Category: fair use
-
No Injunction in Cambridge University Press v. Becker, the Georgia State e-reserves case
Back Story There is an excellent summary of the district court’s decision from May 2012 over at James Grimmelmann’s blog. The abbreviated story is that in April 2008 three publishers (Cambridge University…
-
Great panel at IPSC on orphan works, library digitization and fair use
In “The Orphans, the Market, and the Copyright Dogma” Ariel Katz notes that extended collective licensing (ECL) proposals will do nothing to solve the underlying orphan works problem. Like “Indulgences” ECL solutions…
-
What is at stake in Authors Guild v. Google; Authors Guild v. HathiTrust
Now that the Google Book Settlement is well and truly dead, attention is turning back to the underlying legal controversy. There are many issues in Authors Guild v. Google and the parallel…
-
Authors Guild asks Judge to Ignore the Digital Humanities
Counsel for the Authors Guild have asked the court to deny our motion for leave to participate as amici in the case of Authors Guild v. Google. On Friday August 3, 2012,…
-
Make Me Walk, Make Me Talk, Do Whatever You Please: Barbie and Exceptions, Rebecca Tushnet
Rebecca Tushnet had some interesting things to say at IPSC today about the multiple meanings of Barbie®. She makes an excellent point that trademark defenses will only be accessible to people without…