CCC and BISG partner to present a live, three-part webcast series - February 28, 2013
Licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), US, has announced a partnership with book trade association Book Industry Study Group (BISG), to present a live, three-part webcast series 'The Business of Rights' to help publishers, authors and agents better understand, manage and monetize content rights.… Read More
Creative Commons License to apply to all OA content published by De Gruyter - February 15, 2013
Academic publisher De Gruyter, Germany, and Versita will be publishing all Open Access content under the uniform application of Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND, effective immediately. This means that publications may now be copied, disseminated, and otherwise made public by users under the conditions that the… Read More
Google to digitise books from Michigan State University Libraries - February 11, 2013
Books from the Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries will soon be digitised by Google to become part of the Google Books website. Google Books has digitized millions of titles from university libraries and indexed the contents so users can search across the entire set. MSU's… Read More
Portland Press invites authors to use Creative Commons Attribution licence for papers published in ASN NEURO and Bioscience Reports - February 4, 2013
Portland Press Limited, the not-for-profit publishing subsidiary of the Biochemical Society, has announced that it will invite authors to use the CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution) licence for papers published in its two Gold Open Access journals - ASN NEURO and Bioscience Reports. This allows authors to… Read More
British Library welcomes announcement outlining new exceptions to the UK’s copyright framework - December 24, 2012
The British Library, the national library of the UK, recently welcomed the announcement by Rt Hon Vince Cable MP, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, outlining new exceptions to the UK's copyright framework. In particular, the Library welcomes the exceptions that will now allow… Read More
ARL applauds Judiciary Committee’s endorsement of bill to reform privacy laws - December 3, 2012
The US Senate Judiciary Committee last week took a key step toward fixing outdated privacy laws by endorsing a bill proposed by Chairman Patrick Leahy. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has applauded Leahy and all members of the Committee for their stated strong, bipartisan… Read More
Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt and CCC sign 5 year deal for Annual Copyright License - November 30, 2012
Licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), US, has announced that the world's leading US patent firm, Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, LLP, has adopted CCC's Annual Copyright License. Now more than ever, law firms need fast, convenient and intuitive licensing solutions that… Read More
Publishers ordered to pay $3 million in Gergia State University copyright case - November 5, 2012
In a final order in the Georgia State E-reserves case, Cambridge University Press vs. Patton, Judge Orinda Evans directed the publisher plaintiffs to pay the defendants nearly $3 million in legal fees and costs, including $2,861,348.71 in attorneys’ fees and $85,746.39 in other court costs, it… Read More
IOP Publishing moves to CC-BY licence for OA articles and bibliographic metadata - October 25, 2012
Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing, UK, has announced a significant change to its copyright arrangements for research published on an open access basis in the company's wholly owned journals and for bibliographic metadata. As a result of this move, the company will… Read More
Copyright Clearance Center announces ‘Copyright Fundamentals in the Workplace’ Online Certificate Program - October 19, 2012
Licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), US, has announced its 'Copyright Fundamentals in the Workplace,' an Online Certificate Program beginning October 29, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET, and ending on November 2, 2012. The course's three two-hour live online sessions will guide… Read More
