Category Archives: Copyright

Peter Suber wins ALA’s Patterson Award

Posted on 14 April 2011 by Gavin Baker

I missed the news last week, but I’m extremely pleased to learn that Peter Suber will be the recipient of this year’s L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award by the American Library Association. It’s incredibly well-deserved. Peter, of course, was my … Continue reading →

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Comments on NSF’s Merit Review Criteria

Posted on 15 March 2011 by Gavin Baker

Today, I submitted these comments to the consultation on the National Science Foundation’s Task Force on Merit Review (see). They are provided solely in my personal capacity. What do you see as the strengths and weaknesses of each criterion? The … Continue reading →

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Culture justice: a new frame for free culture

Posted on 13 February 2010 by Gavin Baker

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 … Continue reading →

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OA + POD + competition?

Posted on 10 December 2009 by Gavin Baker

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 … Continue reading →

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Google Books Settlement: Now featuring me

Posted on 3 December 2009 by Gavin Baker

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 … Continue reading →

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Nitpicking the Google Books Settlement 2.0

Posted on 18 November 2009 by Gavin Baker

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 … Continue reading →

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Scholarly publishers shake down a copy shop

Posted on 19 October 2009 by Gavin Baker

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 … Continue reading →

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A few thoughts on the Google Books Settlement

Posted on 8 September 2009 by Gavin Baker

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 … Continue reading →

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