Archive for the 'Copyright Law' Category

Expanding Access to Books: Implications of the Google Books Settlement Agreement Boston Public Library July 21 6 pm

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

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 [...]

Google Books Search Settlement Open Workshop: Alternative Approaches to Open Digital Libraries July 31 Harvard Law School

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

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 [...]

Lawsuit to Decide Fair Use of Links on News Sites

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

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 [...]

Tuesday’s (12/9) Berkman Lunch about Copyright for Librarians Classes

Friday, December 5th, 2008

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 [...]

YouTube Video of Prince Performing Radiohead’s Creep Censored Because of Copyright

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

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 [...]

Jonathan Zittrain: The Future of the Internet & How to Stop It

Friday, April 18th, 2008

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 [...]

Lawrence Lessig Speaks in Ames Courtroom at Harvard, 4/4, 5 p

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

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, [...]

Is Copyright Dead?

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

“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 [...]

Popular Web 2.0 Video Altered Because of Copyright Claim

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

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 [...]

Law of the Blog: a Blogger’s guide to copyright, defamation, tradmark…

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

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/
Posted by Rich


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