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'One-word explanation of why enhanced ebooks won't work'
The one word is 'greed' and the explanation lies in the tangle of copyright clearances and permissions.
Will Europe's 3 million orphan works ever be digitised?
Differences in copyright laws are only one of the barriers to digitising Europe's estimated three million 'orphan works', according to Publishing Perspectives.
Ebook deals 'not remotely fair' for authors
The head of the UK Society of Authors has warned said that he feels that current royalty and rights deals being offered to authors for ebooks are 'not remotely fair'.
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
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