Archive for the ‘Copyright’ Category
Friday, September 11th, 2009
Marybeth Peters, head of the US Copyright Office (part of the Library of Congress), said this in her testimony before Congress yesterday:
The Copyright Office has been following the Google Library Project since 2003 with great interest. We first learned about it when Google approached the Library of Congress, seeking to ...
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
In a recent posting at O'Reilly Radar, Linda Stone discusses recent comments by Brewster Kahle and Robert Darnton on the Google Book Search Settlement. This is especially valuable for its talk about the orphan books problem, discussed by Kahle, as Stone reports, and in comments by Thomas Lord and Tim ...
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
In a brief response letter, author and publisher Marc Aronson writes about the copyright status of pictures that are in publisher partner books in Google Books. Aronson suggests that the rights for pictures are separate from the rights for text. I've corresponded with Aronson to expand on this idea, and ...
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