As a digital repository project expands to provide scholars more access to in-copyright materials, what does it mean for the future of orphan works?
Following high-profile incidents involving JSTOR content, archive takes "first step" toward more access options for independent scholars.
Library teams with University of Michigan and University of Wisconsin in bid to make more full-text electronic works available.
Reporting on the ten-year-old National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), LC spells out its overall goals, including copyright reform and digital-preservation tax incentives for private institutions.
LJ talks to the public information advocate and founder of Public.Resource.Org about barriers to access, trends in copyright, potential legal fixes, and where libraries fit into the puzzle.
Filtering is collection developmentFirst decision to back full filteringDissent points to need for disablingRural countyState Librarian: it's about community needs, not free speech(Updated May 7 with statement from Washington State Librarian Jan Walsh) In a More...
Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesGSU claims sovereign immunityIs checklist skewed toward fair use?Settlement may be possibleIn a significant development-or perhaps a last gasp-both sides in a contentious legal battle over electronic course More...
Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesSoftware vendor appeals ruling over secondhand salesClaims it has sole authority to license prodect,not sell itLibrary organizations cite role of longstanding copyright lawSeveral library organizations (American Library Association, More...
Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesFrom Publishers Weekly:In an 8-0 ruling, the United States Supreme Court this week reversed a Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that voided a 2005 a settlement in More...
Go back to the Academic Newswirefor more storiesManual addresses theoretical and practical issuesDeals with no-permission-needed scenariosOffers case studies, sample check lists, agreementsAddressing the "great uncertainty associated with the copyright implications of digitization initiatives," Cornell University More...
(For a set of links, go to LibraryJournal.com/GoogleBookSearchSettlement.)From Publishers Weekly:Afederal judge overseeing the approval process for the Google Book Search settlement has rejected an attempt by the Internet Archive (IA) to intervene in the action. More...
Google and Sony announced in March a deal that would make some public domain titles scanned by Google available on the Sony Reader. Financial details were not disclosed; however, major media outlets framed the deal More...
Times article may be sign of changing public attitudesMore amicus briefs comingGoogle blames MicrosoftGo back to the Academic Newswire for more stories(For a set of links, go to LibraryJournal.com/GoogleBookSearchSettlement.)While much mainstream news coverage of the More...
Kennedy School joins FAS and Harvard LawMandates identicalPolicy includes opt-outGo back to the Academic Newswire for more stories(This article first appeared in the March 17 issue of the LJ Academic Newswire.) The faculty of the More...
Go back to the Academic Newswire for more storiesNIH policy made permanentLibrary community supportiveConyers bill would repeal policy(This article first appeared in the March 12 issue of the LJ Academic Newswire.)Public access to research just More...
NIH mandate to bepermanent?Conyers' challenge loomsCopyright issue?Go back to the Academic Newswire for more storiesWhen it comes tolegislation,awordor phrase can make a big difference.However, one word ("thereafter") tucked into current federal appropriations bill, now before More...
Big Paper?WasHR 801's road to reintroduction paved with publisher money?Conyers rebukes Lessig & Eisen; Eisen rebukes ConyersGo back to the Academic Newswire for more storiesSure, times are tough, but can you really buy John Conyers More...
End print law journalsGreater access to scholarshipSupported by more than 30 top law schools, lawlibrariansGo back to the Academic Newswire for more stories(This article appeared in the March 3 issue of the LJ Academic Newswire.) More...
Case will be heard in fallIssues still far from resolutionNo copyright, no peace?Go back to the Academic Newswire for more stories(This article first appeared in the March 3 issue of the LJ Academic Newswire.) In More...
Go back to the Academic Newswire for more storiesChairman of AAP offers predictionsAmazon and Google gain duopoly?Revenue stream from libraries?(This article first appeared in the February 26 issue of the LJ Academic Newswire. For a More...
Go back to the Academic Newswire for more storiesJeff Jarvis, founding editor of Entertainment Weekly and journalism professor at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism, is probably best known as a More...
In 2008, some of the world's great research libraries created HathiTrust, a unified, comprehensive digital collection of the published record. As the Google settlement winds its way forward, many will surely wonder how HathiTrust will More...
In 2004, when five libraries inked the first book-scanning agreements with Google, it seemed like the company was offering a public service. Google's plan to digitize the great libraries of the world conjured images of More...
Go back to the Academic Newswire for more storiesFederal judge grants preliminary approvalHearing June 11, 2009More support from outside library community(This article first appeared in the November 20 LJ Academic Newswire.) For such a broad, More...
New guide via ARL and ALAIn-copyright books: 20% displayPublic Access Service: one terminal for 4000 FTEGo back to the Academic Newswire for more stories(This article originally appeared in the November 18 issue of the LJ More...
Do your patrons ever ask you why only a portion of the text from an ebook may be copied and printed? Do students want to know why certain databases can be accessed in the library More...
Go back to the Academic Newswire for more storiesCritics question library accessBrantley suggests more free terminalsLA Times takes up libraries causeWhile the Google Book Search settlement has prompted much debate, commentators have only begun to More...
Future policies likeNIH would be barredWitness list announcedDraft text posted, but bill not yet introducedThe public access battle lines have been drawn: if passed, the Fair Copyright in Research Works Act, set for a Congressional More...
What about digital ILL?Internet Archive a 'cloud'; over deliberationsCongressional hearings may be comingThis spring, the Section 108 Study Group, chartered in 2005 to inform legislative changes to update the Copyright Act's exception for libraries and More...
(A preview of an editorial appearing in LJ's May 1 issue.) A stealth attack on U.S. freedoms-intellectual, academic, and personal-came to a halt in early April, at least for the time being, when quick action More...
Recommendations intended to 'provide a basis on which legislation could be drafted and recommended to Congress.';Report recommended the Section 108 exception be extended to museumsOther major issue concerns libraries' ability to capture 'publicly disseminated online More...
3000 titles will be availableNo DRM means compatibility with iPods, iPhonesLibraries will remind patrons of copyrightFor years, librarians and patrons have complained that the most popular digital audio player, the iPod, was incompatible with the More...
Hopes were raisedPlaintiffs thought copyright extension warranted reviewSuit brought by OCA foundersThe U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal of Kahle v. Ashcroft, brought by Internet Archive and Open Content Alliance founders Brewster More...
The Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) last week issued a study suggesting that "fair use dependent industries" contributed more than $4.5 trillion in annual revenue for the United States in 2006, roughly one sixth More...
After two ineffective years of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) policy that requested researchers to deposit copies of their final papers in PubMed Central (PMC), both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate More...
Google and the 12 universities in the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) announced today that they have entered into an agreement to digitize up to 10 million bound volumes. In one swoop, the deal represents More...
Two academics at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society have called for the university to resist the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) legal blitz against college students, saying such cooperation undermines More...
The Wall Street Journal reports that publishers are lining up to make a buck off the tenth anniversary of Princess Diana's death. Leading the pack is Random House with Tina Brown's The Diana Chronicles, in More...
Say Swets, and most librarians immediately think subscription agent, but in the past few years the company has expanded its horizons, most recently incorporating MuseGlobal's Content Mining tool into its federated search service, SwetsWise Searcher. More...
