Category: Legal
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Setting them free
I did some searching on Google News and it doesn’t look like this story was widely-distributed, so here’s a link to my local paper’s version. Unfortunately my local paper’s website sucks and this link will most likely disappear within the week, so read it quickly if this interests you. The article profiles three authors who’ve…
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Google Book Search and Exclusivity
I haven’t gotten around to listening to the NPR segment referenced in this post, but Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing points out that Google has stated in writing that none of the contracts they have with libraries to scan their collections are exclusive, meaning the libraries are free to work with other partners and/or work on…
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I have to go to the Euphamism
My colleague Margy keeps a blog for students in a Journalism class she teaches, and just posted about a piece in The Globe and Mail about an author who got nailed for plagiarism, though the admission is only that his book contains “elements [that] . . . closely resemble or are indistinguishable from passages”… I…
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OOF! POW!!! Captain Copyright is dead!
Via Michael Geist’s blog, Captain Copyright is no more. Back in August 2006, just before the CC site was taken down, the Canadian Library Association had “insisted” upon this action. On the former lair of The Captain one will now find the following lament, “We truly hope that there will come a time when the…
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ACRL/ARL Webcast on Author’s Rights
Registration is now open for a special joint Webcast “Author Rights.” Webcast Date: December 14, 2006 Webcast Time: noon to 1 p.m. Pacific, 1-2 p.m. Mountain, 2-3 p.m. Central, 3-4 p.m. Eastern Length: 1 hour ACRL and ARL, through the Institute on Scholarly Communication, along with SPARC are sponsoring a special joint Webcast on author…
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CFP: What is the role of distance education in the implementation of the right to education?
This might be an interesting idea for some of you: The Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, in collaboration with 5 international journals, is launching a call for research and “effective practices” papers to be published in 2008 concerning distance education and the right to education (in particular reference to article 26 of the Universal Declaration…
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Book sales get a lift from Google scan plan
Hmm, looks like I was right (me and every other sane person); publishers are starting to admit that the books that are available through Google Book Search and Amazon’s Search Inside program are <gasp!> actually selling more copies! Some quotes from the Reuters piece: ""Google Book Search has helped us turn searchers into consumers," said…