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Salon.com
February 21, 2002
Damien Cave |
Mickey Mouse vs. The People How an antiquarian bookseller and a Nathaniel Hawthorne fan sued Congress and ended up before the Supreme Court...   |
Searcher
July 2005
Laura Gordon-Murnane |
Generosity and Copyright: Creative Commons and Creative Commons Search Tools Librarians now have a useful tool they can use to help identify content that patrons might want to use in a podcast, a mash-up, a collage, a video contribution to a blog, a document, a presentation, or whatever. |
Information Today
March 10, 2015
Abby Clobridge |
'Every Week Is Fair Use Week' Similar to Open Access Week, Fair Use Week is a loosely organized, week long event during which libraries, universities, museums, archives, and individuals raise awareness about fair use. |
Information Today
February 25, 2002
George H. Pike |
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Copyright Challenge Case On February 19, the U.S. Supreme Court gave an unexpected, late Valentine surprise to the copyright and publishing communities by agreeing to hear a challenge to the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act... |
Salon.com
April 15, 2002
Damien Cave |
In defense of copyright A top intellectual property lawyer argues that the Supreme Court's decision to review the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act is plain wrong... |
Wired
December 2001
Lawrence Lessig |
May the Source Be With You The laws protecting software code are stifling creativity, destroying knowledge, and betraying the public trust. It's time to bust the copyright monopoly... |
Searcher
September 2012
Peter B. Hirtle |
Feature: When is 1923 Going to Arrive and Other Complications of the u.s. Public Domain The public domain has always existed, but the rise of digital and networked technologies has made it particularly important. Our copyright laws represent an agreement among powerful publishing and media interests that is intended to work for their mutual benefit. |
InternetNews
January 23, 2007
Roy Mark |
Court Rejects Orphan Works Appeal Ninth Circuit rules 'no compelling reason' for First Amendment review of copyright law. |
Salon.com
January 17, 2003
Siva Vaidhyanathan |
After the copyright smackdown: What next? Don't despair at the Supreme Court's gift to Disney, says one expert. The fight has really only just begun. |
Reason
July 2001
Mike Godwin |
Copywrong Why the Digital Millennium Copyright Act hurts the public interest... |
Reason
November 2004
David G. Post |
Free Culture vs. Big Media In the book Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, author Lawrence Lessig leads the charge to retake the public domain. |
Information Today
October 18, 2010
Susanne Bjorner |
Creative Commons Releases Public Domain Mark Creative Commons announced the release of a tool that enables works free of known copyright restrictions to be labeled in a way that clearly communicates that status to the public and allows easy discovery of such works on the internet. |
Searcher
December 2002
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Just Can't Hardly Give It Away: Generosity Versus Copyright Many do not want to give up their copyright and the financial return on their creative work, but a growing number of creators do want to make their creations freely available. |
Information Today
April 15, 2010
Nancy Herther |
Google Sued for Copyright Infringement by Photographers and Visual Artists Google is accused of illegally scanning millions of copyrighted images in what the suit calls "the most widespread, well-publicized, and uncompensated infringement of exclusive rights in images in the history of book and periodical publishing" |
Information Today
January 20, 2003
George H. Pike |
Supreme Court Affirms Copyright Term Extension Act On Jan. 15, 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court released its much anticipated opinion upholding the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. The act extended the term of existing copyrights by 20 years, and also provided for longer terms for future copyrights, at least 70 years and in some cases well over 120 years. |
D-Lib
December 2003
Bonita Wilson |
Open Access and Public Domain Those providing content on an openly accessible web site should make clear what content can be freely reused and what cannot. |
Information Today
September 12, 2011
George H. Pike |
Orphan Works Project to Scan Library Books for Online Database This Orphan Works Project could result in digital access to millions of out-of-print books, but it also runs a risk of violating federal copyright laws. |
Information Today
June 3, 2002
Wallys W. Conhaim |
Creative Commons Nurtures the Public Domain Creative Commons is a new nonprofit organization that develops alternative approaches to handling copyright licensing and encouraging contributions to the public domain within the framework of the current copyright system. |
Wired
November 2004
Hilary Rosen |
How I Learned to Love Larry She was the champion of the music industry. He was the voice of the people. It was a deathmatch made in heaven, but they found common ground... Done right, copyrights can inspire the next digital revolution... |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2010
Laura Gordon-Murnane |
Creative Commons: Copyright Tools for the 21st Century Copyright laws in the U.S. have been around since 1790, but two 20th-century revisions, coupled with the internet's fostering of a read/write culture, have had a significant impact on the use, reuse, and distribution of digital media and content in this century. |
InternetNews
September 10, 2009 |
Lawmakers Probe Google Book Search Google's controversial digital book project saw another wave of public scrutiny this morning, this time in the form of a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the competitive implications of its landmark settlement with authors and publishers. |
Information Today
January 2006
Richard Poynder |
To Have and to Hold - Viewpoint: Association of American Publishers The Association of American Publishers has taken a stand on Google Book Search, previously called the Google Print Library Project. Here is its viewpoint. |
Information Today
April 30, 2015 |
ARL Announces Copyright Policy Coalition The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), American Library Association, Center for Democracy & Technology, and seven other organizations launched the Re:create coalition for promoting balanced copyright policy. |
Information Today
November 19, 2009 |
International Activists Launch New Copyright Watch Website The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Electronic Information for Libraries, and other international copyright experts joined together to launch a public website created to centralize resources on national copyright laws. |
Linux Journal
August 1, 2002
