copyright

Leaders and Best: University of Michigan and Google Scan Millionth Book

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Not quite sure how I missed this, but apparently U-M’s collaboration with Google to put its works in the public domain online hit a major milestone on Friday: one million books scanned and put online.
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Constitution 2.0

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Ed Foster should leave Info World and do political satire full time:
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Version 2.0
You, the people of the United States of America (herein referred to as “You”), in order to form a more perfect union with your Government (herein referred to as “Government” or “We”), do agree to be […]

Condemned to repeat

Wednesday, October 5th, 2005

Americans are losing the vast majority of their aural history according to a new study commissioned by the library of Congress and the National Recording Preservation Board. on a small scale, we’re all familiar with the problem: what to do with the cases of vinyl and 8-tracks in the garage now that turntables are hard […]

July 11th is International Fair Use Day

Thursday, June 2nd, 2005

Kudos to the guys at [fairuseday.com](http://www.fairuseday.com/)(why not .org?) for a great idea. There don’t seem to be any plans yet, but make your own plans to raise awareness. At least call, fax, or write the appropriate federal, state, and local officials.
> Fair use rights have been under siege for a long time and […]

Child Militia Join the Copyfight

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

This [little piece of news](http://p2pnet.net/story/4976) from p2pnet caught me completely off guard. It seems on Friday [Wired Kids](http://www.wiredkids.org), an advocacy group supposedly dedicated to protecting kids on line–presumably from things like predatory pedophiles–awarded the MPAA with it’s first ever “Doing It Right” award. No one seems to be exactly sure what they’re doing […]

Friends in High Places

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

Pete and Repeat went into a bar…
Apparently the MPAA, no longer content with getting Spanish academics fired, has decided to up the ante. They’ve convinced the Justice Department to start filing criminal charges against organizers of BitTorrent networks. In a press relase pulished to the interestingly named file [starwars52505.htm](http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsreleases/articles/starwars052505.htm), (at least they’re honest […]

Canadian IPs Don’t Turn Over Filesharers..Yet

Friday, May 20th, 2005

And in our continuing coverage international copywrongs:
Canadian copyfighter [Michael Geist](http://www.michaelgeist.ca/) has posted an interesting recap of yesterday’s Federal Court of Appeal decision in Canada, preventing CIRA (Canadian recording industry group) from forcing ISPs to turn over the names of suspected file swappers. While initially haild as a victory for privacy advocates and […]

Why Corporate Cash Shouldn’t Fund Academic Research

Friday, May 20th, 2005

Coming soon to an [RIAA](http://www.riaa.com/)-funded university near you.
Corey Doctorow has [posted](http://www.boingboing.net/2005/05/20/spanish_copyright_so.html) the story of a friend, Spanish copyfighter Jorge Cortell, who was forced out of his teaching position at [Universidad Politécnica de Valencia](http://www.upv.es/menui.html). Yesterday Cory got an email from Jorge, and today Jorge has posted the [English](http://homepage.mac.com/jorgecortell/blogwavestudio/LH20041209105106/LHA20050520091532/index.html). version of his […]

Apple and Open Source: Tigers Just Don’t Change Their Stripes

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

The other day I [took Laurie at TUAW to task](http://www.tuaw.com/2005/05/12/if-you-like-safari-youll-like-shiira#comments) over her suggestion that Apple implement [Shiira](http://hmdt-web.net/shiira/index-e.html)’s “Tab Exposé” feature in Safari:
>> It’s a surprisingly handy feature that I implore Apple to add to Safari itself. Are you listening, Dave Hyatt?
>
> Probably, he is. But here’s an idea: why don’t we encourage people to support […]

Orphan Works Replies

Thursday, May 12th, 2005

For those of you who are just tuning in, orphan works are works of art, music, literature, etc., where the initial copyright has expired, but the copyright is still within the period for renewal if the the artist came forth. They don’t currently enjoy much copyright protection under the law, but at the […]