05/18/2012 @ 07:00PM
While licensors have typically granted their print licensees limited rights for e-book conversions—sometimes with narration, music, or sound effects—publishers increasingly want to add animation, interactivity, or original content. Random House asks its licensors for rights to all digital formats, including standard e-books, e-books with audio, enhanced e-books, and apps.
05/18/2012 @ 07:00PM
The verdict in the Georgia State e-reserves case is in, but there is much to digest
A “high-profile defeat” for publishers is how Brandon Butler, director of public policy initiatives at the Association of Research Libraries, described the May 11 verdict in Cambridge University Press et. al. v. Mark Becker et. al., a closely watched copyright case involving the use of electronic course reserves at Georgia State University. In a 350-page decision, Judge Orinda Evans rebuked publishers, who had sought a sweeping injunction that could have had major implications for the use of unlicensed course content throughout higher education.
05/14/2012 @ 12:00AM
After nearly a year of deliberation, Judge Orinda Evans last week delivered the long awaited verdict in Cambridge University Press et al. v. Patton case, the Georgia State University e-reserve case.
05/14/2012 @ 12:00AM
The Association of American Publishers has released a statement on Friday's ruling in Cambridge University Press et al v. Patton et al, the e-reserves case at Georgia State University, expressing disappointment and calling some of the court's fair use findings "mistaken."
05/04/2012 @ 10:00AM
From the questions he asked from the bench, it certainly seems like Judge Denny Chin wants to see the Authors Guild lawsuit against Google and its library book-scanning program proceed as a class action. But after a morning of oral arguments in Manhattan, it is unclear if that can happen.
04/27/2012 @ 12:00AM
According to an amicus brief prepared on behalf of three major library organizations, the motion for partial summary judgment filed in February by the Authors Guild in its lawsuit against the HathiTrust reflects a deeply flawed, distorted view of libraries’ rights.
03/01/2012 @ 12:00AM
Although the Google Book Settlement has been rejected by the court, the Authors Guild is placing the question of fair use front and center in a motion filed February 28.
02/27/2012 @ 12:00AM
Earlier this month, I took advantage of a gracious offer from PW contributing editor Nancy Pearl and traveled to Seattle, to meet 11 of Nancy’s students in the Information School at the University of Washington. I wanted to see who is choosing to go into the profession, and why. What are their thoughts on the way the information world—and the publishing industry—is developing?
02/27/2012 @ 12:00AM
On what copyright can and cannot do
If there was any question that copyright law in the digital age is reaching a critical point, a coalition of Web sites on January 18 offered a stark reminder. In the largest online protest in Internet history, some 7,000 popular sites went dark or otherwise altered their sites, successfully protesting two controversial copyright proposals introduced in Congress—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) the PROTECT IP Act, also known as PIPA.
02/17/2012 @ 07:00PM
TOC 2012
Whatever else can be said about Tools of Change, O’Reilly Media’s traveling road show on publishing and technological change, it seems to come along just when a concentrated dose of discussion—or perhaps muted confrontation—is needed. Over the course of the three-day conference in New York City, February 13–15, there were timely presentations on libraries and e-books, the bewildering evolution of copyright in the digital era and the related role of digital piracy—not to mention a parade of authors, whose books and entertaining presentations served to illuminate some of the most contentious issues in media and business culture.
Barbara Vey
For some reason I've been having a lot of nightmares lately. You know, the kind where when you wake up you don't know what's real and what's not....
Elizabeth Bluemle
Once in a while, I blog about book covers that drive me crazy because they are either overdone, mired in trend and cliché, or are impossible handsells. I figure it's time to celebrate some stando...
Rose Fox
Hotel shenanigans and plastic suburbia....
Adam Boretz
Our final piece in Publishers Weekly's Focus on Audio 2012 is a Q&A with comedian, actor, director, and writer Michael Showalter -- narrator of the audio edition of his memoir Mr. Funny Pants and...
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