I’m at the Students for Free Culture conference, catching up with old friends — including the current leaders of Florida Free Culture, which I realized is 5 years old this month. This morning a phrase popped into my head that I’d never heard before, but could be valuable to the free culture movement going forward: [...]
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OA + POD + competition?
Here’s a question I thought of recently. I’ve asked a few smart people and none of them were sure of the answer, either, so:
There’s a bit of buzz about OA + POD (open access + print-on-demand) as a model for books, particularly for small scholarly publishers like university presses. Consider the following: a book published [...]
Google Books Settlement: Now featuring me
I’ve blogged twice about the Google Books Settlement (here and here), in addition to following it at considerable length on Open Access News. Now, I’m part of it!
A footnote in Pamela Samuelson’s objection tipped me off:
Most other signatories [to the brief] … are members of the Author Subclass by virtue of the book-bound copies of [...]
Nitpicking the Google Books Settlement 2.0
I previously posted on the Google Books Settlement, avoiding the well-trod ground and focusing on points that were salient but hadn’t received much discussion. Now that there’s a new draft of the proposed settlement, I’ll do the same:
The revised settlement cuts out a huge swath of international works. There’s no legal reason for this, since [...]
Scholarly publishers shake down a copy shop
A group of scholarly publishers — Blackwell, Elsevier, Oxford University Press, Sage, and Wiley — last week won a judgment against a Michigan copy shop for assisting students in copying course packs. The students were copying articles from scholarly journals and chapters from scholarly books for assigned readings in their college classes.
A student wanting a [...]
A few thoughts on the Google Books Settlement
So much ink has already been spilled on the topic of the Google Books Settlement that I won’t dwell on it too much. I do, though, want to point out a few issues that haven’t been getting much play in the discussion:
The settlement only applies to books which are in copyright as of January 5, [...]
Australia gets it right: going beyond just lawyers
From Australia’s Review of the National Innovation System, released last fall:
[I]ntellectual property policy is being managed as a legal issue, whereas although this area like any other must operate through the legal system, intellectual property policy is most fundamentally an aspect of economic policy. … [T]he consideration of policy with regard to both [copyrights and [...]
LOC preserving legal blogs
Following on my recent post about preservation for scholarly blogs (and see Dorothea Salo’s take), today I found this (via techPresident):
The Law Library of Congress began harvesting legal blawgs in 2007. The collection has grown to more than one hundred items covering a broad cross section of legal topics.
Questions:
What are the criteria for inclusion [...]
