Authors Guild accuses Google of hurting millions of authors with Library project - May 7, 2012
A group representing authors in a copyright case reportedly slammed Google in court last week, saying the company's book-scanning project had hurt millions of authors whose works had been digitised. The Authors Guild is seeking class-certification status for its claims case in… Read More
Three US publishers, Apple charged with antitrust violations over e-books pricing - April 12, 2012
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott and 15 other US state attorneys general have charged three of the nation’s largest book publishers and Apple Inc. with conspiring to fix the sales prices of e-books. The states’ antitrust case, which was filed in federal court in Austin, cites… Read More
Wolters Kluwer Health utilises CCC’s RightsLink Premium to automate book publication permissions process - April 5, 2012
Healthcare information provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that its Professional & Education unit has implemented Copyright Clearance Center, Inc.'s RightsLink Premium to manage copyright permissions for its Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) book publications. RightsLink services are already available for LWW journals.… Read More
British Library urges reform as government’s copyright consultation closes - March 26, 2012
The British Library, the national library of the UK, in its evidence to the Intellectual Property Office’s Copyright Consultation which closed on March 21, 2012, has said that changes to the copyright system would benefit UK innovation. Its submission is seen to make the case for… Read More
Google reportedly scaling back books digitisation project - March 12, 2012
Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, is reportedly slowing down its book-scanning work with partner libraries, as observed by librarians involved with the digitisation project. However, it remains unclear what this would mean for the company's long-term investment in the Google Books project. Google has… Read More
Turnitin partners with ProQuest to include dissertations from 2008 to the present - March 8, 2012
Turnitin, web-based solution for plagiarism prevention, has partnered with information resources and technologies provider ProQuest to include more than 300,000 dissertations and theses from 2008 to the present in the Turnitin comparison database. With this agreement, Turnitin seeks to enhance its repository of scholarly content… Read More
Global publishers alliance wins legal battle against Internet piracy entities - February 16, 2012
An international alliance of publishers and publishers’ associations achieved an important success in the combat against Internet piracy recently. Despite significant technical and legal obstacles, the alliance was able to locate the alleged operators of both the sharehoster service www.ifile.it and the link library Read More
Copyright Clearance Center announces OnCopyright Education Certificate Program - February 8, 2012
Non-profit copyright licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), US, has announced its OnCopyright Education Certificate Program, which consists of industry-specific courses that target a variety of user communities and the challenges they face in managing copyright. The programme comprises a series of instructor-led… Read More
The Economist selects CCC’s RightsLink for copyright permissions on its blogs - January 18, 2012
Non-profit copyright licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), US, has announced that The Economist has chosen RightsLink, CCC's seamless point-of-content licensing solution, to handle online copyright permissions on its more than 20 blogs. RightsLink enables rightsholders to offer re-use and other permissions at… Read More
Google seeks to remove groups from Books lawsuits - December 27, 2011
Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, recently filed a motion to dismiss copyright claims against its Google Books project by groups representing authors and photographers. According to Google, the groups could not sue over copyrights they did not own. If granted, only the individual plaintiffs… Read More
