Entries from ©ollectanea tagged with 'copyright'
Time to say goodbye, good luck, and happy trails to you!
I have so enjoyed my two years as the Center for Intellectual Property's Virtual Scholar, and my 20 months as your host here at Collectanea. Over these two years, I've kept an eye on and chatted about copyright matters, heard...
RIP
'Orphan Works' Copyright Law Dies Quiet Death | Threat Level from Wired.com. Ok, it's the market's turn now... Once the players are back on their feet....
I'm doing a workshop for CIP on the process of thinking through copyright infringement risk management
As I discussed last week in my blog post, UT Austin and the CCC's annual subscription license, I have been thinking over these issues of what's fair use in the delivery of digital course materials, and how to identify and...
UT Austin and the CCC's annual subscription license
As CCC announces today, the University of Texas at Austin has subscribed to the CCC's new annual license for the academic year '08-'09. We added this source of authority to our existing legal (fair use) and contractual (databases and transactional)...
More (and more) good news for fair use
Last year I kept being amazed at all the progress I saw in the adoption of more realistic business models by the music as well as other industries. I thought it was a watershed year for loosening up the DRM...
Nice writeup of Center for Internet and Society's fair use win in NY State Court
The Bridgeport decision -- the one that famously proclaimed that there was no such thing as a de minimus use of music recordings (ie, no matter *how small* your use, it needs to be licensed) got some comeuppance yesterday: New...
Really sad, really bad news for the copyright blogosphere
My favorite copyright blogger, copyright guru, articulate, real, "from another planet" brilliant, Bill Patry crushed my spirits this morning: The Patry Copyright Blog: End of the Blog. I understand completely his reasoning for abandoning his blog, and even identify strongly...
Doctorow's CC licensed book, Little Brother, now at 4 weeks on NYT Bestseller List
Speaking of the future, here's a glimpse: Doctorow: First CC-Licensed Work on NYT Best Sellers List/New Graphic Novel - Creative Commons. Hooray for Cory Doctorow, showing the world (again) that free digital can sell (lots of) paper. Mmm. Smell that...
Suing Georgia
I have taken nearly a week to mull over this case that has been buzzing around the blogosphere, around email and even in real life, and I'm glad I did. I think I see it more clearly now than I...
Another attention getter on the campus infringement front
Bill Patry draws our attention to a copyright case in the 9th Circuit's Southern District of California that addresses the liability of individuals in their individual capacity for infringement of copyright: The Patry Copyright Blog: State Sovereign Immunity and State...
Patry's commentary on Posner's "How Judges Think"
I often recommend Bill Patry's copyright blog and I sure hope I haven't worn out my ability to recommend his postings another time, because this one is really, really worth a read: The Patry Copyright Blog: Judge Posner's "How Judges...
Section 108 Study Group Report has been published
Lolly Gasaway and Richard Rudick, Co-Chairs of the Section 108 Study Group, have issued their report after a lengthy period of deliberation over quite a few really thorny issues. Readers may recall that last May, Lolly was our guest blogger...
Semantic web and copyright
Yahoo! announced today that it will be supporting Semantic Web and microformats to improve search results for structured data (as reported in ReadWrite Web: And Nerds Became Kings: Yahoo! to Announce Semantic Web Support - ReadWriteWeb). The Semantic Web has...
See you in DC!
Last year I was not able to attend the CIP's annual conference, but I've caught quite a few of them over the years. This one is special for me, however, because as the Center's Virtual Scholar, I have had the...
Columbia Law School, Fair Use Symposium
There was a fair use symposium held at Columbia Law School last Friday. Rebecca Tushnet posted her notes from 3 of the events: Paul Goldstein's keynote (43(B)log: Paul Goldstein on copyright in context), Panel 2, which looked at the question...
Patry's unbelievable story of dumpster trash copyright crime
I read the story of United States v. Chalupnik, that's right, a criminal prosecution for misdemeanor copyright infringement, for a dumpster diver who came up with thrown away, by their owner, CDs and who was prosecuted for selling them. Selling...
Labels finally admit that p2p business model is legit
It is more than a bit confusing how the major labels can all have recognized only recently that DRM failed as a business model in connection with sales of tracks, and simultaneously have finally embraced p2p supported by advertising, but...
And then there were none
No need to comment really: Sony BMG Plans to Drop DRM. DRM is history in the music biz. Now for books and movies....
Speaking of fair use... did you hear about the Harry Potter fair use case?
Not too much news yet, but Stanford's Fair Use Project has signed on as co-counsel in a case that pits fan site collected information, in published form, against the copyright owners of the Harry Potter series: Fair Use Project to...
Updated Copyright Crash Course launched
I have completed the update to and move of the Copyright Crash Course! (Well, it is never complete, but we have to draw the line somewhere.) It now resides with me at the University of Texas at Austin on the...
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