If a hundred monkeys type out shakespeare, is it copyrighted? What about if one monkey takes a selfie? Hi folks, Next week, Thursday, September 4, from 3 to 5pm, we’ll hold a discussion session in Room 1320 on the “monkey selfie” — is it copyrightable? should it be? why or why not? Photographers, animal rights…Continue Reading Discussion on the Monkey Selfie: Copyright and Authorship
Month: August 2014
Pure beach reading
On the new Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices, Eriq Gardner at Hollywood Reporter made me LOL: “It’s 1,222 pages of pure beach reading”…Continue Reading Pure beach reading
California public health OA mandate
Curious that California’s AB 609 (public health open access mandate) has a sunset provision. Still, yaay, mostly. http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB609 ……Continue Reading California public health OA mandate
Copyright Updates (August 14, 2014)
Copyright Updates August 14, 2014 Fair Use Cases Authors Guild v. HathiTrust (2d Cir. June 10, 2014) The Second Circuit, also known as the “copyright circuit”, handed down a significant victory for HathiTrust on June 10, 2014. The short version is that the Second Circuit found that a) full-text indexing is “quintessentially transformative”, hence presenting…Continue Reading Copyright Updates (August 14, 2014)