Archive for the ‘Copyright’ Category
Wednesday, January 26th, 2005
Stanford Center for Internet and Society
If you aren't already familiar with my position on copyrights, go here and here.
Given those views, you might be surprised at my reaction to Kahle v. Ashcroft cited in the above link.
What is Kahle about?
From the first U.S. copyright statute in 1790 until the Copyright ...
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Sunday, January 16th, 2005
Lawrence Lessig, a Professor of Law at Stanford, has an article in Wired magazine addressing copyright extensions in the United States, linked here. I can’t recall a recent article more in dire need of a good Fisking.
But in the interest of pointing out another view, go over ...
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Wednesday, December 22nd, 2004
The Copyright and New Media Law
In an earlier post, I had expressed concerns about the handling of printed copyright media in our nation's library, raising my long held belief that the system strips the right of the writer to expect payment for his work. A friend of mine posted ...
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Monday, December 20th, 2004
The New York Public Library, The Branch Libraries
The New York Public Library is now offering eBooks for check out. Under this system, you check out the book by downloading it to your reader, and after 21 days, it 'expires' and is 'returned' to the library by being deleted from ...
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Friday, December 17th, 2004
I've noticed a distinct problem in the way I've been communicating my objection. My friend summarized it as the Book As Object approach vs my Book As Media Channel approach. Once we bridged that gap in concept, my objections seemed quite sensible. While the Book As Object concept is the ...
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2004
OK, I officially hate the comment system, and will be fixing it when I have time.....
Steve,
Now I'm confused. If you now agree that a loan is as a distributed copy, then how is the loaning justified in the case of a library, while Blockbuster must negotiate fees for the ...
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