The link below is to an article that explores the possible change to Australia’s fair use laws.
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http://publishingperspectives.com/2014/02/explaining-australias-fair-use-publishing-conundrum/
Tag Archives: Copyright
How to read good books for free without breaking the law (sort of)
Not In The Public Domain Yet – Still
The link below is to an article that looks at what could have been in the public domain now, but isn’t.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131231/23434825735/grinch-who-stole-public-domain.shtml
Google Books and Fair Use
The link below is to an article that considers Google’s recent victory in the USA and how fair use will now be considered.
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http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/google-books-victory-widens-the-scope-of-fair-use
Article: Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement
The link below is to an article that takes a look at plagiarism and copyright infringement.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130925/09523724654/difference-between-plagiarism-copyright-infringement.shtml
Article: Copyright Reports
The link below is to an article that takes a look at two stories relating to copyright and piracy.
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http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/copyright-vs-common-sense/
Will copyright be extended 20 more years? An old debate returns
Congress is conducting a review of America’s copyright laws, a process that could shape culture and creativity for a generation or more. While the process has so far focused on how to stop piracy, some are asking if Hollywood will try to extend copyright terms once again in order to prevent works like Mickey Mouse from falling into the public domain.
The question came up on the Volokh Conspiracy, a blog popular with legal types, where a law prof proposed starting a pool on whether Congress would extend copyright terms by another 20 years.
While the larger debate has been relatively quiet so far, it could flare up again as it did in the late 1990s when the last 20-year extension led to a bitter legal fight between scholars and librarians on one hand, and Hollywood and the music industry on the other. The entertainment industry ultimately prevailed at…
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Goodreads hit with copyright suit over fan photo
The real villain in the ebooks case isn’t Apple or Amazon — it’s publishers’ addiction to DRM
After much back-and-forth, a verdict came down on Wednesday in the Apple (s aapl) ebooks case: a judge found the company guilty colluding with five of the big six major book publishers in a scheme designed to inflate prices. The publishers (all of whom settled with the government before the trial) have tried to argue in the past that they were forced to cut a deal with Apple because of Amazon’s (s amzn) monopoly — but when it gets right down to it, the real culprit is the DRM lock-in that the publishers themselves pushed for. In effect, they forged the chains that bound them to Amazon in the first place.
My GigaOM and paidContent colleagues Jeff Roberts and Laura Owen have written about the details of the judgement itself, and also about the potential impact on Apple and the ebook business as a whole, but what really interests…
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Article: The Open Library and Copyright
The link below is to an article that takes a look at the Open Library (part of the Internet Archive) and how it appears to be violating copyright rules.
For more visit:
http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/the-internet-archives-open-library-is-violating-authors-copyrights/
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