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US Authors Guild voices concerns with Amazon Library Lending 'mess'
The US Authors Guild says it is troubled by both Amazon taking some titles from publishers without their permission for its Kindle lending library program, as well as by publishers who signed onto th...
BISG recommendations announced
The Book Industry Strategy Group (BISG) has recommended the timetable for retention of territorial copyright in Australia be reduced from 30/90 days to 14/14 days in its final report to the Federal Go...
Google settlement could breach US treaties and cause 'diplomatic stress'
In a legal analysis done for the Open Book Alliance, intellectual property lawyer Cynthia Arato, a partner at the law firm of Macht, Shapiro, Arato and Isseries, reiterated her belief that ...
Cursor: 'a new business model for publishing'
Richard Nash (who'll be a keynote speaker at this year's ABA Conference) reveals the business model behind his new venture Cursor, including three-year contracts with authors....
Appeals court 'vacates' earlier ruling on Salinger sequel
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated a September 2009 injunction barring publication of Swedish author Fredrik Colting's 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye, which lawyers for autho...
US releases draft of 'secret' copyright treaty
After months of public outcry in the US and Europe, the US Trade Representative has now released a draft of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), a treaty critics say would improperly ex...
revised summary of Google settlement issues
With the Google Settlement now in the hands of a federal judge, The Public Index, a group organized by New York Law School’s James Grimmelmann and his students, have updated and posted a rev...
UK passes Digital Economy Bill
Despite some grave concerns, authorsa are now generally happier with the UK's Digital Economy Bill after the removal of its controversial Clause 43.
Is old copyright holding back new media?
With the launch of the iPad, the question of changing rights and permissions to better suit new formats comes to the fore, argues Marc Aronson in the NY Times
Photographers sue Google over book scanning
In the latest twist to the long-running Google Books saga, photographers are now suing Google for copyright infringement for scanning their images published in books
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