Copyright

Do you find Shakespeare’s plays a little too complex for your modern understanding? If so, there is help for you. MakeUseOf reports on Sparknotes’s “No Fear Shakespeare,” screen-readable versions of many...

Springer Nature, the Macmillan-owned research, educational and professional publisher, has announced the expansion of a trial content sharing program based on the famous scientific journal Nature. According to the statement, "Springer...

Can you legally print from an e-book you’re reading? Would you want to? And how to do so? No, I’m not talking about piracy, just fair use in your own home...

Introduction Copyright infringement is something many creators come face to face with. Over the past two months it has been something I’ve been dealing with. A third party is using...

At the end of December, I mentioned that the government is seeking input on how it should update the exemption request process for the right to crack DRM under the DMCA. But what I hadn’t noticed was at the same time, the government also posted a request for comments on another section of the DMCA...

The sad news just broke this morning that Harper Lee, author of the 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird and its draft version Go Set a Watchman published last year, has...

A few days ago, the Wall Street Journal ran an article on a subject near and dear to my heart, and of some degree of relevance to TeleRead readers, too. After...

The New York Public Library now offers more than 187,000 free high-resolution images of everything from skyscrapers to old railroad menus. What  treasure trove for self-publishers and others! Benefit from public domain goodies for your research or legal reproduction in your...

Ever wonder why Congress seems so clueless on technological issues, and easily swayed by corporate lobbyists? Wired suggests it’s because Congress got rid of its science and technology advisory office, the...

As I reported earlier, a public consultation is going on in Canada right now as the government seeks to reform its Canadian Content regulations. The issues most covered by the media...