Fold-out document scanner heralds portable-scanning future
Dead-tree scanning just got significantly smaller. Gadget Lab and eBookNewser, among others, are carrying reports on the O-King, a new pocket-portable scanning device. It’s only 1.6 megapixels and has to have...
Don’t bother telling me your copyright policy, Harris–Jim Webb won
I never did hear from Virginia Democratic Senate candidate Harris Miller about his copyright policy. (I had hopes. Miller used to be a tech lobbyist.)
By contrast, a staffer with rival James...
Google seeks to file amicus brief in ReDigi case
The ReDigi lawsuit took an intriguing turn yesterday. Google sent a letter to the judge in the EMI v. ReDigi case asking permission to file an amicus brief. Google says that...
Australia funds authors, publishers, in digital publishing, cultural exchanges
In an initiative that other countries might well envy, Australia's Copyright Agency Creative Industries Career Fund has just announced its latest series of career development grants to "Australian writers, artists and...
Obama about to sell out to the RIAA et al.? Wants Sonny Bono copyright...
No good. Barack Obama wants an RIAA-loved attorney and a second lawyer, a past defender of the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, to get top Justice Department posts. Details...
Prof: DRM ‘welding the hood shut’
Tarleton Gillespie, a visiting assistant professor at Cornell, gives a clueful overview of the copyright battles, including attacks on fair use. He accuses content providers of "welding the hood shut" and...
Google Books Settlement statements of: AAP, Open Book Alliance, Nat. Fed. of the Blind
Association of American Publishers:
Washington, DC, March 22, 2011 —Speaking on behalf of the publisher plaintiffs (The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.; Pearson Education, Inc; Penguin Group (USA) Inc.; Simon & Schuster,...
Forum for authors on piracy issues at Dear Author
Dear Author has started a thread for authors so that they can post and talk about piracy and related issues. Jane says that some authors believe they need more of...
Lesson for e-book biz? File-sharers said to be biggest music-buyers
Details from BBC via Globalization Institute. Related: Economics of used books, from Cory Doctorow.
Story Surgeon: Copyright infringement or fair use?
Writer Beware has an interesting post today linking to a Kickstarter for what WB’s Victoria Strauss calls “an app for copyright infringement.” The app is called “Story Surgeon,” is seeking $15,000,...