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About eight years ago I was one of the group at the Association of American Publishers that voted to file suit against Google for the unauth...

Judge Denny Chin doesn't move so fast. His current colleagues on the second circuit, of which one is considered a fair use scholar, may...

At lunch with a media banker several weeks ago, she had me thinking differently about the proliferation of aggregated content platforms such...

If employers won't value for profit education what's the prospect? ( WaPo ): Education researchers have actually conducted a number...

University of California at Berkeley professor Dr. Pamela Samuelson in The Chronicle from a few weeks ago on Copyright reform and the creati...

(Video of this presentation here) The last time I was asked to speak at an AAUP meeting was in Denver in 1999 and naturally the topic was ...

To the average Apple aficionado, today’s spectacle on Apple’s entry into the education space would have seemed just par for the course.  Hy...

Google's Chrome Lending program is set for a series of tests ( DigitalTrends ); Google has been working with public libraries recent...

The Chronicle reports on a case brought against UCLA for breaching copyright in using streaming video.  James Grimmelmann, an NY Law School ...

Jeff Trachtenberg of the WSJ reports that Amazon may be looking to launch a digital lending library for books. It's unclear how much ...

A new “Beyond the Book” podcast from Copyright Clearance Center in which CCC’s Chris Kenneally gets a special tour of the Googleplex and spe...

Maybe Google tried too hard to stir the ocean with a swizzle stick. Way back in time, Google believed that indexing printed content that th...

Originally posted on April 29, 2009. Publishers curate content but they don’t really do it well. And that’s a shame, because curation w...

Late last year, I wrote an analysis of the possible size of the orphan work issue that was core to the initial criticism over the Google Boo...

Copyright law expert Lois Wasoff discusses the most important changes and revisions to the Google Book Settlement in a PodCast ( here ). So...

I was clearing out my file draw this weekend - 'back in the day' I actually used to save print articles of interest - and I came acr...

In the waning Friday of the Frankfurt bookfair there was a contentious, apparently somewhat 'anti-google' discussion of the Google B...

In April 2009, EDItEUR announced the release of a major new version of the ONIX for Books standard: ONIX 3.0. This release of ONIX is the fi...