Used e-book sales ahead if this case applies? ReDigi settles damages, prepares to appeal...
The dream of reselling used e-books may not be dead just yet. Digital media resale startup ReDigi has reached a settlement in its four-year-old legal battle with Capital Records that will...
Teacher suspended for selling public domain book to students; should have used Project Gutenberg
I just ran across a story Nate Hoffelder posted on The Digital Reader, originally from the New York Post, about a Brooklyn English teacher, Todd Friedman, who’s been put on academic...
Jury finds Google’s Android reimplementation of Oracle’s Java APIs is fair use
Another copyright case just turned into a fair use case. We haven’t touched on this one before, given that it doesn’t touch on e-books directly. However, it directly affects the future...
Is ‘Happy Birthday’ Still Under Copyright?
Mike Masnick has a great write-up about a pending lawsuit that finally challenges the copyright claim Warner/Chappell Music has been enforcing for decades over the 'Happy Birthday' song.
I remember first hearing about...
DMCA takedown abuse issue pits #WTFU against #StopArtistExploitation
A few weeks ago I covered a couple of videos by Doug Walker, aka “The Nostalgia Critic,” as part of his #WTFU “Where’s the Fair Use?” campaign. In the first video,...
IBM patents printer concept that could prevent printing copyrighted material
What if your printer wouldn’t print out text from your e-book? That’s the future IBM may envision if the patent application it just filed comes to fruition. Torrentfreak reports that IBM...
New music revenue tracking app for artists: A model for authors?
Here's a fascinating tipoff we had from a reader with a Swedish source. It concerns a music tracking app for artists, but a similar solution for ebook authors could be a...
Patent absurdity: Trying to protect its rule set lands small role-playing game publisher in...
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the tabletop role-playing game community’s current tempestuous teapot. Recently, a small role-playing game publisher held an IRC interview about the new multi-genre tabletop role-playing...
Trading in paper books for e-books: Is it possible?
In my email this morning, I received a notice from Quora that I had been invited to submit an answer for the following question: Are there any...
Google Books decision could have important implications for future copyright policy
On Publishers Weekly, Andrew Albanese has a post-mortem looking at the overall effects of the recent Supreme Court decision not to hear the Google Books copyright case. Albanese makes some cogent...
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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...
