Month: October 2012
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The Future of Orphan Works Reform
I am pleased to be attending the In Re Books conference at New York Law School. The conference is dedicated to the future of the book. My presentation is available here: The…
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HathiTrust and the Future of Orphan Works
The U.S. Copyright Office is taking another look at the problem of orphan works under U.S. copyright law. As the Copyright Office notice explains that the Copyright Office is “interested in what…
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HathiTrust Wins on Fair Use, and just about everything else
Landmark Fair Use Win Yesterday, District Judge Harold Baer, Jr., handed down his decision in Authors Guild v. HathiTrust, a case that spins out of the long-running Google Books dispute. The decision is…
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Google Book Search: Digital Humanities still needs answers
Google has settled with the publishers, but not the Authors Guild. This is good news for the Digital Humanities because it means that we may still get a substantive ruling on the…
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Google Book, Settled and Unsettled.
According to Reuters, Google and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) have reached a settlement in the long-running Google Book Search Litigation. Details remain sketchy. The settlement does not affect Google’s current…