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Appeals Court Shoots Down Digital Resale in ReDigi Case
In upholding a lower court ruling that ReDigi's attempt to create a service that could legally copy digital files for resale copyright infringement, the appeals court made the sale of used e-books all the more unlikely.
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GSU E-Reserves Case Goes On After Publishers Win Second Appeal
Barring a settlement, the decade-old copyright case could still be far from a conclusion.
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After 17 Years of Litigation, 'Freelance' Writers Finally Collect
Payments of more than $9 million have finally been issued to thousands of freelance writers following the 2014 settlement of a class action case filed in the wake of the landmark Tasini vs. New York Times, the seminal legal battle of the digital publishing era.
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A (Block)Chain Reaction for Publishing
The music, video, and book industries have had metadata problems in common for years—and one solution, blockchain, is a technique publishing could learn from the music business.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2017: It’s Time to Fix Fair Dealing in Canada
Demand for Canadian educational content remains high, however the ongoing supply of Canadian learning resources remains uncertain after a 2012 change to copyright law.
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2017: Concern that Canadian Copyright Disaster Could Spread
The 2012 Copyright Modernization Act in Canada has been a disaster for Canadian educational publishers. But concern over the law’s effects, observers say, is not limited to Canada.
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ALA Honors Jonathan Band with 2017 L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award
Band, a copyright attorney and an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School, is a longtime advisor and representative for the library community.
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KinderGuides Copyright Case Ends, Appeal Unlikely
The closely watched case is now closed after the plaintiffs dropped the claim of willful infringement. Moppet Books, meanwhile, said they are unlikely to appeal the summary judgment in the case.
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Judge Explains KinderGuides Copyright Case Decision
Judge Jed Rakoff needed just 12 pages to dispatch with Moppet Books' claims that their works were protected by fair use.
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Will Ruling in ReDigi Case Open the Door to a Used E-book Market?
That’s the heart of the question now before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, after a lively hearing on Tuesday in the case of Capitol Records vs. ReDigi.
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