01/23/2012 @ 12:00AM
Despite recent lawsuits over e-reserves, digital archives, and orphan works, at a two-hour program at ALA Midwinter, panelists urged librarians to go forth and digitize, that they already have the sturdy legal cover they need to proceed: fair use.
01/20/2012 @ 12:00AM
After what’s being called “the largest online protest in Internet history,” legislators are withdrawing support for the SOPA abd PIPA bills.
01/18/2012 @ 12:00AM
Thousands of Web sites which oppose the controversial “anti-piracy” bills SOPA and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) are protesting against the proposed legislation with a 24-hour blackout.
01/14/2012 @ 12:00AM
In a statement, the White House this week said it would not support any bill that would “inhibit innovation,” for American business and vowed to protect "the openness of the Internet."
01/11/2012 @ 12:00AM
In its first formal response to the lawsuit filed against it by HarperCollins over the e-book publication of Julie of the Wolves, Open Road Integrated Media yesterday announced that it plans to hire Michael J. Boni and Joanne Zack of Boni and Zack in association with Robert La Rocca of Kohn, Swift & Graf, PC.
12/26/2011 @ 12:00AM
HarperCollins filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Open Road Integrated Media over its publication of the e-book edition of Jean Craighead George’s Julie of the Wolves.
12/23/2011 @ 12:00AM
As expected, on Thursday Google filed a motion to dismiss the Authors Guild as an associational plaintiff from the long-running book-scanning case, and also moved to sever the American Society of Media Photographers from its related suit against Google.
12/21/2011 @ 12:00AM
With Congress embroiled in a fight over extending the payroll tax cut, House Judiciary Committee spokeswoman Kim Smith confirmed that Wednesday's scheduled Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) hearing has been delayed. Smith said the committee expected the bill to be taken up again "early next year."
12/19/2011 @ 12:00AM
According to a tweet from House member Darrell Issa (R-CA) the House mark-up of SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act) is scheduled to resume on Wednesday, Dec. 21, at 9 a.m., after an unexpected delay stopped the bill from coming to a vote in the judiciary committee last Friday.
12/16/2011 @ 07:00PM
At a Copyright Clearance Center panel held December 12 at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., Maria Pallante, the register of copyrights, expressed support for the broad strokes of two copyright bills now before Congress—the Senate’s PROTECT IP bill and the recently introduced companion bill in the House, SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act). “Copyright is a tremendous factor in our economy,”
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