(9 June 2015) Academic publishing company Elsevier has filed a complaint at a New York District Court, hoping to shut down the Library Genesis project and the SciHub.org search engine. The sites, which are particularly popular in developing nations where access to academic works is relatively expensive, are accused of pirating millions of scientific articles.…
(27 May 2015) EIFL reports that as Myanmar emerges from five decades of economic and political isolation, the government is taking measures to open up the economy and to introduce legal and social reforms across a wide range of sectors. Trade-related legislation such as competition and consumer protection laws are being revised, and comprehensive new…
(4 May 2015) A card game to help teach (UK) copyright was developed by Chris Morrison, Naomi Korn and Jane Secker for a SCONUL seminar. The material to create the card game is available on the repository JORUM under a creative commons (CC-BY-NC-SA) license. There are instructions for tutors, a file of the cards to…
(28 April 2015, Oakland, Calif) Turnitin®, the leader in originality checking and online grading, today announced the general availability of Turnitin Scoring Engine, a service that provides automated scoring of short answer texts and written essays. Turnitin Scoring Engine provides instant scoring of student-written texts in online learning environments, or for assessing essays at the…
(1 April 2015, Bangkok) Thailand has toughened its copyright law to include, for the first time, responsibility of intermediaries, or internet service providers, for infringement of copyright work on the internet, and separately, to penalise people who record movies being shown in theatres without authorisation with a maximum imprisonment of four years. Intellectual Property Watch…
(1 April 2015) In a bid for fair copyright laws that will benefit citizens and researchers across Europe, organisations including the Wellcome Trust, the National Library of Scotland, the National Library of Wales, the Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals, Royal Museums Greenwich and the Open Rights Group have called for much needed reforms.…
(6 March 2015) Both LIANZA and the public have been given a clear intimation that the New Zealand Government has given its Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiators guidelines that allow lengthening of copyright terms in order to achieve a long-desired ‘free trade’ agreement with the US, through a group meeting with TPP negotiators, and via the media.…
(2 February 2015) The Australian Digital Alliance Copyright Forum takes place 13 February 2015 at the National Library of Australia, Canberra. Topics include FAIR, HathiTrust, open access and more. If you’re not attending, Internet NZ is sponsoring a live stream of the program. For lots more detail visit the ADA blog here.
( 8 January 2015) The ARL reports that for the past several years, HathiTrust and five of its member universities have been engaged in litigation after being sued by the Authors Guild. On 6 January 2015, the parties entered a settlement on the sole issue remaining before the district court, ending the litigation in a…
(6 January 2015, Washington, D.C.) Public policy issues surrounding 3D printers are now coming to the fore as the technology becomes more widely available in America’s libraries and homes. To ensure people are able to use 3D printers responsibly and effectively, librarians must now work towards developing policies in copyright, trademark, privacy, product liability and…
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