May 2013
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“Now with United States government support for maximalist copyright on behalf of...”
– Strong words from the ever-awesome Carrie Russell at ALA in a new blog post, Hooray for Hollywood? Choosing maximum copyright over justice.
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Library Copyright Alliance Applauds Introduction...
For more information, contact: Brandon Butler | 202-296-2296 | brandon@arl.org
The Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) applauds the introduction on May 9, 2013, of H.R. 1892, the Unlocking Technology Act of 2013, by Reps. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Thomas Massie (R-KY), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), and Jared Polis (D-CO). The bill guarantees that legitimate uses of digital works and technologies will not run afoul...
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LCA Comments on TTIP trade agreement →
Trade agreements that deal with copyright are all the rage. So far they’re mostly used as a way to avoid transparent, democratic processes while ratcheting up protection and locking in the worst aspects of US law. In these comments, LCA suggests the US change its approach and instead look to export user-friendly policies like the recent White House open access order, while eschewing efforts...
April 2013
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In GSU Amicus, LCA Invokes Best Practices, Dispels...
The Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) filed a friend of the court brief today in support of Georgia State University in the appeal of Cambridge U. Press et al. v. Mark P. Becker et al. In its brief, LCA argues that GSU’s e-reserves policy is consistent with widespread and well-established best practices for fair use at academic and research libraries, and that these uses have no negative effects on...
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UK museums will have to pay for images where... →
via Emily Goodhand, who asks one of the right questions: what happens to unpaid monies? Another right question: who collects the money? And another one: what does this have to do with incentivizing the creation of new works, since no author would be motivated one way or the other by what happens to her work if she disappears?
I suspect the real issue here is revealed by the one supporter of the...
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“A 10% taking has been held to be lawful even in a developed country such as the...”
– India gets its GSU. The academic protection racket is spreading. Copyright organisation asks colleges to buy licence to photocopy book portions - The Economic Times
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“In Reclaiming Fair Use, Peter Jaszi and I cautioned against using anecdotes from...”
– Pat Aufderheide, responding to Andy Baio’s widely-circulated presentation “The New Prohibition,” in her blog post Fair Use Fearmongering, from Friends?
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“In some cases, the target takes some rash, bold, bizarre initiative to regain a...”
– Herbert Richardson v. the World - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education
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Fancy Face: FYI Scott Turow: I have taught dozens... →
libraryadvocates:
fancylibrarian:
Just finished a discussion with my co-workers regarding The Slow Death of the American Author in which we talked about what we agreed and disagreed about the piece.
E-books are not going away. Authors, publishers, and libraries are dealing with this, some are doing better than others. What I’m realizing that authors/publishers arn’t getting is that for the...
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“One has to wonder whether all the money Access Copyright spends on legal...”
– Indeed.
Access Copyright sues York U over fair dealing policy | Academicalism via @howardknopf.
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“When last I looked, both the FCC, the Copyright Office, and USTR are part of the...”
– Talk about an accidental grand bargain! Kill net neutrality and kill copyright enforcement online, too. Somehow I think Harold is right - that’s not a bargain the NN-haters mean to make.
More: Will Walden Wipe Out DMCA Just To Hack At Net Neutrality? Make My Day! | Public Knowledge
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“Now many public libraries want to lend e-books, not simply to patrons who come...”
– Authors Guild president Scott Turow in his New York Times editorial last Sunday, which many in the publishing world have criticized for its negativity and defensiveness.
He claims to be looking out for the financial and creative interests of new and midlist authors, and yet, as I myself have...
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Digital Music News - 40 Years of Music Industry... →
What scares me is that all the new colors that sprout up in the mid-2000s–the digital downloads, the streams–represent formats that libraries may not even be able to acquire for lending purposes. Indeed, some formats can’t be “acquired” by anyone, per se. Buying the same stuff over and over in every new format was already getting ridiculous, but what now?
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“The launch will showcase some transformative uses [of the archive] that show...”
– Dan Cohen, Executive Director of the Digital Public Library of America, using our favorite t-word to describe what’s possible with a totally digital library. From How the Digital Public Library of America hopes to build a real public commons | The Verge
Stanford U. and edX Will Jointly Build Open-Source... →
infoneer-pulse:
Starting in June, colleges that want to deliver their own massive open online courses will be able to use a free software platform developed jointly by Stanford University and edX, the nonprofit MOOC provider founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The move is a merger of sorts between two previously competing software-development projects...
“On the face of it, librarians and people in the publishing industry have a lot...”
– James LaRue, Give ’em What They Want? (via libraryadvocates)
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LCA Issue Brief: Impact of Kirtsaeng Decision on... →
Jonathan Band explains the recent copyright decision on the scope of the “first sale” doctrine, its context, and its likely consequences for libraries in the US. In short, the Supreme Court’s opinion is a landmark victory that strengthens the legal foundation of library lending, and the Court’s extensive reliance on the Library Copyright Alliance’s amicus brief shows...
March 2013
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DMCA chilling effects: How copyright law hurts... →
infoneer-pulse:
It was hard to believe, but the student insisted it was true. He had discovered that compact discs from a major record company, Sony BMG, were installing dangerous software on people’s computers, without notice. The graduate student, Alex Halderman (now a professor at the University of Michigan), was a wizard in the lab. As experienced computer security researchers, Alex and I...
