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Ballot proposals, amendments (friendly and otherwise), coalition building, lobbying, weighted voting formulas, and roll-call votes are not usual features of librarian gatherings. But HathiTrust is …
There has been a period of limbo since Judge Chin rejected the proposed settlement between the Author's Guild/Association of American publis...
It seems I spoke too soon. Only hours after I posted on this site a comment about why the HathiTrust orphan works project should not be controversial came news that the US Authors Guild, joined by similar associations in two other countries and eight individual authors, has filed suit to enjoin Hathi from proceeding with … Continue reading Stop the Internet, we want to get off! →
So these days there are lots of really well-done, useful, free APIs around, especially from Google. The obvious invitation is to use them in your apps. The potential problem is that a free API, whi…
A set of authors and authors' groups has filed suit to stop university …
ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME? What.
The Settlement (in essay form) The Lawsuit (in essay form) ... and that's a good thing. This morning, the Seco...
Breaking up is hard to do, and for the parties in the Google Books litigation a potentially messy breakup looms. Can these factions make enough progress on a revised settlement agreement in the next six weeks to avoid that fate?
(by Peter Hirtle) CLIR has inaugurated a new publication series called Ruminations, and for its first report, it has published an incredibly interesting and important report by John Wilkin. In “Bibliographic Indeterminacy and the Scale of Problems and Opportunities of...
"Open an MP3 of a Lady Gaga track in a text editor and you’ll get a wholly original work of experimental literature—though not one anybody (except possibly Lady Gaga) is likely to be interested in reading." heh.