Entries from ©ollectanea tagged with 'public domain'
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...
Wow. I missed this. Too busy.
One of the widgets I have on my Netvibes homepage is a box that allows me to keep certain searches running in multiple search engines, or of different kinds of content (blogs, websites, news sites, technorati -- whatever) and I...
Congressman Lessig?
Lending credibility to the idea that Lessig may run for Congress in a special election to replace the late Congressman Lantos on April 8 (less than 2 months from now), he reportedly is "away with my family this weekend to...
The wisdom of the 14 year copyright term
I have read a number of things lately that reinforce the idea that copyright terms should be shorter to optimally promote the creation of new works. I blogged about two articles just last week, in particular, Rufus Pollock's, Forever Minus...
Is the ratchet really only one-way?
I discovered a couple of papers recently that focused my attention on the public domain, as what's left when copyright gets through with "protecting" a work from, from, well, from what I am not sure any longer, but Bill Patry's...
Pumping up the public domain
Lessig announced today that Carl Malamud had accomplished a coup: Building the Legal Commons (Lessig Blog). He purchased a huge collection of federal case reports and is making them completely pd -- not just CC licensed for some but not...
Public Domain Takes a Hit
Thanks for the introduction, Georgia, and, more importantly, the opportunity to be your guest blogger this month. I can think of no better (or should I say challenging) introduction to the world of blogging than learning it through one of...
I am reminded that we actually "underprotect" works from international perspectives
Bill Patry reports on an interesting, if somewhat esoteric dispute taking place in Spain: The Patry Copyright Blog: Calatrava, Bridges, and Moral Rights. Visit his blog and click on the link to Calatrava's bridge -- incredible art by almost anyone's...
Communia -- new EU public domain project
Peter Suber, Open Access News reports that the EU has just provided 1M euros in funding for a project to explore issues related to the public domain in a digital age. One million euros! That is a lot of money....
This just in... Libraries and library organizations ask Copyright Office to free the registration database
Peter Brantley and Carl Malamud have just asked the Copyright Office to make its retrospective database of registrations of copyright freely available to the public: Carl Malamud Tackles the Copyright Office. The claim is that the information is public domain...
Fightin' the power!
There are a couple of new efforts to place caselaw on publicly-accessible websites and challenge the "duopoloy" of Lexis and Westlaw. This article explains just what Tim Wu (a Columbia law professor) and Carl Malamud (public interest crusader) are up...
Google Book Search Tips -- UMich
University of Michigan is making a 5 page description of "Google Book Search Tips available on their website. Pretty amazing on several levels. The first thing that struck me was the subject of the book search UMich uses to illustrate...
Losing sleep over copyright
I don't often lose sleep over copyright issues anymore. But last night I could not stop thinking about the Copyright Office's new resource for *children.* Please have a look if you haven't already: Taking the Mystery Out of Copyright. There's...
Jean-Noel Jeanneney leaves France's Bibliotheque National
I read with interest today that the President of the Bibliotheque National, Jean-Noel Jeanneney, has apparently been forced to resign:Jean-Noel Jeanneney quitte la presidence de la BnF - Tour de Toile du BBF. You might wonder why this seems important...
Are you my copyright mother?
Copyright genealogy has always been notoriously difficult. With no single, central registry keeping track of what was copyrighted, whether the appropriate formalities were followed, whether the copyright was renewed, whether the author is alive or dead, whether the copyright was...
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