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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.   |
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. |
BusinessWeek
June 22, 2011
Greg Stohr |
Wal-Mart Case: Another Loss for Trial Lawyers The Supreme Court's ruling is the latest in a series of decisions that make it clear the justices aim to curb mass litigation. |
Information Today
October 28, 2014
George H. Pike |
Appeals Court Reverses Georgia State Fair Use Decision A federal appellate court reversed a fair use finding in favor of Georgia State University in its long-standing copyright dispute with several academic publishers. |
Information Today
October 15, 2001
Gail Dykstra |
Canadian Court Rules in Favor of Freelance Authors For anyone interested in copyright, electronic databases, and freelance writers, there's a new Canadian decision you should know about that promises to be a landmark case... |
The Motley Fool
November 28, 2011
John Reeves |
Judge Blocks Citigroup's Sweetheart Deal Judge Rakoff blocks a deal between Citi and the SEC. |
Registered Rep.
March 15, 2012
Kristen French |
Due Diligence: Step Back Rakoff, SEC-Citigroup Settlement Could Stand Judge Jed Rakoff may have overstepped his authority, said a federal appeals court today. In a procedural decision, the court wrote that the Securities and Exchange Commission has a good chance of overturning Rakoff's rejection of a $285 million SEC settlement with Citigroup. |
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
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. |
Search Engine Watch
October 26, 2009
Ron Jones |
Internet Law 101, Part 2 Learn the basics about copyrighting your Web site content, Web agreements, privacy policy issues, and domain issues including cybersquatting, typosquatting, hijacking, and transfer fraud. |
Information Today
July 10, 2000
Paula J. Hane |
LEXIS Launches New Portal for Small Legal Practices; Other Announcements at ABA LEXIS Publishing has unveiled a new Web portal designed to meet the needs of attorneys in solo and small group practices... |
Information Today
October 7, 2014
Nancy K. Herther |
European Law Works to Move Copyright Into the 21st Century The European Court of Justice ruled that libraries, "for the purpose of research or private study," can digitize works as a legitimate fair use exemption to European Union copyright law, with some specific limitations. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2003 |
Are You Breaking the Law? Copyright guidelines for video streaming and digital video in the classroom |
BusinessWeek
November 18, 2010
Greg Stohr |
Wal-Mart vs. a Million Angry Women Wal-Mart wants the Supreme Court to block a huge gender-bias suit. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 24, 2014
George H. Pike |
First Sale Hearing Raises Questions on Kirtsaeng and Digital Goods A congressional hearing on the future of the first sale doctrine produced great discussion but little consensus on whether Congress should modify the doctrine in response to the Supreme Court's decision. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
August 1, 2011
Jill Wechsler |
The Supremes Shape Pharma A number of important decisions from the Supreme Court will affect drug marketing, research, and regulation |
Information Today
August 9, 2012
Sabrina I. Pacifici |
Lexis Advance Launches New Features That Expand Content and Enhance Search LexisNexis Legal & Professional (part of Reed Elsevier), announced that the applications suite available to users on the company's new generation platform Lexis Advance will continue to evolve and that additional new features will be forthcoming. |
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
August 1, 2002
Lawrence Rosen |
Geek Law: Fair Use Unfortunately, the word fair has colloquial meanings that are different from the legal meaning of the phrase fair use. The law doesn't say that any licensing practice you find distasteful or that you morally oppose can be ignored if to do so would be fair. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
September 26, 2007
Grant Crowell |
Copyright Law: What Search Marketers Should Know (Part 1) Most online copyright infringement issues are best handled by being diplomatic and professional, and can be handled with some simple legal procedures. |
Information Today
December 6, 2012
George H. Pike |
`Window' for Terminating a Copyright Transfer Agreement Opens in 2013 A little-known provision of the Copyright Act of 1976 could wreak further havoc on a publishing industry already struggling to deal with the transition from traditional print formats to digital content. |
Reason
July 2001
Mike Godwin |
Copywrong Why the Digital Millennium Copyright Act hurts the public interest... |
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. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
April 28, 2011
Karen Weise |
U.S. Courts Face Backlogs and Layoffs Prominent lawyers warn that court budget cuts will harm the economy. |
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... |
