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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 January 20, 2003 George H. Pike |
Supreme Court Affirms Copyright Term Extension Act On Jan. 15, 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court released its much anticipated opinion upholding the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. The act extended the term of existing copyrights by 20 years, and also provided for longer terms for future copyrights, at least 70 years and in some cases well over 120 years.  |
Salon.com April 15, 2002 Damien Cave |
In defense of copyright A top intellectual property lawyer argues that the Supreme Court's decision to review the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act is plain wrong...  |
InternetNews January 23, 2007 Roy Mark |
Court Rejects Orphan Works Appeal Ninth Circuit rules 'no compelling reason' for First Amendment review of copyright law.  |
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.  |
Salon.com February 21, 2002 Damien Cave |
Mickey Mouse vs. The People How an antiquarian bookseller and a Nathaniel Hawthorne fan sued Congress and ended up before the Supreme Court...  |
Salon.com January 17, 2003 Siva Vaidhyanathan |
After the copyright smackdown: What next? Don't despair at the Supreme Court's gift to Disney, says one expert. The fight has really only just begun.  |
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 July 2005 Laura Gordon-Murnane |
Generosity and Copyright: Creative Commons and Creative Commons Search Tools Librarians now have a useful tool they can use to help identify content that patrons might want to use in a podcast, a mash-up, a collage, a video contribution to a blog, a document, a presentation, or whatever.  |
Reason September 2005 Julian Sanchez |
Death of the Auteur Congress passed the Family Movie Act, which established that filtering movies to remove sex or violence or profanity (or any other bits you don't like) doesn't run afoul of copyright laws, as long as no fixed copy of the filtered version is created.  |
AskMen.com Ross Bonander |
5 Things You Didn't Know: Copyright Copyright constitutes one aspect of intellectual property law; here are five things you may not know about it.  |
Information Today June 3, 2002 Wallys W. Conhaim |
Creative Commons Nurtures the Public Domain Creative Commons is a new nonprofit organization that develops alternative approaches to handling copyright licensing and encouraging contributions to the public domain within the framework of the current copyright system.  |
IEEE Spectrum January 2013 Chris Thompson |
Harvard's Alternative to Google Books Universities launch a digital public library which will archive every book in the public domain and offer them online to anyone. The library's prototype is expected to launch this year.  |
Information Today August 2005 Dan Duncan |
Intellectual Property -- Copyright Tug of War Broadcasters and movie makers worry as court rulings and new technologies threaten their control over copyrighted material..  |
PC World February 2005 Tom Spring |
The (Movie) Empire Strikes Back Spooked by powerful PCs and broadband pipes that make it ever easier to copy and share films, the movie industry is expanding its legal and legislative offensive against perceived threats.  |
Information Today February 2006 K. Matthew Dames |
Intellectual Property: Library Schools and the Copyright Knowledge Gap From digitization projects to interlibrary loan and from electronic reserves to electronic books, copyright law is having an impact on librarianship.  |
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.  |
Information Today June 19, 2014 |
Court of Appeals Keeps Sherlock Holmes in the Public Domain The Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the ruling that the characters in the Sherlock Holmes series created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are in the public domain.  |
Salon.com October 9, 2002 Richard Koman |
Riding along with the Internet Bookmobile Angered by a law that extends copyright terms for 20 years, a crusader named Brewster Kahle wants to use the Internet to make books available to everyone.  |
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.  |
Reason April 2003 Jesse Walker |
Mickey Mouse Clubbed Disney's cartoon rodent speaks out on the Eldred decision. Eldred challenged the Bono Act, which lengthens copyright timespans.  |
CIO May 12, 2011 Grant Gross |
Is Your Domain Safe from Seizures for Copyright Infringement? A group questions the government's process for shutdowns, but corporate sites are likely protected under safe-harbor provisions.  |
PC Magazine November 16, 2005 Nicole Price Fasig |
Film Fracas The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is getting more serious about Internet trading of copyrighted films.  |
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.  |
T.H.E. Journal October 2005 |
Library of Congress Launches Website The Library of Congress has launched a Web site to cover the work of a special independent committee that is recommending changes to section 108 of the Copyright Act.  |
