The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Information Policy, the Census and National Archives announced it will hold a hearing on the issue of public access to federally funded research on Thursday, July 29. The hearing is open and public. The hearing notice says that, “The hearing will examine the state of public access to federally-funded research in science, technology, and medicine. The hearing will assess and delineate the…
Posts By: Greg Grossmeier
New exemptions to anti circumvention were announced on July 26 by the US Copyright Office. Much anticipated and worth reading – they are astonishingly reasonable and helpful for educational, scholarly, and university needs. They include a DVD exemption that includes fair use-type uses explicitly, an exemption for e-book accessibility, an exemption for obsolete security technology, and circumvention for wireless telephones to allow for interoperability. These are stunningly reasonable. Also see this nice piece in the…
The first sale doctrine is an aspect of copyright law that permits libraries to lend books and other materials. There is some alarm although the right is being eroded in the arena of ebooks – as ebooks are subject to licenses that define whether and how the consumer may transfer or share ebooks. The Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) announced today that they are filing a ‘friend of the court’ brief in the case of Costco v. Omega…
The U-M Library Copyright Office offers scholars, researchers, staff, and students clear and straightforward information about copyright and we hope to continue that clear and straight forwardness to this blog. Welcome to our little part of the MPublishing Blog. To give you an idea of things we will talk about, see these news items from earlier this year: [March 3rd, 2010] Melissa Levine, Lead Copyright Officer, University of Michigan, On why fair use and special…