New ‘Orphan Works’ Rule in UK Makes Millions of Creative Works Available for Public Display (GigaOM)
The UK government is trying a new approach to the orphan works problem that it says will make more than 91 million painting and books available to the public.
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Amazon’s Impact on Publishing? It’s Complicated (PW)
Offering equal measures of thoughtful and contradictory commentary, aWednesday night panel called “Will Amazon Lead Us to the Golden Age of Books?,” at the New America Foundation in New York City, gave an encompassing picture of the publishing industry’s conflicted–perhaps even tortured–responses to Amazon, and its business tactics.
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Rupert Murdoch Urges Media Firms to Unite to Fight Amazon and Netflix (The Guardian)
21st Century Fox chairman says industry is ‘on the same page’ about need to come up with serious competitor to streaming video giants.
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Spain Passes Copyright Law; Demands Payment for Snippets and Linking to Infringing Content (Techdirt)
Apparently ignoring just how badly this worked out for publishers in Germany, the Spanish Parliament has passed a law to fine aggregators and search engines for using snippets or linking to infringing content.
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Kindle Daily Deal: Five Lou Mason Thrillers (and others)
