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Why permissions culture sucks.
Copy-me is a webseries about copyright and the myths of copying. About culture, creativity, the internet and all in between.
Faculty authors who contract to write for some scientific journals could be signing away more than the economic rights to their work, according to a Duke University official.
Many publishing houses don't allow their products to be lent out by digital libraries for fear of piracy. Articles and books by researchers are also affected. Readers are the ones who have to pay the price.
Prior studies demonstrate the shocking unavailability of most books published in the 20th Century, prompting The Atlantic Monthly headline: How Copyright Made
Next in an occasional series on terms of use The headlines over the past two days have been almost giddy: “Since It Can't Sue Us All, Getty Images Embraces Embedded Photos”[1. Joshua Brustein, “Since It Can't Sue Us All, Getty Images Embraces Embedded Photos,” BloombergBusinessweek, posted 6 Mar 2
Version of Record
Access Copyright, the Canadian collection society that licenses publications for use in Canadian educational institutions, increased its...
Explains the whole preprint/postprint/final version copyright thing.
'But the truth is that a copyright includes any work that is derived from the copyrighted work and is “substantially similar.”'
Imagine that you bought a new jacket on Amazon.com and received an email a month later from the manufacturer telling you that you paid the wrong amount for the jacket and that you owe the company several hundred dollars more. This may seem implausible, but for academic libraries that buy DVDs through distributors like Amazon.com, it is a recurring problem: after buying DVDs at retail prices, they get an official-looking email saying they owe more.
Co-presented for the course INLS 720: Metadata Architectures and Applications at UNC SILS. Subsequently, we also presented at the February 2013 meeting of the …
Researchers in institutions of higher education depend on access to the scholarly record, and academic libraries play a critical role in supporting this researc
Educational materials rely heavily on the public domain, which means they tend to be filled with texts written before the mid-1920s.
Techdirt has run several stories about the difficulties students in emerging economies have when it comes to buying expensive study...
Not made by me,found it online,available for download on website
Disney Parody explanation of Copyright Law and Fair Use
Synopsis:
Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University provides this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms.
***Description taken from website***
Video Found at http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/documentary-film-program/film/a-fair-y-use-tale
Disney Parody explanation of Copyright Law and Fair Use
Synopsis:
Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University provides this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms.
***Description taken from website***
Video Found at http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/documentary-film-program/film/a-fair-y-use-tale
Is it ethical or sustainable for businesses to make money from iconic cultural brands without giving anything back?
Where the "copyright reform" stuff might go.
Explains the weirdness that is sound-recording copyright.