Lawrence Rosen |
Geek Law: Fair Use Unfortunately, the word fair has colloquial meanings that are different from the legal meaning of the phrase fair use. The law doesn't say that any licensing practice you find distasteful or that you morally oppose can be ignored if to do so would be fair. |
BusinessWeek
April 5, 2004
Heather Green |
Creativity In Chains In Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, the author insists that our very ability to make cultural products is newly endangered. |
D-Lib
August 2008
Peter B. Hirtle |
Copyright Renewal, Copyright Restoration, and the Difficulty of Determining Copyright Status It is almost impossible to determine with certainty whether a work published from 1923 through 1963 in the US is in the public domain because of copyright restoration of foreign works. |
Information Today
March 31, 2011
George H. Pike |
Google Book Settlement Rejected: What's Next? Last week's rejection of the proposed settlement of the lawsuit between Google and a group of authors and publishers has thrown the future of the Google Book database into question. |
Linux Journal
July 2001
Lawrence Rosen |
Copyright Confusion Do I need to put a copyright notice on my software?... Can a software license restrict my ability to use software?... |
Information Today
June 26, 2008
Barbara Quint |
1923--1963: Google Book Search Targeting More Books for Public Domain? Before 1923, all library partners in the program let Google's mass digitization program grind away, but only a handful of library partners will risk letting post-1923, probably in-copyright material from their collections into the program. |
AskMen.com
Ross Bonander |
5 Things You Didn't Know: Copyright Copyright constitutes one aspect of intellectual property law; here are five things you may not know about it. |
Wired
March 2004
Lawrence Lessig |
Some Like It Hot OK, P2P is "piracy." But so was the birth of Hollywood, radio, cable TV, and (yes) the music industry. |
Search Engine Watch
March 3, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Finding Free Content in the Creative Commons The Creative Commons search engine can help you find tons of (legally) free stuff on the web, such as photos, music, text, and books. |
D-Lib
February 2006
Esther Hoorn |
Copyright Issues in Open Access Research Journals: The Authors' Perspective A survey reveals the desire on the part of academics to change the balance of rights within copyright between authors and publishers in scholarly communication journals. |
Information Today
June 9, 2015 |
U.S. Copyright Office Report Addresses Orphan Works and Mass Digitization The U.S. Copyright Office documented the problems that occur when using orphan works and engaging in mass digitization projects. |
Information Today
November 27, 2006
Marji McClure |
Lisensa Poised to Raise Profile of User-Generated Content Lisensa launched this month with the goal of enabling bloggers to manage the copyright and monetization of their unique content. |
Fast Company
Elizabeth Segran |
What If You Got Paid For Everything You Post On Social Networks? Artists have been struggling to make money as long as art has been existed, but it's been a particularly tough task in the Internet era. |
Information Today
September 22, 2011
Nancy K. Herther |
Authors Take Libraries to Court in Face Off on Copyright Issues On Sept. 12, eight authors -- including James Shapiro and Fay Weldon -- along with three key organizations representing authors in North America and Australia -- filed suit to stop academic libraries from their participation in HathiTrust digitization projects |
Information Today
November 19, 2013
George H. Pike |
Google's Fair Use Defense Prevails in Google Books Lawsuit A federal court in New York gave Google a huge victory that may likely end its 9-year fight with the Authors Guild and individual authors over the Google Books scanning project. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2006
David Kushner |
Uncommon Law An interview with Lawrence Lessig, founder and chair of Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that lets copyright holders, from musicians to engineers, grant flexible use of their work on his plans to launch the Science Commons with the hopes of expanding into the world of research. |
D-Lib
October 2003
Geneva Henry |
On-line Publishing in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities To understand where publishing is headed, we must consider the possibilities of what can be achieved with new technologies that enable the exchange of knowledge and information in unprecedented ways. |
Information Today
June 6, 2011
Barbara Quint |
University of Michigan Libraries Target HathiTrust's Orphan Works Orphan works have been a thorn in the side of librarians, particularly academic librarians, forever. Orphans are in-copyright works for which current copyright holders are difficult or impossible to locate or perhaps even identify. |
D-Lib
November 2005
Kenneth Hamma |
Public Domain Art in an Age of Easier Mechanical Reproducibility Making visual reproductions of public domain art works available online for use and reuse without charge would likely benefit the collecting institutions and would contribute to the public good. |
Information Today
April 16, 2007 |
Stanford Launches Copyright Renewal Database The database is designed to be a tool for anyone researching the copyright status of books. |
Macworld
February 2001
Philip Michaels |
Copyright Program Simplifies Paperwork Official Copyright 1.5 is a great source of copyright information, offering a tutorial on copyright issues and an efficient search feature that helps you find the right form. But the registration process is where Official Copyright really earns its keep... |
Linux Journal
May 2, 2002
Tom Poe |
Community-Based Recording Studios: A Look into the Future A proposal to build free recording studios within communities as a way to increase the Public Domain and circumvent the recording industry. |
Reason
March 2003
Jesse Walker |
Locking Up Movies Master of the public domain? Free digital archives of out-of-print old movies could be a great resource, but for the fact that Congress keeps extending the copyright terms. |
Salon.com
August 31, 2001
Damien Cave |
Copywrong? A government report giving the Digital Millennium Copyright Act a passing grade is a disaster for the general public, say critics... |
Information Today
August 26, 2014
Abby Clobridge |
New MOOC Teaches Educators and Librarians About Copyright Copyright for Educators & Librarians is one of a few new courses directly related to the work of librarians and information professionals. |
Chemistry World
May 23, 2011
Ned Stafford |
Report: Free researchers from copyright shackles A new government-commissioned review of UK copyright laws is recommending major changes that would have not only a major impact on the music and film industry, but also on scientific research. |
