Friday, June 5, 2009

Copyright Meets a New Foe: The Real-Time Web

Copyright Meets a New Foe: The Real-Time Web
-- Liz Gannes, Business Week May 21, 2009,

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2009/tc20090521_159692.htm

"The Digital Millennium Copyright Act may seem inadequate to address the issues that arise from the furious rate Internet users are sharing content. "

Google: We're good for journalism

Google: We're good for journalism
--Stephen Shankland, May 6, 2009 CNET News

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10234622-93.html

"Google is under attack for profiting from content produced by newspaper executives, magazine publishers, and The Associated Press, but the company's Marissa Mayer on Wednesday sought to convince the U.S. Senate that Google adds to journalism, too. "

India ahead of US, UK in IP laws, enforcement practices

India ahead of US, UK in IP laws, enforcement practices

--Economic Times, May 6, 2009

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4492767.cms?flstry=1
"India has been ranked as the country with the world's most consumer friendly intellectual property (IP) laws since its copyright
regulations allow allow citizens great freedom to access and utilise information for educational and development purposes."

US Congress introduces bill to end free access to federally funded research

US Congress introduces bill to end free access to federally funded research
- Jeanne Lenzer

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/338/jun01_2/b2199
Published 1 June 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b2199

"A bill has been introduced in the US Congress that would end free access to the results of published studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). "

Pushing the Envelope on Copyright Exemptions

Pushing the Envelope on Copyright Exemptions
--Doug Lederman

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/12/30/copyright

"Professors, librarians and others have proposed that the U.S. Copyright Office significantly expand its list of when, and by whom, DVDs and other audiovisual materials should be exempted from technological measures that control access to copyrighted works. The list came in a Federal Register notice of proposed rule making that is one early step in a yearlong process that is likely to culminate next fall."

Supreme Court to Revisit a Case on Breach of Copyright

Supreme Court to Revisit a Case on Breach of Copyright.
--Adam Liptak, The New York Times, March 2, 2009.

http://tinyurl.com/d5oybs

"The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to revisit a case it decided eight
years ago in favor of freelance writers who said that newspapers and
magazines had committed copyright infringement by making their
contributions available on electronic databases."