What If We Asked the Librarians? Or, How The Librarians’ Code Is Different
ARL – “Today, with help from our partners at the Center for Social Media at American University, and the Law School at AU, and with support from a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, ARL is...
View ArticleAppeal Filings Outline Authors Guild’s Objections to HathiTrust Opinion
“With a new round of filings hitting the docket last week, the Authors Guild appeal of Judge Harold Baer’s landmark copyright decision in the the HathiTrust case is underway. The broad appeal raises a...
View ArticleInfographic Shows Good News about Library Fair Use
“Today ARL, American University’s (AU) Washington College of Law, and AU’s School of Communication released a new infographic that tells the story of library fair use and the Code of Best Practices in...
View ArticleGoogle Seeks Ruling Copying Books Without Permission Is Fair
Google Inc., the world’s largest search engine, is facing the challenge of persuading a judge that digitally copying millions of books for online searches without authors’ permission is protected by...
View ArticleLibraries applaud dismissal of Google Book Search Case
“After eight years of litigation, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York today upheld the fair use doctrine when the court dismissed Authors Guild v. Google, a case that...
View ArticleExperts Say Academics Are Timid About Fair Use Laws
“Visual arts professionals, including art historians, let real and perceived fears about copyright law get in the way of their work, finds a new report from the College Art Association. And while the...
View ArticleScope of Fair Use: Library Copyright Alliance Submits Statement for House...
“Yesterday, the US House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet held another hearing on copyright review. This hearing focused on the scope of fair...
View ArticleCOURT: SEARCHABLE BOOKS DATABASE IS ‘FAIR USE’
“The creation of a full-text searchable database of millions of books is a fair use of copyrighted works, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, saying it also is permissible to distribute the books in...
View ArticleALA responds to Eleventh Circuit Court’s encouraging “fair use” decision in...
“On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit handed down an important decision in Cambridge University Press et al. v. Carl V. Patton et al. concerning the permissible “fair use” of...
View ArticleVideos Show Value of Code of Best Practices in Fair Use
“Today, October 21, 2014, ARL released three videos on the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries, a clear and easy-to-use statement of reasonable approaches to fair use...
View ArticlePublishers call for federal government to settle ‘fair use’ in higher education
“Publishers are seeking “corrective authoritative guidance” from the federal government to stop the trend of court rulings they say are expanding copyright exemptions beyond their legal intent, but...
View ArticleBy: Jenny Levine
Interesting, as this kind of goes against http://www.librarystuff.net/2007/10/15/connections-and-stats/ . Are you leaning more towards one or the other?
View ArticleBy: Steven
Hi Jenny: I never said that I agree with Winer. I just quoted from his post. It’s pretty much split between currency, attention, and marketing.
View ArticleBy: Talking Books Librarian
Interesting – I just started blogging last month, and it does make me think, WHY am I really blogging? I think part of it is to help make others aware of resources, at least in the case of my blog...
View ArticleWhat If We Asked the Librarians? Or, How The Librarians’ Code Is Different
ARL – “Today, with help from our partners at the Center for Social Media at American University, and the Law School at AU, and with support from a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, ARL is...
View ArticleAppeal Filings Outline Authors Guild’s Objections to HathiTrust Opinion
“With a new round of filings hitting the docket last week, the Authors Guild appeal of Judge Harold Baer’s landmark copyright decision in the the HathiTrust case is underway. The broad appeal raises a...
View ArticleInfographic Shows Good News about Library Fair Use
“Today ARL, American University’s (AU) Washington College of Law, and AU’s School of Communication released a new infographic that tells the story of library fair use and the Code of Best Practices in...
View ArticleGoogle Seeks Ruling Copying Books Without Permission Is Fair
Google Inc., the world’s largest search engine, is facing the challenge of persuading a judge that digitally copying millions of books for online searches without authors’ permission is protected by...
View ArticleLibraries applaud dismissal of Google Book Search Case
“After eight years of litigation, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York today upheld the fair use doctrine when the court dismissed Authors Guild v. Google, a case that...
View ArticleExperts Say Academics Are Timid About Fair Use Laws
“Visual arts professionals, including art historians, let real and perceived fears about copyright law get in the way of their work, finds a new report from the College Art Association. And while the...
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