded ARROW (Accessible Registries of Rights Information and Orphan Works) […]
Library Copyright Alliance Comments on Authors Guild/HathiTrust Lawsuit
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Here’s the Full Text: We are deeply disappointed by the Authors Guild’s decision to file a lawsuit, Authors Guild, Inc. et al. v. HathiTrust et al., against HathiTrust and its research library partners. The case has no merit, and completely disregards the rights of libraries and their users under the law, especially fair use. The […]
From the Authors Guild Blog: About two minutes of googling turned up a professor emeritus of one of the HathiTrust “orphan works” candidates. He lives in suburban Maryland. His second book sold a reported one million copies, and he’s listed in IMDb (two of his books were turned into movies: one starred Elvis Presley, the […]
New: Resource Packet on Orphan Works: Legal and Policy Issues for Research Libraries
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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, […]
University of Florida Libraries Join the HathiTrust Digital Library and Expand Digital Access to Orphan Works
| Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Publishing, Resources
What follows is the second HathiTrust new member announcement this week. The other day we mentioned that Notre Dame had joined the group. From a UFL Blog Post by Barbara Hood: The University of Florida (UF) George A. Smathers Libraries joined the HathiTrust Digital Library, a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure […]
U. of Michigan Library Users Will Soon Have Internet/Searchable Access to Thousands of Orphan Works in HathiTrust Database
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From The University Record Online: U-M Library users soon will have access to digital versions of some of the thousands of orphan works held in common by the U-M Library and the HathiTrust Digital Library. Making these works available in HathiTrust will render them fully searchable, viewable, and accessible to U-M researchers wherever there is […]
