Yesterday, West authors received the following message from Chris Parton, General Manager, Law School Publishing, and Pamela Siege Chandler, Senior Director, Law School Publishing: A Message to our Authors about Changes at West Earlier today, Thomson Reuters announced that it…
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Even West Is Shedding West: Sounds like TR Legal’s law school publishing business may end up being for sale
20
Jan
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Even West Is Shedding West: Sounds like TR Legal’s law school publishing business "may" end up being for sale
20
Jan
Yesterday, West authors received the following message from Chris Parton, General Manager, Law School Publishing, and Pamela Siege Chandler, Senior Director, Law School Publishing: A Message to our Authors about Changes at West Earlier today, Thomson Reuters announced that it…
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Digital Book World’s 10 Predictions for 2012
05
Jan
They include: Authors will become disenchanted with the rights they sign away to publishers. Shorter and more flexible copyright terms will become more attractive to authors. The standard e-book royalty from major publishing houses will rise next year and will…
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Authors Guild Complains About Amazon’s Kindle Book Lending Program
15
Nov
If the Authors Guild hates libraries it hates electronic libraries even more. We know about the suit against the HathiTrust, which is the outgrowth of litigation against Google for scanning books without permission, assuming permission is necessary. No court has…
Authors File Amended Complaint Against the HathiTrust
12
Oct
Publishers Weekly is reporting that the Authors Guild has filed an amended complaint in its suit against the HathiTrust libraries. The complaint seeks to add additional plaintiffs. These are authors who have been mistakenly listed in the category of orphan…
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Authors Guild Sues HathiTrust Over Orphan Books
14
Sep
Readers of this blog may have come across news stories of the Authors Guild suing various university libraries comprising the HathiTrust for digitizing copyrighted works and their plan to make orphan works available to their user communities. It was merely…
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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