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)
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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