In a statement released on 10 January 2017, EUA together with CESAER, LERU, LIBER and Science Europe — which together represent hundreds of universities, libraries, funders and research performing organisations — say amendments in five main areas are critical if Europe wants to be at the forefront of a prosperous and growing digital society, the vision set out by the European Commission in its strategy for a Digital Single Market. More...
By . Access Copyright is warning creators and publishers to brace for a significant decrease in their royalty payments next year.
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. University of Manitoba students receive 'extortion' letters over illegal downloads
CBC News, 2016/09/13
Students at the the University of Manitoba are being sent letters that demand payment and threaten huge sanctions over alleged copyright violations. More...
EUA welcomes the European Commission’s (EC) recent proposal for a Directive on copyright in the Digital Single Market, yet stresses the need for further clarification and dialogue to make European copyright efficient, future-proof and innovation-friendly. More...
By Anqi Shen. A lawsuit and federal review of Canada’s copyright act could have wide implications for universities. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Amazon Inspire Removes Some Content Over Copyright Issues
Natasha Singer, New York Times, 2016/07/06
I wonder how much of this is genuine concern and how much of it is a campaign of fear, uncertainty and doubt. True, some materials were genuine infringements and removed from Amazon's OER site. More...
By Carl Straumsheim. Decision to grant a publisher the right to print the writings of Aaron Swartz -- viewed by some as a martyr of the open-access movement -- sets off a debate about copyright. Read more...
By Fernanda Zamudio-Suaréz. The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a legal challenge by the Authors Guild, which argued that the Google Books project to scan about 20 million books for an online library violated copyright law, Reuters reported on Monday.
The Authors Guild began its legal battle with Google Books in 2005, saying the online service violated copyright law because Google profited while authors went without pay. More...
By Barbara Fister. Back in 2008 three scholarly publishers – Oxford, Cambridge, and Sage – filed suit against employees of Georgia State University for posting excerpts of books in an e-reserves system without paying for permissions. Read more...
The Communication sets out how the Commission intends to achieve “the goal of a modern, more European copyright framework” through a set of proposals planned for 2016 and a long-term vision. With regard to Text and Data Mining (TDM) it is now time to walk the talk and to turn the irreversible but primarily implicit references, announcements and promises in the present Communication (and accompanying Q&A) into an explicit mandatory exception in the Spring legislative proposal. More...
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