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European digital library aims to save 'orphans'
Europeana, a new pan-European 'digital cultural database', has as one of its main aims to preserve and protect 'orphan works' -- such as the millions of books that that are out of print and ...
Productivity Commission terms of reference announced
Chris Bowen, Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs, has announced the terms of reference for a Productivity Commission report on the current laws regarding ...
Google settles Book Search lawsuits
Google has provisionally agreed to pay US$125m to settle a long-running legal dispute between it and US publishers over its Book Search scanning program. Part of the settlement willl go tow...
Bloomsbury launches academic imprint with a Creative Commons twist
Bloomsbury has announced that it is moving into the acadmic market with the luanch of an 'on-demand' imprint that will publish titles online for free under a Creative Commons license.
Rowling wins 'Lexicon' court case
J K Rowling has won a court case against the author of a fan-compiled 'lexicon' of the Harry Potter books. The author and publisher of the lexicon are considering an appeal.
National Geographic wins digital copyright case
Magazine and newspaper publishers may digitize and publish archived articles without infringing on freelancers' copyrights, two US courts have ruled.
Chinese crackdown on pirated textbooks
Provincial authorities in the Eastern Chinese area of Zhejiang have cracked down on the reproduction and sale of pirated books in the city of Hangzhou. The Bureau raided warehouses belonging...
DRM a potential 'black hole' for publishers
Technology consultant Martyn Daniels has warned that digital rights management (DRM) is 'a potential black hole for publishers' and that current DRM models used in the music industry are 'idiotic...
Harry Potter case will be a landmark, whatever the outcome
Writing in The Times, two copyright lawyers argue that whatever the outcome of the case against the author of the Harry Potter encylopedia, it will be a landmark case in establishing the boundaries of...
In brief
'Five Bells' up for saleThe copyright on one of Australia's best-known poems, Five Bells by Kenneth Slessor, is up for sale. Slessor's son, Paul, plans to use the proceeds from selling the rights...
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