Post by galacticgirrrl on Feb 1, 2023 3:50:42 GMT
If anyone comes across articles or items in the news dealing with copyright, would you kindly post them here?
I have finally signed up to get updates from EFF but everybody here is so good at spotting interesting items, I thought mentioning it might mean an extra few hundred sets of eyes on the lookout.
The arguments around artistic works seem quite complicated but access to laws I am required to follow is particularly troubling.
Fair Use Creep Is A Feature, Not a Bug
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/fair-use-creep-feature-not-bug
In Hachette v. Internet Archive, four of the biggest publishers in the world, are trying to shut down Controlled Digital Lending, which allows people to check out digital copies of books for two weeks or less and only permits patrons to check out as many copies as the Archive and its partner libraries physically own. That means that if the Archive and its partner libraries have only one copy of a book, then only one patron can borrow it at a time.
In ASTM et al v. Public.Resource.Org, three huge industry associations are trying to prevent a tiny nonprofit, Public.Resource.Org, from posting online standards, such as building codes, that have been made into laws. Our laws belong to all of us, and we should be able to find, read, and comment on them free of registration requirements, fees, and other roadblocks.
I have finally signed up to get updates from EFF but everybody here is so good at spotting interesting items, I thought mentioning it might mean an extra few hundred sets of eyes on the lookout.
The arguments around artistic works seem quite complicated but access to laws I am required to follow is particularly troubling.
Fair Use Creep Is A Feature, Not a Bug
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/fair-use-creep-feature-not-bug
In Hachette v. Internet Archive, four of the biggest publishers in the world, are trying to shut down Controlled Digital Lending, which allows people to check out digital copies of books for two weeks or less and only permits patrons to check out as many copies as the Archive and its partner libraries physically own. That means that if the Archive and its partner libraries have only one copy of a book, then only one patron can borrow it at a time.
In ASTM et al v. Public.Resource.Org, three huge industry associations are trying to prevent a tiny nonprofit, Public.Resource.Org, from posting online standards, such as building codes, that have been made into laws. Our laws belong to all of us, and we should be able to find, read, and comment on them free of registration requirements, fees, and other roadblocks.