Information Today October 18, 2010 Susanne Bjorner |
Creative Commons Releases Public Domain Mark Creative Commons announced the release of a tool that enables works free of known copyright restrictions to be labeled in a way that clearly communicates that status to the public and allows easy discovery of such works on the internet.  |
Information Today April 16, 2007 |
Stanford Launches Copyright Renewal Database The database is designed to be a tool for anyone researching the copyright status of books.  |
PC Magazine September 21, 2004 Sebastian Rupley |
Say Again? In a controversial move, Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) have introduced a bill, called the Inducing Infringements of Copyrights Act of 2004. The bill is aimed at P2P file sharers.  |
PC World August 2003 Frank Thorsberg |
Consumer Alert: Copy Controls Crackdown Multimedia lovers find themselves caught in a digital vise these days, as Hollywood tightens its copyright controls on movies, games, and music on DVDs and CDs -- most recently squeezing customers accused of copyright infringement in court. Technology is starting to offer some relief, though.  |
CIO August 1, 2003 Radcliffe & Rosen |
Patent, Copyright and Trade Secret -- What's the Difference? - The intellectual property in software can be protected three ways: patents, copyrights and trade secrets.  |
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.  |
Reason November 2004 David G. Post |
Free Culture vs. Big Media In the book Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, author Lawrence Lessig leads the charge to retake the public domain.  |
Information Today March 25, 2013 George H. Pike |
A 'Total Victory' for the First Sale Doctrine from the Supreme Court In a powerful and conclusive opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that copyright's First Sale doctrine applies to all legal copyrighted works regardless of where they are manufactured.  |
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...  |
Linux Journal July 2001 Lawrence Rosen |
Copyright Confusion Do I need to put a copyright notice on my software?... Can a software license restrict my ability to use software?...  |
Information Today January 30, 2012 |
CCC and MPLC Partner for New Corporate Movie License The Motion Picture License is a companion to CCC's Annual Copyright License, which gives knowledge workers the freedom to legally share content with each other while respecting the rights of copyright holders.  |
PC Magazine July 18, 2008 Sascha Segan |
Copyrights--and Wrongs Endless copyright terms don't promote creativity, they stifle it.  |
InternetNews April 20, 2005 Roy Mark |
Content-Skipping Bill Headed For Law Lawmakers approve legislation to permit companies to sell filtering technology that skips ads, violence and obscene content in movies.  |
Reason July 2001 Mike Godwin |
Copywrong Why the Digital Millennium Copyright Act hurts the public interest...  |
InternetNews September 10, 2009 |
Lawmakers Probe Google Book Search Google's controversial digital book project saw another wave of public scrutiny this morning, this time in the form of a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the competitive implications of its landmark settlement with authors and publishers.  |
Salon.com August 18, 2000 Damien Cave |
DeCSS judge: Code isn't free speech MPAA president Jack Valenti cheers the decision. Next stop: Appeals court.  |
T.H.E. Journal October 2003 |
Are You Breaking the Law? Copyright guidelines for video streaming and digital video in the classroom  |
InternetNews November 30, 2004 Roy Mark |
Congress Slashes Hollywood's Copyright Wish List Revised legislation drops controversial copyright provisions supported by the movie and recording industries.  |
Macworld February 2001 Philip Michaels |
Copyright Program Simplifies Paperwork Official Copyright 1.5 is a great source of copyright information, offering a tutorial on copyright issues and an efficient search feature that helps you find the right form. But the registration process is where Official Copyright really earns its keep...  |
New Architect November 2002 Bret A. Fausett |
Minds of Their Own Copyright protection flags violate our right to fair use.  |
InternetNews November 11, 2005 Roy Mark |
Public Knowledge Pans AG's Copyright Proposal Digital rights group Public Knowledge picks apart legislation that puts copyright theft in criminal code.  |
InternetNews July 18, 2007 David Needle |
Law Group Trying To 'Embarrass' Google Over Posts The National Legal and Policy Center announced it has evidence of pirated movies being hosted on Google Video.  |
InternetNews August 7, 2007 Nicholas Carlson |
Songsters Join Fight Against YouTube The National Music Publishers' Association will join the Football Associate Premier League's case against YouTube.  |
Reason June 2000 |
Controlling Student Bodies Letters on Alan Charles Kors's "Thought Reform 101" article on multiculturalism and indoctrination on the college campus.  |
InternetNews February 6, 2004 Jim Wagner |
SCO Wants Copyright Damages in Linux Claim The battle over Linux gets down to the heart of the growing dispute: copyright.  |