"The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Google today announced a settlement agreement that will provide access to publishers' in-copyright books and journals digitized by Google for its Google Library Project. The dismissal of the lawsuit will end seven years of litigation."
"The article focuses on copyright in higher education and the cost of scholarly publication. It states that academic tenure is often conditional upon publication of articles in high-impact publications. It mentions that under U.S. copyright law, the work-made-for-hire doctrine has the employer owning copyright in said work and comments that universities often cede copyright to professors, who in turn cede it to journals. It talks about open access publication and the need to reform tenure."
"The aim of this article is to analyse the different regulatory and practical solutions proposed both in US and EU scenarios to overcome the orphan works’ issue. Orphan works pose a problem because users, who are legally obliged to obtain prior authorization for making works available to the public, are unable to locate and contact the relevant rightsholders. The size of the problem, in terms of the number of works considered orphans or the value of those works, even if difficult to state with precision, is known to be significant." Weiterlesen
