Just a reminder to all who signed up: We’ll be hosting our first UMass copyright bootcamp on January 13 and 14th, from 10am to 3pm. We were so over-subscribed on the 14th that we added another session on the 13th, and thanks to all who helped us by swapping sessions
Authors Guild v. HathiTrust appears to be settling the sole remaining claim — whether there were any plaintiffs left (after the Authors Guild was rejected as a plaintiff) to challenge the library preservation copying uses of HathiTrust Links: stipulation / settlement, Jan. 6, 2015 (SDNY) (PDF) Authors Guild press release
As predicted, the 11th Circuit declined the opportunity to grant an en banc review in the GSU case (Cambridge University Press v. Patton/Becker). [An en banc review is a review by all the judges of the Circuit, of a decision by a normal appellate panel of 3 judges.] The next decision