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Archives & Copyright: Developing An Agenda For Reform starts tomorrow #dh #archivescopyright
Archives & Copyright: Developing An Agenda For Reform This is a one day symposium, co-organised by CREATe and the Wellcome Library. The symposium considers forthcoming changes to the copyright regime in the…
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A word cloud of yesterday’s oral argument re #fairuse and #googlebooks
Just because I can.
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Empirical Studies of Copyright Litigation: Can we rely on PACER’s Nature of Suit coding
I have just posted a new paper titled, Empirical Studies of Copyright Litigation: Nature of Suit Coding (http://ssrn.com/abstract=2330256). The paper investigates reliance on the Nature of Suit coding in the PACER records for empirical…
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Ivan was a large and brilliant man, the world feels like a smaller place without him. Ivan loved to drink, he loved to eat, he loved ideas, he loved his wife and he…
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Who owns the copyright in my Marathon playlist?
I will be running my very first marathon in October this year in Chicago. In connection with the marathon, I am raising money for the American Cancer Society. Almost all of us know someone…
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No adjournment in Authors Guild v. Google. Oral argument is set for Sept. 23, 2013
In an order dated yesterday, the court denied a request for adjournment of the oral argument, saying: The date of September 23, 2013 was set on July 8, 2013, more than five…
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Lessig v. Liberation Music is almost too good to be true
Fair use and DMCA takedowns Lawrence Lessig has written many fine books and articles, played a key role in founding the Creative Commons and worked tirelessly to promote the interests of the…
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Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has just released the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and…
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My #IPSC slides – Copyright & Compulsory Licenses
IPSC 2013 (Matthew Sag) Recent proposals to address library digitization through variations of compulsory licensing raise some important questions about the justification for compulsory licenses, the institutional design considerations that should go…