The TeleRead proposal for a well-stocked national digital library system could aid publishers by, among other things, driving down the cost of distributing even nonlibrary books. Publishers could use the...

With articles as far back 1949, the NUMDAM site will offer mathematical literature published in France. NUMDAM is short for "NUM

Sen. Trent Lott of the no-longer-so-sovereign state of Mississippi is still bleeding from his suggestion that the U.S. might have been better off if Strom Thurmond, the former Dixiecrat, had...

J.D. Lasica is right. The RIAA should go after stores that sell pirated CDs and the like. That's an entirely different issue from fair use. We're talking outright theft here....

One of the reasons why TeleRead favors national digital libraries, plural, is that different countries have different values. Certain Americans, for example, would consider many Moslem countries to be backwards...

"Jurors have acquitted Elcomsoft because they believed the company didn't mean to violate the law. The case is a key test of the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act." - Ziff...

"Internet media company Yahoo Inc. (NasdaqNM:YHOO - news), in its latest move to expand its business through fee-based services, on Tuesday said it has opened a pay-for-use archive of Associated...

Some posts on the eBook Community List discussed "Copyright Economics"--a big reason for the scarcity of e-titles from the '60s, '70s and '80s.The TeleRead take: TeleRead would help address this...

"Software and hardware suppliers hope a $2,000 tablet can replace a stack of documents and a laptop, making it seem like a money saver rather than a money waster. Positioning...

Stocked up on vacation reading the old-fashioned way--a local library sale. Got The Rise of David Levinsky for 50 cents in paperback. This, of course, is the stuff that copyright...