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“Let the legal analysis follow the pedagogy.”
– Kevin Smith absolutely nails it in his latest column, Making MOOCs Easier.
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“More than 40 countries with over one-third of the world’s population have fair...”
– The Fair Use/Fair Dealing Handbook collects every known fair use or fair dealing statute in the world. Prepared by Jonathan Band and Jonathan Gerafi.
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“The Board believes that the licensing terms in the Taylor & Francis author...”
– Editorial board of the Journal of Library Administration resigns from Taylor and Francis journal over author agreement terms - The Ubiquitous Librarian - The Chronicle of Higher Education via @copycense
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Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons: A Post-Argument... →
Last Thursday we had a lively discussion of this landmark decision, which vindicated the rights of libraries, used book stores, video rental businesses, and everybody who owns copyrighted goods. Check out the video.
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“Courts shouldn’t assume that copyright law was designed to protect...”
– The limits of copyright law - latimes.com
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“While they suggested at its unveiling that they worked with the privacy...”
– Robyn Greene of the ACLU, With CISPA, “It’s all just a little bit of history repeating…”
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Week of Action to Oppose CISPA!
Well, the week is half over, but I hope it’s not too late to jump onto this very important bandwagon with a short blog post explaining why libraries should oppose CISPA - a “cybersecurity” bill that’s moving in the House of Representatives despite massive opposition from the privacy and civil liberties community and a veto threat from the White House (which privacy...
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“Today the US Supreme Court announced its much-anticipated decision in Kirtsaeng...”
– Association of Research Libraries (ARL®) :: Library Copyright Alliance Statement on Supreme Court Decision in Kirtsaeng v…
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Notes from Register Pallante’s “The Next Great...
By Greg Cram, Rights Clearance Analyst, The New York Public Library
On March 4, 2013, Maria Pallante, the 12th United States Register of Copyrights, delivered “The Next Great Copyright Act” at Columbia Law School. In the lecture, Register Pallante reflected on the history of other major comprehensive revisions to United States copyright law. She argued that the time has come for the next general...
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“This is why we find international agreements like ACTA, TPP and now TAFTA so...”
– The Government Might Want To Legalize Phone Unlocking, But Unfortunately It Signed Away That Right | Techdirt
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“We’ve got several boxes of 16mm reels of film from ‘You Bet Your Life’ and we...”
– The Day My Grandfather Groucho and I Saved ‘You Bet Your Life’ - Boing Boing
This is why cultural memory institutions like libraries need broad powers to collect and preserve all kinds of works.
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“Excessively tough copyright law is good for big businesses with large legal...”
– Derek Khanna wants you to be able to unlock your cellphone
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Library Copyright Alliance Reply Comments re... →
The initial comments showed that there is very little consensus around this issue, and hence little hope of a legislative solution. The Copyright Office should focus on supporting fair use, digitizing its records, and other non-legislative solutions. If legislation is pursued, it should be a simple, flexible limitation on remedies where a judge determines that a reasonably diligent search...
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Who Owns the Copyright Industries, and Why It...
The US Department of Justice might have seen the light and decided not to side with foreign publishers against a US public university, but it appears that the US copyright system in general takes the side of foreign companies against the US public.
That’s the inference I draw from an important new report, Foreign Ownership of Firms in IP-Intensive Industries and handy infographic by...
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“But fewer than 20 percent of the American institutions that have formed...”
– The Real Digital Change Agent - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
February 2013
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“Both the new directive and the N.I.H. policy allow delays of a year before...”
– We Paid for the Scientific Research, So Let’s See It - NYTimes.com
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“The GSU case looks like an ordinary copyright infringement case, but only...”
– Ariel Katz, brilliant as ever, on Why the DOJ (Antitrust Division) should intervene in the GSU case.
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“Some will claim that these reforms will hamper artists. But these are the rules...”
– Amazing alternative SOTU address calling for a return to the 28+28 copyright term and registration requirement, from Virginia Postrel.
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“To now argue that this minor statement in support of fair use (which...”
– Mike Masnick, with a harsh criticism of the amicus brief filed by former Copyright Registers Ralph Oman and Marybeth Peters (together with former CO General Counsel Jon Baumgarten).
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“For the first time in a judgment on the merits, the European Court of Human...”
– ECHR BLOG: Copyright vs Freedom of Expression Judgment
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CCUMC Endorses #Librarianscode, Retires Guidelines
Today the Consortium of College and University Media Centers has announced two very important moves to empower its members and the many constituencies that look to them for guidance about proper use of copyrighted media. First, they’ve endorsed the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries as a vision of fair use practice that reflects where their membership currently...
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“The copyright in most of these works is owned by our faculty members, and it is...”
– Kevin Smith at Duke draws the right conclusion from the ongoing outrage of the lawsuit against GSU.
Full blog post: Law and politics in the GSU case | Scholarly Communications @ Duke
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“This situation is as if McDonald’s decided it did not approve of the way...”
– Nice analogy by Nancy Sims in her blog post, What is the government’s interest in copyright? Not that of the public.
January 2013
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“I think that the open access activists will win out.”
– Sir Tim Berners-Lee, in World wide web creator sees open access future for academic publishing
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