US judge weighs Google book copyright case - September 24, 2013
A federal judge on September 23, 2013, pointedly questioned attorneys for the Authors Guild in a long-running case on whether Google's book-scanning project violates copyright law. The two sides presented oral arguments in a hearing on whether the case should be dismissed, or whether the authors… Read More
BMJ selects CCC’s RightsLink for Open Access to manage APCs for its publications - September 5, 2013
Licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), US, has announced that medical knowledge provider BMJ has selected CCC's RightsLink for Open Access to manage Article Processing Charges (APCs) for its Open Access publications. BMJ (formerly BMJ Group) advances healthcare worldwide… Read More
Authors Guild disputes Google’s fair use claim - September 3, 2013
Internet search services provider Google’s scanning of books does not meet the legal definition of 'transformative,' creates potential harm to authors and other copyright holders, and is not protected as fair use under the law, the Authors Guild argues in a brief recently filed in the… Read More
Creative Commons CC0 waiver to become part of BioMed Central’s Copyright and License Agreement - August 22, 2013
Open access publisher BioMed Central has announced that the Creative Commons CC0 waiver will become part of the BioMed Central Copyright and License Agreement on September 3, 2013. For articles submitted from this date, CC0 will apply to data in all articles published by BioMed Central… Read More
CCC adds eight publishers to Get It Now academic solution - August 8, 2013
Licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), US, has announced the addition of eight new publishers to its Get It Now academic solution. The new publishers are Advanstar Communications, Inc., HealthCom Media, IGI Global, Intellect, Project Hope/Health Affairs Journal, SPIE, Springer Publishing Company, and W.S.… Read More
Department of Justice proposes remedy to address Apple’s price fixing - August 5, 2013
The Department of Justice and 33 State Attorneys General have submitted to the court a proposed remedy to address Apple Inc.'s illegal conduct, following the July 10, 2013, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York decision finding that Apple conspired to fix the… Read More
UC Davis Library joins Google Book Digitisation project - July 30, 2013
The UC Davis Library has become the 6th UC site to participate in the Google project, joining NRLF, UCSC, UCSD, UCLA, and UCSF. In June 2013, the UC Davis Library began sending public domain (out-of- copyright) books and journals to be digitised as part of UC's… Read More
CCC announces enhancements to its ‘Get It Now’ academic solution - June 28, 2013
Licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), US, has announced enhancements to its award-winning Get It Now academic solution. This includes the integration of OCLC's ILL Fee Management (IFM) Service and the addition of five new publishers - ME Sharpe Inc., Human Kinetics, Akademiai Kiado,… Read More
Karger Publishers automates licensing process with CCC solution - April 4, 2013
Licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), US, has announced that Switzerland-based Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers has implemented CCC's RightsLink Premium to manage copyright permissions for its journals and books. RightsLink Premium supports a publisher's online strategy by providing its customers with instant… Read More
CC-BY license option now available on 42 NPG journals - April 3, 2013
Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, now offers authors a wider choice of journals using the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license. NPG and its publishing partners have introduced the CC-BY license option on twenty-two further journals, including Nature Communications. Of the 61 NPG journals that… Read More
