“Is the Government handing your photos to media giants? The Government’s Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act, which became law last week with the end of the 2012/2013 parliamentary session, has come under attack over its treatment of so-called ‘orphan works’ …” (more)
[Alex Hern, New Statesman, 29 April]
“The Supreme Court has ruled on NLA v Meltwater, the case which could break, or save, the internet. Some background: the Newspaper Licensing Agency took Meltwater, a media monitoring firm to court over whether or not it had to pay licence fees for sending links to its customer …” (more)
[Alex Hern, New Statesman, 17 April]
“… This report will identify the main legal barriers to data mining and data reuse and make policy suggestions to guide governments, funding agencies, and research institutions. As the title suggests, the emphasis of the study is about legal issues that are specific to higher education institutions …” (more)
[TechnoLlama, 9 April]
“An array of enemies, from professors to Google to the Supreme Court, are dragging the US towards copyright nihilism that resembles Russia — at least this seems to be the view of Authors Guild President, Scott Turow …” (more)
[Jeff John Roberts, paidContent, 8 APril]
“A free-textbook company that was sued last year by three major textbook publishers has now rewritten the content it was accused of stealing. Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education filed a joint complaint in March 2012 against the company, known as Boundless …” (more)
[Jake New, Chronicle of Higher Education, 8 March]
“… Usually, we click these licenses with even a slight bit of annoyance. Occasionally, as a nod to that annoyance, there might be a cute note next to the assent tick box that reads: ‘The lawyers made us do this’. This cuteness belies the importance of the rights that one is signing away by agreeing to these terms of service …” (more)
[Todd Carpenter, The Scholarly Kitchen, 6 March]
“It seems that Google just can’t past this whole ‘stop pirating our bylines’ thing these days: the German lower parliament approved a bill requiring Google (and other search engines) to pay a licensing fee for re-publishing bylines of news stories …” (more)
[Liam Boogar, Rude Baguette, 4 March]
“Leslie Klinger knows more about Sherlock Holmes than nearly any other living scholar. Among his two-dozen books about the fictional detective is the exhaustive The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, which offers notes on the four novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novels and all 56 of his stories …” (more)
[The Economist, 20 February]
“Posting a link to copyrighted content should not be regarded as a communication of that work to the public, a group of leading academics has said …” (more)
[OUT-LAW, 19 February]
“Cries for copyright reform have typically come from Silicon Valley liberals. But in recent months, conservatives are adding arguments of their own. This presents the chance to reach a grand bargain on fixing copyright …” (more)
[Jeff John Roberts, GigoOM, 10 February]
“While Google may see its payments to French publishers as a smart move for its own short-term purposes, the deal is still being seen by many as a payment for links, and that could set a dangerous precedent …” (more)
[Mathew Ingram, GigaOm, 4 February]
“Fair use and electronic course reserves are back in court. A keenly watched copyright case that pitted three academic publishers against Georgia State University has entered the appeals phase, with a flurry of filings and motions this week and more expected soon …” (more)
[Jennifer Howard, Chronicle of Higher Education, 1 February]
“The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is conducting a review of its involvement in the case of Aaron Swartz, the internet pioneer who committed suicide earlier this month …” (more)
[Tyler Kingkade, Huffington Post, 24 January]
“As Google gets bogged down with the French government over a so-called ‘internet tax’, the newspaper Le Monde reports that the search giant tried and failed to reach a large-scale copyright deal before Christmas …” (more)
[Jeff John Roberts, paidContent, 21 January]
“Governments around the world are reviewing the relationship between exceptions to copyright laws and innovation and economic growth …” (more)
[Geoff Maslen, University World News, 19 January]
“On January 1st each year the Centre for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke University fetes Public Domain Day. It is a joyous occasion, celebrating the end of copyright protection for works that at long last leave the bosom of legal monopoly for the commonweal …” (more)
[Economist, 10 January]
“Law reform is required to support innovation and enable Australian universities to compete with the rest of the world in online education, say leading Australian educators …” (more)
[Charis Palmer, The Conversation, 10 January]
“Here’s an interesting – and crazy – development. If you were to scroll through the posts in this blog, you would find that in many of them I have linked to newspaper reports relevant to the topic. What I didn’t know is that my doing so may have exposed me to a very significant financial risk …” (more)
[Ferdinand von Prondzynski, University Blog, 8 January]
“The organisation which collects money from websites which it says breaks copyright by linking to Irish newspapers has issued a statement on its position following much discussion online …” (more)
[TheJournal.ie, 7 January]
“There is a bit of a storm in a tea cup brewing about whether people and organizations which link to content on another site should pay for the privilege …” (more)
[Careful With That Axe, Eugene, 7 January]
