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Information Today
June 28, 2001
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Tasini Case Final Decision: Authors Win The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on the issue of freelance writers' rights to separate compensation for electronic copies of their work...   |
Searcher
January 2001
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Final Hours: Tasini Goes to the Supreme Court The United States Supreme Court has announced it will hear the appeal New York Times v. Tasini. In hearing this case, the Supreme Court will decide the rights of freelance authors and perhaps the future of digital content... |
Information Today
March 9, 2009
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Supreme Court to Review Jurisdiction in Freelance Writers Case `Settlement' Freelancers take publishers to court to get compensation for their articles being downloaded from archives. |
Information Today
August 14, 2000
Paula J. Hane |
National Writers Union Reaches Agreement with Contentville; Freelance Writers Make Significant Progress in Royalty Compensation NWU reaches agreement with Contentville site on compensation of freelance writers for use of copyrighted works. |
Information Today
October 11, 2012
George H. Pike |
Google's Settlement With Publishers Does Not Resolve All Library Project Issues After more than 7 years of litigation, Google and The Association of American Publishers reached a settlement over Google's ongoing Library Project to scan books from public and academic libraries and make the content available over Google. |
Information Today
April 4, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Post-Tasini Class Action Case Settling for Up to $18 Million The finding by the Supreme Court established that publishers and the information industry had to get approval from authors to electronically publish reports. The amount to be paid to writers under the settlement plan depends on a number of factors. |
Information Today
December 19, 2011
George H. Pike |
Class Action Filed in Google Books Case The long- delayed lawsuit over the Google Book project took a significant step toward court action and potentially farther away from a settlement with the filing of a motion for Class Certification by The Authors Guild and several individual authors. |
Information Today
October 22, 2001
Barbara Quint |
A Second Tasini? National Geographic Loses to Freelance Photographers On October 9, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the National Geographic Society to overturn an appellate court decision over digitized photographs that had posed another test of the intellectual property rights of freelancers... |
Information Today
October 15, 2001
Gail Dykstra |
Canadian Court Rules in Favor of Freelance Authors For anyone interested in copyright, electronic databases, and freelance writers, there's a new Canadian decision you should know about that promises to be a landmark case... |
Information Today
November 13, 2000
Paula J. Hane |
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Tasini Case In September 1999, the U.S. Appeals Court for the Second Circuit, in New York, reversed a lower-court decision and ruled that it's copyright infringement for a publisher to put a freelancer's work online or reuse or resell it without explicit permission... |
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. |
Information Today
March 30, 2001
Barbara Quint |
One Hour to Midnight: Tasini Oral Arguments at the Supreme Court Silence in the court. As the last red light flickered on the dais, the long legal debate over the rights of publishers to distribute content created by freelance writers in electronic form came to an end at 11:04 a.m. EST on Wednesday, March 28... |
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
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. |
InternetNews
September 21, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Authors Guild Gags on Google Library Authors sue Google in federal court over the Google Library program, charging massive copyright infringement. |
D-Lib
November 2006
Peter B. Hirtle |
Author Addenda: An Examination of Five Alternatives While not perfect, author addenda can be an important tool that authors can use to retain the rights they want or that their employing institutions request that they retain. |
Information Today
April 2002
Barbara Quint |
Tasini Damage-Reporting Decisions Buyers of full-text services are now struggling with the aftermath of Tasini, and many vendors are not being forthright about what's been lost... |
Searcher
March 2005
Carol Ebbinghouse |
Open Access: The Battle for Universal, Free Knowledge Many publishers are joining authors in permitting open access through self-archiving in institutional repositories. |
Information Today
May 31, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Google Library Project Hit by Copyright Challenge from University Presses Extending the Google Print program to the digitization of five of the world's largest university research libraries, including copyrighted as well as non-copyrighted material, would inevitably seem to lead to a challenge of copyright violation. Oddly enough, the challenge has come from the less commercial publishers--the nonprofit university presses. |
Searcher
September 2001
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - That Windblown Look Now that the Supreme Court has made its decision in the Tasini case, one which confirms the copyright ownership of freelance authors in full-text material currently online, our world trembles as it waits to learn how publishers, database aggregators, search services, and authors will work out their ownership problems. |
Information Today
May 17, 2012
George H. Pike |
Georgia State University Copyright Decision Issued -- New Rules for Users and Publishers In a highly anticipated decision, a federal court in Atlanta gave Georgia State University a solid, although not complete victory in its fair use defense of its course web and electronic library reserve programs. |
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
March 29, 2010
George H. Pike |
Summary Judgment Motions Filed in Georgia State Copyright Infringement Lawsuit The increasingly testy copyright infringement lawsuit between Cambridge University Press and other publishers and Georgia State University (GSU) over electronic course materials may be coming to a climax. |
