The first annual World’s Fair Use Day, in Washington DC, has come and gone, but good stuff about what happened can be found on techdirt and on thecommandline. Also, of course, at www.worldsfairuseday.org.
Excellent article from the Internet Archive on the Orphan Works issue, and whether Google is going to grab the role of Superman-to-the-rescue, and by the way make money from it, or if a more traditional and kosher legislative solution is needed. “At a Computer History Museum event last week in Silicon Valley, [Google's Dan]Clancy suggested [...]
Amazon’s recent remote deletion of the e-books “1984″ and “Animal Farm” (of all things) from peoples’ Kindles, and Jeff Bezo’s apology, really has shoved the DRM vs. First Sale Right issue to center stage. And it’s about time. As brief background, there’s a (rather weak) article in the New York Times. But a much better [...]
I feel like I’ve really put my foot into yet another soggy area, e-communications. The laws of unintended entanglements are in full swing. A few years ago we noticed that we were having trouble getting our emails through spam filters. We wanted to use HTML email because it is prettier and people enjoy reading it [...]
At last fall’s MCN conference, and again at Museums on the Web this spring, I spoke about work that the Jewish Women’s Archive is doing to set up its own repository using open source software. The basic repository we built uses Fedora with the lightest interface imaginable (ActiveFedora)–all we could afford on our own–and is [...]
An excellent article by Kassia Kroszer on Booksquare nicely sums it all up (saving me a heck of a lot of time); here’s just one excerpt: “If the settlement is approved, then Google owns lots and lots of readers. We’re locked into the Google service if we want the best possible search results. Yet our [...]
The dust from this week’s “amazonfail” brouhaha has settled, but the issue at stake hasn’t been. There’s a very good analysis at Bookoven and another at Techcrunch. But the best I’ve seen is on Vroman’s (the legendary Pasadena bookstore) blog: By now, you’ve probably heard all you care to hear about Amazon’s incredibly stupid decision [...]
Just in case you weren’t entirely sure that sanity in the world of digital media is an endangered species, read up not only on the Google Book Search settlement, but the Amazon Kindle text-to-speech copyright infringement claim: Yesterday, hundreds of people gathered in front of the headquarters of The Authors Guild in New York City [...]
Yes, we can. How awesome. http://www.whitehouse.gov/copyright/ “Copyright Notice “Pursuant to federal law, government-produced materials appearing on this site are not copyright protected. The United States Government may receive and hold copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise. “Except where otherwise noted, third-party content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution [...]
There’s something for everyone in this Presidential campaign. Now McCain is being sued for copyright infringement. “Last week, Jackson Browne’s management began receiving emails from people who wondered why the legendary singer and songwriter — an Obama supporter who doesn’t allow his songs to be used in advertisements of any kind — would permit his [...]
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