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…
Tag: copyright
Figuring out if a work is renewed can be a tricky business. The only official records of renewal are held by the Copyright Office in…
A new development in the increasingly controversial war against alleged copyright infringement is raising eyebrows in Sweden. Police raided Undertexter.se yesterday, a site which indexes…
A gorilla sculpture dressed in a famous Freddie Mercury costume has been removed from Norwich city centre after a charity claimed the animal’s suit breached…
Abstract: A random sample of new books for sale on Amazon.com shows three times more books initially published in the 1850’s are for sale than…
A keynote presentation by Cory Doctorow at Mini Maker Faire Meetup on Sunday, 7th July 2013.
Jennifer Nelson is my hero! The song “Happy Birthday to You” is widely credited for being the most performed song in the world. But one…
Jim Fruchterman, founder of the NGO Benetech, writes in frustration from the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, where the US Trade Representative is scuttling a…