Copyright Updates (August 14, 2014)

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)

Copyright Update – January 2014

Hope everyone is having a great winter break.  Nothing enlivens a dull vacation or SNOW DAY more than COPYRIGHT NEWS (am I right?), so here’s a few news bites for you: January 1 was Public Domain Day : Contrary to popular opinion, some things do enter the public domain here in the US — it’s just…Continue Reading Copyright Update – January 2014

Copyright News from 2012 – Nov. 28, 2012

Copyright News from 2012 Laura Quilter, UMass Amherst Libraries Version 1.1.  November 28, 2012   I. Teaching & Libraries Cambridge University Press v. Patton (Georgia State Univ. ereserves) Georgia State University was sued for its ereserves by university presses, bankrolled by CCC.  They changed their policy mid-stream, and because the publishers were only seeking an injunction, not…Continue Reading Copyright News from 2012 – Nov. 28, 2012