Category: fair use
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The Authors Guild Does Not Speak for Academic Authors
Academic authors are being asked to stand by an watch as the Authors Guild litigates against their wishes and interests, but supposedly on their behalf. This hubris is not exactly unprecedented. 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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Global Research Network on Copyright Flexibilities in National Legal Reform Meeting in DC
I am in DC today at the Global Research Network on Copyright Flexibilities in National Legal Reform Meeting. Copyright reform is under active discussion at the national level in numerous countries. The…
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There is a great story today on io9.com illustrating just why automatic copyright filtering can never be a complete solution to online copyright issues. In short, Dumb robots, programmed to kill any…
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Australia, Copyright and the Digital Economy
The Australian Law Reform Commission has just published a thought provoking issues paper on Copyright and the Digital Economy, ALRC Issues Paper 42, August 2012. The ALRC has been charged with considering…
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Authors Guild Unable to Silence Amici
The Judge presiding over Authors Guild v. Google granted leave to file for the Digital Humanities brief and an amicus brief by the American Library Association, the Association of College and Research…
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Is Fair Use a Viable Defense for Stolen Photos?
A majority of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals does not seem to think so, thus raising the question of the extent to which copyright allows newsworthy public figures to control their…
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A new study by Patricia Aufderheide, Peter Jaszi, Katie Bieze and Jan Lauren Boyles, explores the problems that journalists face engaging with copyright and employing the doctrine of fair use. The study…