News on the Horizon

Righthaven Must Pay Large Fine, More Likely to Come

2011-10-28T05:47:00.000-07:00

Righthaven ordered to pay nearly $120,000 in attorney fees, court costs

Blackboard to Add Support for Creative Commons Attribution

2011-10-21T06:11:00.000-07:00

Blackboard Platforms Will Support OER Through Creative Commons

HathiTrust Orphan Works Project Grows as University of California, Others Join Up

2011-10-04T09:15:00.000-07:00

By David Rapp Sep 1, 2011
Library Journal.com
http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/community/copyrightfairuse/891836-420/hathitrust_orphan_works_project_grows.html.csp

How to Rip DVD Clips

2011-09-27T06:42:00.000-07:00

How to Rip DVD Clips
from The Chronicle of Higher Education
https://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/how-to-rip-dvd-clips/26090

by Jason Mittell
Associate Professor of Film & Media Culture and American Studies
Middlebury College

Copyright References from Copyhype

2011-09-26T09:15:00.000-07:00

Copyright Reference
by Terry Hart
This page contains various online references, articles, and other sources that I have found helpful in writing for this site and understanding copyright law.

http://www.copyhype.com/references/

A Village Person Tests the Copyright Law

2011-08-17T11:25:00.000-07:00

A Village Person Tests the Copyright Law
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/17/arts/music/village-people-singer-claims-rights-to-ymca.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

More on Righthaven Lawsuits

2011-08-05T08:57:00.000-07:00

Righthaven: The controversy over copyrights
http://www.vegasinc.com/news/2011/jul/25/copyright-conundrum/

Righthaven Loss: Judge Rules Reposting Entire Article Is Fair Use
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/06/fair-use-defense/

Righthaven Says It Owns News Articles It’s Suing Over — for Real This Time
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/06/righthaven-survival-bid/

Copyright troll Righthaven achieves spectacular "fair use" loss

2011-08-05T08:49:00.000-07:00

Copyright troll Righthaven achieves spectacular "fair use" loss
By Nate Anderson
from Ars Technica Law & Disorder
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/copyright-troll-righthaven-achieves-spectacular-fair-use-loss.ars

The P-Word: Is Matched Text the Same as Plagiarism?

2011-08-05T08:36:00.000-07:00

The P-Word: Is Matched Text the Same as Plagiarism
By Phil Davis
from The Scholarly Kitten

http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2011/04/29/the-p-word/

Will Righthaven Copyright Lawsuits Change Excerpting Online?

2011-03-07T13:25:00.000-08:00

Will Righthaven Copyright Lawsuits Change Excerpting Online?

Going to school at Georgia State!

2010-12-16T13:40:00.000-08:00

Going to school at Georgia State!
by Peter Jaszi, Center for Intellectual Property

Of Cooks and Goats: Hard Lessons of Online Copyright

2010-11-15T13:33:00.000-08:00

Of Cooks and Goats: Hard Lessons of Online Copyright
by Jason Fell, Folio Magazine, November 14, 2010

Judge Tells LimeWire to Disable Its Software

2010-10-27T12:41:00.000-07:00

Judge Tells LimeWire to Disable Its Software
by Tim Arango, New York Times, October 26, 2010

Stevie Wonder Urges UN to Ease Copyrights for the Blind

2010-09-22T06:36:00.000-07:00

Stevie Wonder Urges UN to Ease Copyrights for the Blind
by Bonnie Stiernberg
Paste Magazine
September 24

Copyright Office Rules in Favor of Fair Use and Consumer Freedom

2010-08-06T07:41:00.000-07:00

Copyright Office Rules in Favor of Fair Use and Consumer Freedom
by Edward Lee
The Huffington Post, Aug. 3, 2010
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/edward-lee/copyright-office-rules-in_b_668329.html

The Content Producer’s Copyright Checklist

2010-08-06T07:37:00.000-07:00

The Content Producer’s Copyright Checklist
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2010/08/03/the-content-producers-copyright-checklist/

Copyright Watch

2010-05-11T06:52:00.000-07:00

Copyright Watch
http://www.copyright-watch.org/home

Check out the new website that collects and monitors copyright laws from across the globe. The goal is to provide user-friendly acces to copyright information and enable comparative research. Choose from the drop-down menu to select a country and then view it's copyright laws.

Google's digitization of books

2009-12-15T08:54:00.000-08:00

--Susan Noakes
Last Updated: Monday, November 9, 2009 10:11 AM ET
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2009/11/09/f-google-digitization-books.html

Orphan Works Best Practices

2009-10-12T07:06:00.000-07:00

Orphan Works: Statement of Best Practices
CHICAGO-The Society of American Archivists (SAA) has issued Orphan Works: Statement of Best Practices, a 16-page report that provides what professional archivists consider the best methods to use when attempting to identify and locate copyright holders. The statement, which primarily focuses on unpublished materials because they are usually found in archives, is available on the associations website as a PDF at http://www.archivists.org/standards/.
Orphan works is a term used to describe the situation in which the owner of a copyrighted work cannot be identified and located by someone who wishes to make use of the work in a manner that requires permission of the copyright owner. Eight archivists and a recognized legal expert in intellectual property and copyright law developed the statement, based upon their experiences researching copyright status. We created this statement to provide archivists with a framework to discover what materials they hold are truly orphaned works, and in the hopes of empowering them to provide wider access and use of those materials as a result, said Heather Briston, chair of SAAs Intellectual Property Working Group.

The primary authors of the statement include Briston (University of Oregon), Mark Allen Greene (University of Wyoming), Cathy Henderson (University of Texas, Austin), Peter
Hirtle (Cornell University), Peter Jaszi (American University) , William Maher (University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Aprille Cooke McKay (University of Michigan), Richard Pearce-Moses (Arizona State Library), and Merrilee Proffitt (OCLC). Financial and administrative support was provided for this project by OCLC Research and the RLG Partnership. More information on SAAs Intellectual Property Working Group can be found at:
http://www.archivists.org/saagroups/ipwg/.

Copyright Meets a New Foe: The Real-Time Web

2009-06-05T12:16:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-05T12:09:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-05T12:02:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-05T11:51:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-05T11:39:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-05T11:33:00.000-07:00

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."

Want to Copy iTunes Music? Go Ahead, Apple Says

2009-01-15T11:48:00.000-08:00

Want to Copy iTunes Music? Go Ahead, Apple Says
-- Brad Stone, The New York Times, January 6, 2009.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/companies/07apple.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

"In moves that will help shape the online future of the music business, Apple said Tuesday that it would remove anticopying restrictions on all of the songs in its popular iTunes Store and allow record companies to set a range of prices for them."