Posts Tagged ‘copyright’

While browsing O’Reilly Media for information about accessibility of their PDF ebooks, I found this statement about “Acceptable Use”.

Plagiarism is constantly in the news these days, as it was in 2006 when Harvard student Kaavya Viswanathan’s How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got A Life was exposed as less then original. But, as we know, claims of literary plagiarism go back centuries. So why do people still get so worked up about it? Mike Pesca reflects on the past, present and future of plagiarism.

Joseph Esposito identifies himself as a traditionalist on copyright (“during the term of copyright, copyright serves the interests of the producer”), but he challenges the assertion that Google is “a taker, not a maker” in Publishing in the Google Ecosystem (in The Scholarly Kitchen)

I received a request recently from David Shields asking to clear copyright to quote from one of my early essays on literacy and disability. He plans to quote one sentence about list-making and the advent of literacy in his forthcoming book, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto.  The sentence is actually a summary statement of ideas in [...]

Lawrence Lessig gave a thought-provoking talk about “the ecology of access to books at the Berkman Center workshop on Alternative Approaches to Open Digital Libraries in the Shadow of the Google Book Search Settlement (073109). Listen now – MP3
My particular concern in the Fair Use Lab is access and accessibility to books, literacies, and cultures [...]