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Google Books adds open-standard downloads
For anyone using any kind of electronic reader – including a regular computer – this addition to Google Books may well prove quite useful: EPUB as a download format.
August 2009 / 2 min.
The case of the disappearing case law
The cloud consists of data and services that live on someone else’s servers. Although the term itself is new(ish), the basic idea is embodied by traditional legal research services like LexisNexis and Westlaw – data lives on someone else’s servers, not your own. Thus, someone else controls the data, not you. And someone else can delete or modify the data, and you’d never know…
August 2009 / 2 min.
Should the government need a warrant to access your Google Books history?
Should accessing content via the Google Books service provide the same protections as one would receive when relying on a bookstore? The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the ACLU say, “Yes.”
August 2009 / 2 min.
What modern copyright law means to our culture
What does it mean to our culture that we have imposed the most draconian restrictions on the reuse of intellectual creations than at any other time?
August 2009 / 2 min.
What does it mean to be in the public domain? Thoughts about the AP licensing scheme.
The AP has begin trying to license content through a payment scheme. Some of the content – as recently demonstrated by James Grimmelmann “purchasing” a Thomas Jefferson quote – is in the public domain. Does the AP have the right to sell/license this public-domain content? What does it mean to be in the public domain?
August 2009 / 3 min.
Different social networks for different purposes
Different social networks serve different purposes. Keep them straight, but always remember that what you post online could end up anywhere and post accordingly.
August 2009 / 2 min.
Can Amazon’s Kindle disrupt the current textbook market?
BizOp News asks the question: “Is the Kindle DX: Amazon’s 9.7” Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation) a disruptive device for the textbook market?”
July 2009 / 2 min.
Applying DRM to the news
The AP wants to apply DRM to the news. It won’t work. I get the frustration on the AP’s part. The world is changing, and they haven’t figured out to prevent that. They can try for legal changes, try DRM, or adapt. Adapting is hardest, but the only way to succeed long term.
July 2009 / 2 min.
Does selling access to court-filed attorney briefs violate copyright law?
California courts are turning over attorney work product to for-fee services like LexisNexis and Westlaw, which then resell them (or merely make them available?) to customers. Does this violate copyright law?
July 2009 / 2 min.
Amazon apologizes for Kindle fiasco
Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com apologizes for the 1984 Kindle fiasco.
July 2009 / 1 min.