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This post originally appeared on Talis’ Nodalities blog. The first steps of the Semantic Web are now a short distance behind us and some organisations are starting to pick up the pace. With more and...
View ArticleCopyright and the not-yet-written
Various news sites are reporting on an interesting Copyright claim going through the New York courts right now. The BBC Says: Author JK Rowling is to testify in a New York court this week over plans to...
View ArticleThomson Reuters EndNote and Zotero
Just blogged for work about Thomson Reuters suing George Mason University over EndNote. It seems slightly surprising that an organisation like Thomson Reuters, who are doing cool stuff elsewhere with...
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OCLC, Record Usage, Copyright, Contracts and the Law
FUD truck by John Markos on Flickr NB: This is my own blog. The opinions I publish do not necessarily reflect those of my employer. I am not a lawyer, but I did ask James Grimmelmann for his thoughts....
View ArticleJoin the Internet Blackout – Protest Against Guilt Upon Accusation Laws in NZ...
Update: The NZ government have suspended the introduction of Section 92a (via MiramarMike) An interesting campaign to ‘blackout’ your online presence to campaign for change to one of NZ’s clauses...
View Articlea travesty indeed
open…: HADOPI Law Passed – by 12 Votes to 4. The French passed a law that forces ISPs to withdraw internet access based upon accusations of infringement by Copyright holders. This is what many in New...
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Court jails Pirate Bay founders
A court in Sweden has jailed four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world’s most high-profile file-sharing website, in a landmark case. via BBC NEWS | Technology | Court jails Pirate Bay founders.
View ArticleLegally Speaking: The Dead Souls of the Google Booksearch Settlement –...
In the short run, the Google Book Search settlement will unquestionably bring about greater access to books collected by major research libraries over the years. But it is very worrisome that this...
View ArticleWendy’s Blog: Legal Tags » Theater of the DMCA Anticircumvention Hearings
The proceedings jumped the line to farce when Fritz Attaway and a colleague from the MPAA pulled out a cinematic demonstration of just how to camcord a movie from your television screen. (You start...
View ArticleSharing and re-use of catalogue records: what are the legal implications? :...
The records in a university library catalogue typically have many different origins: created by the library, obtained from a national library or a book supplier etc. So, who ‘owns’ them? And what are...
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