(5 June 2014) According to EU Advocate General Jääskinen, a Member State may authorise libraries to digitise, without the consent of the rightholders, books they hold in their collection so as to make them available at electronic reading points. While the Copyright Directive does not allow Member States to authorise users to save a book…
(June 2014) Fear and uncertainty about copyright law often plagues educators and sometimes prevents creative teaching. This online course from Duke University with Coursera is a professional development opportunity designed to provide a basic introduction to US copyright law and to empower teachers and librarians at all grade levels. Course participants will discover that the…
(5 June 2014, Danvers, Mass.) Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global licensing and content solutions organization, has launched its DirectPath™ content workflow solution, which connects knowledge workers instantly to the content and rights information they need. DirectPath also provides companies with real-time analytics on content usage and spending to prioritize future purchases. Read the…
(2 June 2014, Oakland, Calif./PRNewswire/) -iParadigms, creators of Turnitin, today announced the company has reached a definitive agreement to be acquired for US$752 million by Insight Venture Partners, a leading global private equity firm focused on high-growth investments in the technology sector, and GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund. iParadigms is a leading provider of cloud-based…
(27 May 2014, Bristol) IOP Publishing (IOP) has today announced the launch of a three-year pilot project under which 20 participating universities will be able to offset the majority of their expenditure on hybrid article publication charges (APCs) in IOP journals against their subscription and licence fees. The agreement follows discussions between IOP, Research Libraries…
(6 May 2014) Last week, the World Intellectual Property Organization copyright committee ended without agreement on the conclusions of the meeting or its future work, to the dismay of librarians and archivists associations. During the week, numerous representatives of these communities gave vigorous accounts of why a treaty is vital to grant them exceptions to…
(6 May 2014) Discussions by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Standing Committee on Copyright & Related Rights (SCCR) broke down in the early hours of Saturday morning 3 May, after the European Union (EU) attempted to block future discussion of copyright laws to aid libraries and archives fulfill their missions in the digital environment.…
(1 May 2014) From today it is possible to reproduce digital content from the NDL website indicated as copyright-expired, without any submission procedure. For more details, please refer to NDL’s English language site policy. Read the announcement here.
(17 April 2014, Kobe) A growing number of universities in Japan are introducing software systems to detect plagiarism in academic papers amid a recent plagiarism controversy at Riken, the state-backed research institute. And because of a recent ordinance that all doctoral theses must be published on the internet, plagiarism issues need to be identified before…
(25 April 2014) The Japan News is reporting that the Diet has enacted a bill to revise the copyright law to recognize publishing rights for electronic books. Reportedly, rights holders will be able to file suits to stop pirated digital books from being distributed on the Internet. The Japan News has the story.
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