copyright

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/9/2023
  

  A Ruling that Threatens the Future of Libraries

  by Adam Serwer

  The Internet Archive is at the center of a case that would effectively require libraries to pay fees to lend electronic scans of books they properly own. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/30/2023
  

  Libraries Need More Freedom to Distribute E-Books; Publishers' Profit Stands in the Way

  by Dan Cohen

  A ruling against the Internet Archive will prevent a library from lending a digital scan of a book it owns, making access to them contingent on a publisher's willingness to create a separate digital version. The implications for libraries as holders of knowledge are dire. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  10/6/2020
  

  Led Zeppelin Victorious in 'Stairway to Heaven' Plagiarism Case

  Representatives of the estate of the late Randy Wolfe, who claimed authorship, said the case nevertheless proved its point that "Led Zeppelin are the greatest art thieves of all time."

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/10/2020
  

  Modigliani Expert Says a Nonprofit Is Holding His Research ‘Hostage’

  Marc Restellini, an art historian, is fighting the Wildenstein Plattner Institute over the ownership of a research archive he spent decades compiling.

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• SOURCE: Scholarly Kitchen
  4/2/2020
  

  The Internet Archive Chooses Readers

  by Karin Wulf

  To elevate the needs of the reader above all others is to dismiss the labor of archivists, authors, compositors, designers, editors, librarians, marketers, metadata creators, and all the other myriad people involved in bringing knowledge into being and into the marketplace.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  3/24/2020
  

  In Blackbeard Pirate Ship Case, Supreme Court Scuttles Copyright Claims

  Ruling unanimously, the U.S. Supreme Court said that a videographer who spent two decades documenting the salvaging of Blackbeard's ship cannot sue the state of North Carolina in federal court for using his videos without his permission.

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• SOURCE: Special to HNN
  4-16-13
  

  Jim Cullen: Review of Alex Sayf Cummings's "Democracy of Sound: Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century" (Oxford, 2013)

  Jim Cullen, who teaches at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York, is a book review editor at HNN. His latest book, Sensing the Past: Hollywood Stars and Historical Visions, was recently published by Oxford University Press. Cullen blogs at American History Now.