• Posts Tagged ‘copyright’

    Creative Commons Issues an Update to its Copyright License Suite

    by  • December 2, 2013 • Politics & Law • 0 Comments

    After more than two years of community discussions and many drafts, the nonprofit Creative Commons has released a new version of its popular copyright license suite. These licenses allow rightsholders to release some of the exclusive rights associated with copyright while retaining others, in a way that’s easy for re-users, indexable by computers, and...

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    Memo on the Use of Screenshots in Game Studies Scholarship

    by  • November 15, 2013 • Politics & Law • 0 Comments

    pong undead!!!I asked Christopher Ogino, who was my summer research last year, to look into the question of whether screenshots of video games used in academic publications would constitute fair use under United States copyright law.  His conclusion was, generally, “yes.”  I’m posting his Memo here because I believe there is some confusion about this issue and I haven’t found much else available on the Internet that addresses the fair use issue so comprehensively.

    Get the memo @ the RIIPL Blog.

    Warner Bros. Sent UNH A ‘Cease And Desist’ Order About A Popular ‘Harry Potter’ Literature Course

    by  • November 15, 2013 • Books, Politics & Law • 0 Comments

    Harry Potter booksA summer course at the University of New Hampshire that uses the Harry Potter series to teach young students grammar and reading skills has prompted a cease and desist order from Warner Brothers, local CNN station WMUR reports.

    While educational use of copyrighted works is legally allowed, Warner Brothers “doesn’t want people to think it sponsored the class,” according to WMUR. In the past, the course has been titled “Harry Potter as Storytelling” and is targeted at students from fourth to eighth grade.

    Read the full article @ BusinessInsider.com.

    The eBook Copyright Page Is Broken

    by  • October 7, 2013 • Politics & Law • 0 Comments

      The process of digitizing a printed book involves much more than the conversion of ink on paper to bits in a file. Functional aspects of the book must be mapped to digital equivalents. Thus we have tables of contents and indices that turn into hyperlinks and spine files, and page numbers that turn...

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    Google makes case for Google Books scanning as ‘transformative’ fair use

    by  • August 30, 2013 • Books, Politics & Law, Tech • 0 Comments

    Is Google’s book scanning practice “transformative”? Google argues that it is, the Authors Guild argues that it isn’t, This could be an important part of determining whether Google scanning all those books in violation of copyright could be considered a “fair use.” It follows on the heels of the appeals court decision back in...

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    Lessig battles bogus takedowns

    by  • August 23, 2013 • Politics & Law • 0 Comments

    Lawrence LessigCopyright law allows for the fair use of works for purposes such as criticism, comment, teaching, and scholarship. Professor Lessig’s use of the “Lisztomania” clips in his lecture was a classic example of fair use and was not copyright infringement.

    Earlier this year, Liberation Music, which claims to own the license to the Phoenix song, began the process to block the video through YouTube’s copyright infringement system. After the company submitted a DMCA takedown notice, Lessig filed a counter-notice that asserted the clips were fair use. After Liberation Music threatened to sue Lessig, he retracted the notice. But Lessig did not concede this issue. Instead, he enlisted EFF’s help to take Liberation Music to court.

    Read the full article & donate to the cause @ EFF.org.

    Fair use victory in Faulkner case

    by  • July 22, 2013 • Politics & Law • 2 Comments

    “At issue in this case is whether a single line from a full-length novel singly paraphrased and attributed to the original author in a full-length Hollywood film can be considered a copyright infringement. In this case, it cannot,” the judge wrote. Lee Caplin, who oversees the literary estate, said Friday in a telephone interview...

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    Copyright Hell

    by  • July 18, 2013 • Libraries, Politics & Law • 0 Comments

    Over at Pegasus Librarian Iris shares a recent situation in which her university is trying to track down permission to reprint something that probably doesn’t need permission in the first place. Welcome to the eighth level of Hell… But then I found both of their obituaries. So now I have to figure out if...

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