Anyone who may have read my post on BNA content being available through Google News may have clicked on the link I gave to the specific BNA content. If so, the story Copyright Office Report Outlines Issues Surrounding Mass Digitization…
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Dead Sea Scrolls Now Online With Help From Google
26
Sep
Parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls are now available online, with more coming. The Israel Museum partnered with Google to digitize the manuscripts and make them available to anyone with a web connection. The scrolls are so fragile that direct…
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,…
On Tearing Down the Berlin Wall Known as Copyrighted State Statutes
22
Jul
Fastcase’s Ed Walters recounts the great State of Oregon take-down notice matter which called for the removal of the State’s copyright protected statutes from Justia in 2008. The issue was resolved with the help of Public.Resource.org’s Carl Malamud. Justia was…
Freeing Digitally Conceived Text, Part 3: The Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act is a Good First Step But Not a Major Accomplishment
21
Jul
Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act From the Prefatory Note’s Introduction Providing information online is integral to the conduct of state government in the 21st century. The ease and speed with which information can be created, updated, and distributed electronically, especially…
Some Academic Libraries Jointly Negotiate Electronic Access Deals
19
Jul
I have only a little bit to add to the antitrust discussion, and that is merely referencing an article published on July 17th in the Chronicle of Higher Education (Premium Content, subscription required). It’s called Libraries Abandon Expensive ‘Big Deal’…
More HathiTrust Lawsuit News
Here’s a bit more on the Authors Guild suit against the HathiTrust. There is short commentary by Irvin Muchnick criticizing the Guild’s action published in BeyondChron, an alternative paper in the San Francisco area. Muchnick, noted for his championship of…
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