British Library set to launch its International Non-Commercial Document Supply service - December 22, 2011
The Publishers Licensing Society (PLS) has agreed an extension of the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) Document Delivery Licence with the British Library that allows the licensed supply of articles to overseas non-commercial end-users via overseas not-for-profit libraries at a special fixed rate. The British Library… Read More
US Senators seek investigation into Google’s search results - December 20, 2011
US Senators Herb Kohl and Mike Lee are reportedly urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate whether Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, unfairly favours its own properties in search results. Kohl and Lee, both members of the Senate’s… Read More
American Medical Association selects CCC’s RightsLink for copyright permissions - November 30, 2011
Non-profit copyright licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), US, has announced that the American Medical Association (AMA) has implemented RightsLink for all AMA medical journals. This includes AMA's flagship journal, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). RightsLink is CCC's point-of-content licensing… Read More
Wiley-Blackwell joins CrossMark service to ensure content integrity - November 30, 2011
Wiley-Blackwell, the STM and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons Inc., US, has announced that it is a participant in the CrossMark service from CrossRef. CrossRef is a multi-publisher initiative to provide a standard way for readers to identify and locate the publisher-maintained version… Read More
W3C announces first draft of standard for online privacy - November 15, 2011
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published two first drafts - Tracking Preference Expression (DNT) and Tracking Compliance and Scope Specification - for standards that allow users to express preferences about online tracking. With this move, the consortium seeks to address rising concerns about privacy… Read More
Tutoring site settles copyright and trademark infringement claims of higher education publishers - November 10, 2011
Five major higher education publishers have entered into a settlement with the online tutoring site Student of Fortune, Inc. to resolve claims for copyright and trademark infringement. The publishers include The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Cengage Learning,… Read More
CCC disseminates over $170 million to Rightsholders in FY11 - October 27, 2011
Non-profit copyright licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), US, has announced a record royalty payment of $171.1 million to rightsholders in FY11, an increase of more than 10 percent over the previous year ($154.3 million). During the last 10 years, CCC has distributed more… Read More
Director of US Copyright Office announces priorities, special projects for next two years - October 26, 2011
Non-profit copyright licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), US, has welcomed the announcement by the US Register of Copyrights, Maria Pallante, of her priorities for the next two years. Register of Copyrights Maria A. Pallante recently made public her office’s priorities and special projects… Read More
Authors groups join lawsuit against HathiTrust over orphan works - October 7, 2011
The UK Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society, the Norwegian Nonfiction Writers and Translators Association, the Swedish Writers Union, the Writers’ Union of Canada, and four individual authors are among the new plaintiffs in an amended complaint filed recently in the Authors Guild v. HathiTrust case. Individual… Read More
Google asks US court to dismiss lawsuit over Microsoft-only cloud contract - September 27, 2011
Internet search services provider Google, Inc., US, and one of its resellers have reportedly asked a federal court to dismiss their case against the US Department of the Interior over Microsoft-only bids for cloud-based services. In October 2010, Google and Ohio-based… Read More
