The Boston Public Library is holding a panel discussion on the Google Book Search Settlement called Expanding Access to Books: Implications of the Google Books Settlement Agreement on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at 6 pm:
Speakers:
* Daniel Clancy, Engineering Director, Google Books
* John Palfrey, Henry N. Ess III [...]
The Berkman Center is also holding a workshop called “Google Books Search Settlement Open Workshop: Alternative Approaches to Open Digital Libraries” on Friday July 31, 2009 at the Harvard Law School:
“The proposed Google Book Search settlement creates the opportunity for unprecedented access by the public, scholars, libraries and others to a digital library containing millions [...]
It’s the lawsuit for which some members of the copyright law world have been waiting: how much text in links on news sites is too much?
GateHouse Media, Inc., is suing The New York Times Co. to find out. Since many news sites, including aggregators like Yahoo! and Google News, link to news stories on other [...]
From Berkman’s event email:
“12/09, 12:30 PM ET, Berkman Center Conference Room
RSVP is required by noon on Monday, 12/08 (rsvp at cyber.law.harvard.edu).
Topic: Developing A Self-Learning Distance Program on Copyright for Librarians
Guest: Berkman Fellow Melanie Dulong de Rosnay
Copyright for Librarians http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/copyrightfo…) is a project developed at the Berkman Center in partnership with eIFL.net (Electronic Information for Libraries), aiming at [...]
At the Coachella music festival in April, Prince performed Radiohead’s song Creep. As fans often do, many posted videos of the performance to the video site YouTube. Because of the copyright issue of Prince performing Radiohead’s song without the appropriate legal rights, Prince’s record label censored the videos on YouTube. Radiohead hasn’t even been able [...]
With a title like that, I can only think what Jonathan Zittrain wrote in his book must be grim because otherwise, we wouldn’t want to stop it.
One of the first things Zittrain said after taking the mic is that he used to title things poorly. I think that was in reference to something else, not [...]
Gah. Here’s yet another talk I’ve known about for a while, meant to blog earlier, and forgot to do it. My apologies. I’m not doing so well this year, am I?
Lawrence Lessig speaks in the Ames Courtroom in Austin Hall at Harvard Law School on Friday, April 4, at 5 pm. It will be webcast, [...]
“Copyright is a very big issue in the legal world today, but in the business world, when you talk to consumers about protecting copyrights, it’s a dead issue. It’s gone. If you have a business model based on copyright, forget it,” opined Gerry Faulhaber, a Wharton School of Business professor at the University of Pennsylvania [...]
Finding this note on Wendy Seltzer’s weblog about a video about a Web 2.0 bubble getting removed from YouTube because of a copyright claim is like a one-two punch for the scratchpad. Someone showed me the video at work a while ago and I’ve been meaning to share it with you. (Google, Ask, nor I [...]
Nicholas Carroll has published a book called Law of the Blog: a blogger’s guide to copyright, defamation, trademarks and other online legal issues:
http://www.law-of-the-blog.com/index.html
Link via What I Learned Today:
http://www.web2learning.net/
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