Copyright Clearance Center lawsuit against University Libraries; rapped over financing CCC used specious defence of his actions

Earlier we reported that the Copyright Clearance Center financing litigation against University Libraries was. It seemed strange for me at the time that the CCC was to promote cooperation in different copyright, but in truth, active litigation against the financing was very parties you with work wanted.

Now, Publishers Weekly is reporting that the Association of research libraries complain about this.

A controversial copyright case e reserves in university libraries has grown a little more tense.PW has learned that the Association of research libraries (ARL) sent a letter to the Copyright Clearance Center, its role in financing a current Publisher lawsuit against four people at Georgia State University on the use of electronic course content protestieren.In sent a letter to CCC CEO Tracey Armstrong expressed ARL Director Charles Lowry "deep disappointment at the decision by the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), to draw 50% of the applicant in the proceedings." Lowry noted that the library only by CCC learned the key role in the action after it, District Court in Atlanta was revealed in a footnote in a recent ruling by judge Orinda Evans of the Federal.

Writing Lowry points that CCC was founded as "a collaboration between content creators, content publishers and content users." In fact, the non-profit of CCC's revenues come a considerable part from academic libraries. Since learning of CCC's role in the HSE e reserve case, have some librarians on the idea of bristles that have helped your fees, a lawsuit against you pressure to finance, especially at a time of extreme budget.

While Lowry, who admitted "Balance of interests" of the publishers and users "can be a challenging task", he suggested to support CCC given its central role as a moderator, "Collaboration," rather than litigation. "This action by the CCC signals for the content of user community, CCC will no longer serve the interests of all partners in the scientific communication groups." Lowry urged the CCC "forward to rethink its role of financing is the litigation."

In response, the CCC says that it tried to clarify fair use argument is obviously specious beitragen.Dieses.CCC is financing a dispute by a major publisher.If really means what you said, why you the other side - funds libraries funds not.The result, clarification of the fair use would be still the same.Instead you chose the route that success would make the way the libraries smaller.

"It makes one think about the relationship of the CCC to Verlagen.Deutlich bags are in the Publisher and all your talk of"facilitate licensing"is bullshit. what you really want to do is an enforcement agency geworden.Als corporate lawyer (Emeritus) from this point forward I recommend my clients certainly handle the CCC as an adversary and suggest that you be very careful in any future use of the Center.""All you can say and used against you" is to keep the maxim in mind, now that the CCC has revealed his true bias.

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UK holds the copyright laws more Internet friendly, adding fair usage

Simply plug in a time when progress of copyright does not seem, but actually going backwards, it's nice to see, try at least one country progress. Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron has announced a six month review of UK copyright law, trying to make fit "for the Internet age".

Cameron has especially an eye to the United States doctrine of fair use, which permits limited types of unauthorized use of copyrighted material, which he believes is useful allow enterprise, innovation and new types of goods and services to produce Great Britain has currently no fair use rules - and indeed, under current UK law it is not even legal CDs, RIP mp3s.

Of course, it is uncertain how useful will be a fair use provision, given that even over here in the U.S. media companies seem to do everything, it can eliminate – most in particular passing the DMCA, which means that it is illegal DRM files such as such as e-books to strip, even if you do it, so can a legitimate fair use of it to make.

Needless to say, sounds UK media groups cautionary make deserves rewards on creator werden.Publishers Association chief exec said Richard Mollet:

"Publishers Association works closely with the Office for intellectual property during these six months verification to ensure that rightholders interests are not considered as an obstacle to the creation of Internet-based business models, as some believe, but as the foundation of UK substrate sizes creative, cultural and educational publishing industries."

(Via Slashdot you found.)

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Libraries challenge copyright

I have a few times on the limited number of "Copies" of eBooks available scolded county library system from my. It seems that 90% of the books are always checked out (and I have in the other 10% rarely still interested in), and always an eBook about the library hold list seems to take forever. That is why I'm happy to deliver care to see part of the equation more equal to the part of the demand for this unorthodox approach.

From the Wall Street Journal article are: libraries extends e book offers print editions, expanding part of a broader effort borrowing privileges in the Internet age, which could challenge traditional ideas about copyright.

From Tuesday, under the authority of Internet Archive bundle a set of libraries, a non-profit digital library, forces to create a one stop site for checking out e-books, including access to more than one million scanned publicly available books and a catalog of thousands of contemporary e-book titles in many public libraries available.

And participants, including the Boston public library and the marine laboratory biological in a first, increase scans of a few hundred older books that still in copyright, but not more commercially sold could beitragen.Dieser part of the project eyebrows, since copyright is unclear in the digital books arena.

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