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Opt in for open access
There’s been much discussion online about Judge Chin’s long-awaited decision to reject the settlement proposed by Google and authors and publishers’ organizations over the Google Books service. Settlement discussions continue (and the court has ordered a status conference for April … Continue reading
Posted in copyright, libraries, online books, open access
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Public Domain Day 2011: Will the tide be turned?
This year’s Public Domain Day, the day on which a year’s worth of copyrights expire in many countries, is getting particular attention in Europe, where events in various European cities commemorate authors who died in 1940, and whose works are … Continue reading
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Journal liberation: A community enterprise
The fourth annual Open Access Week begins on Monday. If you follow the official OAW website, you’ll be seeing a lot of information about the benefits of free access to scholarly research. The amount of open-access material grows every day, … Continue reading
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Journal liberation: A primer
As Dorothea Salo recently noted, the problem of limited access to high-priced scholarly journals may be reaching a crisis point. Researchers that are not at a university, or are at a not-so-wealthy one, have long been frustrated by journals that … Continue reading
Posted in copyright, libraries, open access, publishing, sharing
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Copyright information is busting out all over
Like the crocuses and daffodils now coming up all over our front garden, new copyright registration information has been popping up all over the net lately. As I’ve described in various previous posts, this information can be extremely useful for … Continue reading
Shedding light on images in the public domain
For years, I’ve regularly gotten requests from authors and publishers for licenses to reproduce images in books listed on The Online Books Page, or included in the local collection of A Celebration of Women Writers. Sometimes these requests relate to … Continue reading
Posted in copyright, sharing
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Public domain day 2010: Drawing up the lines
As we celebrate the beginning of the New Year, we also mark Public Domain Day (a holiday I’ve been regularly celebrating on this blog.) This is the day when a year’s worth of copyrights expire in many countries around the … Continue reading
Posted in copyright, online books, open access
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Google Book settlement: Alternatives and alterations
In my previous post, I worried that the Google Books settlement might fall apart in the face of opposition from influential parties like the Copyright Office, and that such a collapse might deprive the public of meaningful access to millions … Continue reading
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Google Books, and missing the opportunities you don’t see
The Google Books settlement fairness hearing is still a few weeks away, but in the last few weeks the deal has been talked and shouted about with ever-higher volume. Still, it wasn’t until the other day, in a House Judiciary … Continue reading
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