One-word TPP change implies jail for copyright infringement, any pretext
Spotted by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a one-word revision of the draft Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) could underwrite "a massive extension" of the treaty's powers to extend and harshen penalties for...
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...
Harper Lee passes away at 89; her copyrights will live on for 70 more...
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...
The Nostalgia Critic asks, ‘Where’s the Fair Use?’ #wtfu
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The notion of “fair use” is a long-enshrined concept in copyright—effectively an “exception” to copyright law, it allows the use of portions of (or in some cases the entirety of)...
Justice Scalia’s copyright legacy—and what his loss means for e-book cases
Yesterday, the Supreme Court lost one of its most conservative judges at one of the most interesting possible times. There are plenty of articles going around about what this will mean...
Massive civil disobedience for scholarly open access
Online knowledge forum Big Think has shared a profile of the Kazakh woman who's single-handedly taking on the Goliath of scholarly publishing, and leading a global civil disobedience campaign in support...
Wikimedia Foundation removes Anne Frank Diary due to US copyright law
The Wikimedia Foundation has announced that it was required to remove a copy of the Dutch-language edition of The Diary of Anne Frank that was hosted on WMF servers due to...
As Supreme Court decides whether to look at Google Books, Authors Guild still misses...
A couple of days ago, the Wall Street Journal carried an editorial from Authors Guild President Roxana Robinson. Unfortunately, since the WSJ closed the Google loophole, I can’t actually read said...
‘Who really owns my Kindle?’ and other questions for the post-digital age
Here is a question for you: 'Who really owns my Kindle?' I bought it. I paid for it. It's mine, right? Maybe not. The murky post-digital copyright waters continue to muddy...
Print from e-books: How to do it—and a plea to Amazon and others to...
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...
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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...
