On the new Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices, Eriq Gardner at Hollywood Reporter made me LOL: “It’s 1,222 pages of pure beach reading”…Continue Reading Pure beach reading
Curious that California’s AB 609 (public health open access mandate) has a sunset provision. Still, yaay, mostly. http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB609 ……Continue Reading California public health OA mandate
Copyright Updates August 14, 2014 Fair Use Cases Authors Guild v. HathiTrust (2d Cir. June 10, 2014) The Second Circuit, also known as the “copyright circuit”, handed down a significant victory for HathiTrust on June 10, 2014. The short version is that the Second Circuit found that a) full-text indexing is “quintessentially transformative”, hence presenting…Continue Reading Copyright Updates (August 14, 2014)
The Supreme Court denied an emergency stay in the Sherlock Holmes public domain case. See BananaIP.com….Continue Reading SCOTUS denies emergency stay on Sherlock Holmes public domain case
New math prize winner might use prize money to set up #openaccess math journals. Hear, hear! http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/23/us/the-multimillion-dollar-minds-of-5-mathematical-masters.html…Continue Reading open access math journals
I hadn’t seen this #copyright infographic until #CopyrightLibn reviewed it, laying out the good, bad, & wrong. http://blog.lib.umn.edu/copyrightlibn/2014/06/copyright-decisionmaking-flowchart—some-critical-reflections.html…Continue Reading copyright infographic, deconstructed
Scholarly Communication Advisory Thursday, June 12, 2014 link to 2d Circuit opinion by J. Parker I imagine you’ve read some of the many excellent comments, analyses, and news reports about the Authors Guild v. HathiTrust case. I thought I’d summarize briefly for you if you’ve missed some of it, and also try to clear up…Continue Reading HathiTrust Wins on Appeal
supreme court hands fed. cir. another reversal; will they get the message? http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/12-786_664d.pdf … #scotus #patent And a second reversal (in Nautilus) for Fed. Cir. from scotus — also 9-0! http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-369_k53m.pdf … #patent #SCOTUS…Continue Reading Supreme Court reverses Federal Circuit in patent cases — twice in one day
What trumps at WIPO? development agenda based on parent org UN’s mission? or IP maximalism based on WIPO lobbyists? http://www.ip-watch.org/2014/05/24/crisis-at-wipo-over-development-agenda-overall-objectives-in-question/…Continue Reading What trumps at WIPO?
Judge Baer passed away — http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/nyregion/harold-baer-jr-judge-whose-civil-liberties-decisions-drew-criticism-dies-at-81.html … — although known for his civil liberties work, he also wrote a great op. in HathiTrust….Continue Reading Judge Baer passes away