Last Tuesday, in the case of Kirtsaeng vs. John Wiley & Sons, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to uphold the “first sale” doctrine for materials purchased from non-U.S. sources. This ruling allows legal purchasers of copyrighted material from overseas to … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Another copyright case, another victory for libraries
Tag: copyright
Conference report: “Adventures in Copyright: Navigating Your Way Through Intellectual Property”
I recently traveled to Baltimore to spend three days among “my people” at the Center for Intellectual Property symposium. My people, of course, are those who spend a lot of their professional lives thinking about copyright. Just a few weeks … Continue reading →…Continue Reading Conference report: “Adventures in Copyright: Navigating Your Way Through Intellectual Property”
Faculty Authors – Retaining Your Author Rights
Faculty, before you sign that next publishing contract, read the information about retaining your author rights by adding an addendum to your publisher’s contract. Links to this information may be found at the bottom of the LIS for Faculty page (shortcut http://go/lis4faculty). Or you can use these direct links:
Retaining your rights as an author
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discussion of video and copyright
This is from one of the lists that I am on, and seemed worthy of broader distribution via the LIS Blog.
The Association for Information and Media Equipment has recently challenged one of our institution’s copyright compliance regarding the posting of video on university servers for instruction. As we understand it from the press, this […]…Continue Reading discussion of video and copyright