TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » copyright reform http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 22 May 2013 20:45:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Europe’s Database Right: A scary concept http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/europes-database-right-a-scary-concept/ http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/europes-database-right-a-scary-concept/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:48:01 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=78938 Techdirt has a write-up on something I had never heard of–a special copyright introduced in 1996 which protects the contents of databases, even if all the works they list are public domain. The case Techdirt profiles involves a company which wanted to obtain some government records from the 1700s and 1800s and were told they [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/europes-database-right-a-scary-concept/feed/ 6 Republican paper on copyright reform lasts less than 24 hours, but there may still be hope http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/republican-paper-on-copyright-reform-lasts-less-than-24-hours-but-there-may-still-be-hope/ http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/republican-paper-on-copyright-reform-lasts-less-than-24-hours-but-there-may-still-be-hope/#comments Wed, 21 Nov 2012 01:17:52 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/?p=74819 Given the state of Republican rhetoric in recent years, I was very surprised to find them endorsing a cause I can actually wholeheartedly support—but they did so this past weekend, for less than 24 hours before they hastily retracted it. I refer to a paper issued by the Republican Study Committee, the caucus for House [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/republican-paper-on-copyright-reform-lasts-less-than-24-hours-but-there-may-still-be-hope/feed/ 4 UK Pirate Party leader: Shortening copyright could help creators http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/uk-pirate-party-leader-shortening-copyright-could-help-creators/ http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/uk-pirate-party-leader-shortening-copyright-could-help-creators/#comments Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:15:00 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/uk-pirate-party-leader-shortening-copyright-could-help-creators/ Back in September, I mentioned FutureBook’s Nick Harkaway’s interview with a former official of the UK branch of the Pirate Party. Despite the name, the Pirate Party is not a bunch of wild-eyed file-sharing anarchists who think that information ought to be free because it “wants to be”. Rather, it is an organized political party [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/uk-pirate-party-leader-shortening-copyright-could-help-creators/feed/ 2 Jessica Litman calls for copyright reform http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/jessica-litman-calls-for-copyright-reform/ http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/jessica-litman-calls-for-copyright-reform/#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:15:00 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.org/2010/03/22/jessica-litman-calls-for-copyright-reform/ My father is fond of telling me a parable about the roads here in Missouri. I have no way of knowing if the story is true, but it seems reasonable. Once upon a time, he tells me, there were a lot of passing zones on the highways—the broken stripes on one or both sides of [...]

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