Maria A. Pallante, the Registrar of Copyrights, released a report last week identifying the legislative priorities for October 2011 through October 2013. These are, as the proverb goes, interesting times for copyright law, what with every interested party staking out…
Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
A Word About Better World Books
28
Oct
There are times when a library has to weed a collection because of space or other constraints. The question arises as to what to do with the discarded items, which at times can be significant in numbers. I’m not talking…
Google Books Comes To The UK
07
Oct
Cheap tablets from competitors may have had one effect on Google. Amazon has released the Kindle Fire as a convenient front end to its massive store with expectations that the Fire will be sold globally. Google Books was never available…
California Enacts Book Purchase Privacy Law
04
Oct
California has enacted the Reader Privacy Act (S.B. 602) which requires search warrant to access customer data on regular and e-books purchased online or from bricks-and-mortar store. All the law and privacy groups are cheering. Here’s the ALCU press release,…
When e-Books Are Revised
03
Oct
Two stories popped up recently, one from Stephan Shankland via CNET and one from Carol Saller in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Both dealt with the mechanisms of correcting e-books for typos and such. Shankland’s example concerned the Kindle version…
When e-Books Are Revised
03
Oct
Two stories popped up recently, one from Stephan Shankland via CNET and one from Carol Saller in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Both dealt with the mechanisms of correcting e-books for typos and such. Shankland’s example concerned the Kindle version…
Google Books Case Gearing Up For Trial As Settlement Talks Still Going On
16
Sep
There are some developments in the Google Book Settlement talks. Search Engine Land is reporting from cited sources that Judge Chin is setting up pretrial steps with the idea that the case could go to trial sometime in mid-2012. However,…
Legal Information Institute and CALI Partner to Publish Free eBooks
06
Sep
So, it looks like my first post on Law Librarian Blog since I started working for a publisher/vendor/partner in legal information is going to be….to promote one of our products. Awkward. But it’s a FREE product! Does that help? I…