D-Lib
Sep/Oct 2014
Heidi Zuniga |
The Role of a Digital Repository in a Library-Managed Open Access Fund Program This article discusses the development of an open access author fund at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Health Sciences Library and the subsequent partnership with the library's digital repository, in which the articles supported by the fund were added to the repository. |
Information Today
December 6, 2012
George H. Pike |
`Window' for Terminating a Copyright Transfer Agreement Opens in 2013 A little-known provision of the Copyright Act of 1976 could wreak further havoc on a publishing industry already struggling to deal with the transition from traditional print formats to digital content. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2005
Kathleen E. Joswick |
Electronic Full-Text Journal Articles: Convenience or Compromise Educators must understand and communicate the scope and limitations of full-text databases in order to enable their students to become contentious consumers of electronic information. |
Information Today
December 2005
Keith Kupferschmid |
Are Authors and Publishers Getting Scroogled? A copyright analysis of the Google Print Library Project. |
Information Today
February 2007
Miriam A. Drake |
Scholarly Communication in Turmoil Two leading experts provide some insight into scholarly publishing now and in the future. |
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... |
Information Today
October 7, 2014
Nancy K. Herther |
European Law Works to Move Copyright Into the 21st Century The European Court of Justice ruled that libraries, "for the purpose of research or private study," can digitize works as a legitimate fair use exemption to European Union copyright law, with some specific limitations. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2010
Donald W. King |
An Approach to Open Access Author Payment This article discusses a few of the favorable and unfavorable issues with Open Access through author payment and proposes an approach that takes advantage of the favorable aspects and overcomes some of the unfavorable ones. |
Information Today
October 28, 2014
George H. Pike |
Appeals Court Reverses Georgia State Fair Use Decision A federal appellate court reversed a fair use finding in favor of Georgia State University in its long-standing copyright dispute with several academic publishers. |
Information Today
May 7, 2012
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest for Everyone: The Udini Service Officially Launches ProQuest has officially launched Udini, an end-user service that is open to all web users. |
InternetNews
October 29, 2008
David Needle |
Authors Cheer Google Book Search Deal Settlement for $125 million ends a long battle over Google's Library project and searching inside books. |
Information Today
October 10, 2005
Carole Ebbinghouse |
We've Not Seen the Last of The Copyright Class Action So far, none of the organizations involved in The Copyright Class Action and In Re Literary Works in Electronic Databases Copyright Litigation or the copyright class action Web site have a press release or any mention of the final approval of the settlement by the court on Sept. 30. |
D-Lib
March 2006 |
To the Editor (March 2006) A reader responds to the article, Copyright Issues in Open Access Research Journals: The Authors' Perspective. |
Information Today
December 2003
Dick Kaser |
Intranet Publishers Beware! The ruling in Lowry's vs. Legg Mason should send a warning to everyone who operates the content side of an intranet. As a publisher for your organization, you need to understand and respect copyright law. |
Information Today
January 17, 2012
Robin Peek |
Research Works Act Could Challenge Public Access to Federally Funded Research This act is designed to thwart activities such as the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy, which requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central. |
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. |
Information Today
August 27, 2012
George H. Pike |
Georgia State University Declared 'Prevailing Party' in Copyright Battle GSU was sued for copyright infringement for its practice of scanning publishers' works for use in course webpages, on courseweb software such as Blackboard, and its e-reserve services. |
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
February 13, 2006
Miriam A. Drake |
University of Michigan President Distresses Scholarly Publishers Mary Sue Coleman delivered an address that concerned the Google Book Library Project at the University of Michigan and issues related to copyright, preservation, and providing public access to knowledge. |
Information Today
November 2006
Mick O'Leary |
Database Review: Google Book Search Has Far to Go Google Book Search is Google's grand project to create a universal full-text e-book library. Here are the details of how Book Search works. |
Information Today
November 3, 2008
Barbara Quint |
The Google Book Search Settlement: `The Devil's in the Details' For the last 3 years, the Google Book Search Library Project has operated under the shadow of lawsuits filed by the Authors Guild and several members in a class action suit and by the Association of American Publishers. |
D-Lib
February 2000
Lynn Pritcher |
Ad*Access: Seeking Copyright Permissions for a Digital Age A description of the copyright issues faced by an academic institution wishing to place a library of advertisements on the Internet. Includes a description of their efforts to determine copyright holders and obtain permissions. |
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... |
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. |
Searcher
January 2002
Myer Kutz |
The Scholars Rebellion Against Scholarly Publishing Practices: Varmus, Vitek, and Venting In the decades-long arguments over STM (scientific/technical/medical) journal publishing, mainly about subscription price increases and intellectual property and accessibility issues, one thing has changed in the last few years. Scholars have become involved... |
Information Today
August 15, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Google slows library project to accommodate publishers Publishers complain about copyright issues with Google's Print for Libraries program. |
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. |
