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From the Association of Research Libraries site: An ad hoc working group has created a new blog to share and discuss draft standard author rights language for library content licenses. This language...

Copyright holders need to consider fair use before issuing DMCA takedown notices. See details from Vnunet and Google news roundup.
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“The Wicked Witch sells Jack a book on how to build Gingerbread houses for $15.99. Later, Jack enrolls in an online course on how to build Gingerbread houses and so he...

From an article in The Digital Shift: University of California, Berkeley, law professor Pamela Samuelson, on behalf of more than 80 academics, sent a letter on Monday to Judge Denny Chin asserting that...

Understand, I am not condoning illicit downloading of books. Given that these books are available for purchase at incredibly inexpensive prices through multiple online outlets, supporting the publishers should be a no-brainer. However, it does appear that in some cases, the publishers could stand to learn a thing or two from the "pirates" about legibility.

"Movie and song copiers beware: use an Internet discussion site in Hong Kong to violate copyrights and you may be turned in to law enforcement authorities by an 11-year-old Boy Scout."...

Hey, everyone, it’s that time again! What time, you say? Time to write to the government about copyright policies! A while ago we covered Obama’s new copyright czar’s request for...

When most people complain about the iPhone or iPad being “locked down,” what they mean is that you have to get apps for them through Apple’s walled garden and nowhere...

Remember “copyright czar” Victoria Espinel? We mentioned her a couple of times back in 2010—when she called for public comments on the state of IP law,, when the comments came in....

"If you control the code, you can make your avatar do just about anything." So writes Jesse Wilbur in his retrospective in if:book on Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash and The Diamond Age....

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Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...

TeleRead.com is now a static archival site, but we're very much alive at TeleRead.org. Big thanks to Nate Hoffelder of The-Digital-Reader.com, who teamed up on the preservation project with ReclaimHosting.com.