Kindle disclosure, tough new French copyright law, CNN on e-book piracy, free Kindle books,...
“Amazon could pay for Kindle sales coyness.” That’s the Reuters headline about Amazon’s refusal so far to disclosure unit numbers despite the feverish hype. Kindle sales are just just...
Food and copyrights don’t mix
It’s lunchtime in the central and eastern US, so this is a good time to post a couple of interesting copyright cases relating to food. First of all, in Germany it...
Righthaven domain name sells, lawyer forgets to come to court
Although not a lot can top the last Righthaven story in my book, a couple of post-scripts that have come up since then. First, the Righthaven.com domain name has been sold...
Important copyright case appealed to Supreme Court
Techdirt has a summary of the legal affairs surrounding the Golan copyright case, which has been bouncing back and forth between district and appeals courts and has finally officially been...
Authors Guild finds two more authors of “orphaned works”
From the Authors Guild blog:
Yesterday, we began an effort to dig in more deeply to the HathiTrust list of “orphan works” candidates.
These two jump out as a bit too easy.
Wikipedia does...
Morning Roundup: A journalist’s guide to navigating fair use of copyrighted material
Self-Published eBooks Account for 12% of Entire Digital Market (Good e-Reader)
Bowker Market Research is reporting today that self-published eBooks now account for 12% of the entire digital publishing market. In some cases,...
New study: Copyright extension makes works unavailable; public domain lets them flourish
Does copyright help keep works available, by giving the creators incentive to make sure it’s around to be purchased so they can get money? Or does it hinder keeping works available,...
Hollywood morality at work
Check out Now Showing: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Americans: Exporting the Wrong Picture--Martha Bayles' article in the Washington Post on the damage that Hollywood sleaze is doing to...
Booklamp and discoverability: Nice try, but still has serious shortcomings
A random comment on an IRC channel today recalled my attention to Booklamp, and the Book Genome Project, which we’ve mentioned a few times in years gone by. It’s been a...
Copyright battles: Publishers group vs. Google–and a pro-rights-holder register of copyrights
The Association of American University Presses is claiming that Google's library project violates U.S. copyright law, says the Chronicle of Higher Education. AAUP has written a six page letter saying that...
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A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
