‘”Webcaster’s Right” in WIPO Treaty’
Here from Andy Oram in Emerging Technology, via Slashdot.
Universities and the entertainment-copyright complex: Still coming
It's still on the schedule but probably for next weekend. Minneapolis Mao ate up my quota of TeleBlog time.
Publishers on e-books for disabled college students and ‘orphan works’
Here and here from the Association of American Publishers.
Publishing giants sue Google
Plaintiffs are McGraw-Hill Cos. Inc., Pearson Plc's Pearson Education and Penguin Group (USA) subsidiaries, Simon & Schuster (owned by Viacom) and John Wiley & Sons Inc. More from Reuters via CNN....
‘German Publishers Warm to Google Library’
So what gives with German publishers? Conventional wisdom was that European houses would hate Google's book indexing plan, but a Deutsche Welle headline reads German Publishers Warm to Google Library. (Via...
Way stupid suit over Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine
Details from CNet/NYT, Copyfight and N.J. Star-Ledger. (Thanks, Rochelle.)
‘Public Roundtables in March 2006 on Copyright Exceptions for Libraries and Archives’
"A committee appointed by the Library of Congress will hold two public roundtables in March 2006--in Los Angeles and in Washington, D.C.--to gather insights and opinions on how to revise copyright...
Google headed toward expensive copyright suits–from e-book scanning?
Details in Financial Times, via LISNews.
AMAZON
A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
