Head of Image Resources & Copyright Management for the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Chair, MCN Intellectual Property SIG. Holds degrees in Fine Art and Art History. Has worked in a museum for way too many years. Is not a lawyer. Is not sure how she got into this copyright business, nor how to get out of it, but finds it fascinating and safer than windsurfing.
From the “You’ve Got To Be Kidding, This is 2010, Isn’t It?” department: “A comic book adaptation of James Joyce’s notoriously challenging epic Ulysses is now available on the App Store, but only after Apple demanded cuts. Rob Berry and Josh Levitas launched the ambitious webcomic version of the classic novel, one of the most [...]
I was waiting for it. It was inevitable. Now it’s happened. GBS freaks (followers of the Google Books Settlement story) like me will recall that the legal challenge to Google’s galactic-size book scanning project was (originally) not so much about how Google would or could use the scanned data, but the fact that Google was [...]
Now it’s official: long copyright terms stifle creativity. If The Economist says so, it must be true: “Why the rules on copyright need to return to their roots.” Food for thought: the original term of copyright in the US was 14 years, renewable for another 14. Techdirt brings up a related idea: “Fair Use Is [...]
There’s a pretty good article in Newsweek on the issue of privacy, proposing the almost obvious idea that privacy is the new online currency, but putting it very well: The genius of Google, Facebook, and others is that they’ve created services that are so useful or entertaining that people will give up some privacy in [...]
I have just learned that today, March 14, is Pi Day. (And Einstein’s birthday, while we’re at it.) Never knew this particular treat existed. And I love odd holidays. Yet another excuse to celebrate! Others may eat pie (apparently an authorized celebratory food), but I intend to have 3.14 beers. Lots of stuff at the [...]
“The Day Against DRM will unite a wide range of projects, public interest organizations, web sites and individuals in an effort to raise public awareness to the danger of technology that restricts users’ access to movies, music, literature and software; indeed, all forms of digital data. Many DRM schemes monitor a user’s activities and report [...]
The First Sale doctrine is one of those modest little sub-paragraphs buried in the copyright law whose importance far outweighs its length. It says, in brief, that you own what you’ve bought. Couldn’t be more obvious, right? Think again. There’s a reason it ended up in the copyright statute. Vernor v. Autodesk is a case [...]
Picked this one up on Ars Technica: “Copyright Reform Act tries fixing fair use with seven words.” Which is intriguing, considering the oceans of verbiage expended on the subject in the last few years. The CRA [Copyright Reform Act] is a new project from Public Knowledge, with much of the heavy lifting being done by [...]
I don’t often recommend reading court documents (boring!) but this one is worth it. As Techdirt put it, “You gotta love snarky legal filings.” The whole enchilada is available here. The North Face is suing the parody clothing company The South Butt for trademark infringement, giving rise to some erudite logo design analysis: The “half [...]
Ultra cool. “A legitimate attempt to push storytelling boundaries by quietly superimposing a supplemental, moving layer atop a pre-existing printed narrative.” “”The set-up [a book, a lamp, and a laptop] seems perfectly harmless at first sight. But as soon as you open the book under the lamp … the pages take on new animated and [...]
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