ENTRIES TAGGED "copyright"
Industry Questions Raised by "Potter" Encyclopedia Suit
Updated 4/17/08 Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling testified earlier this week against a publisher that wants to release the unofficial Harry Potter Lexicon, a print adaptation of Steven Vander Ark's popular Potter encyclopedia site. From the New York Times: … Ms. Rowling said the proposed Lexicon book flouted her plans to write her own encyclopedia and donate the proceeds to…
Copyright Clearance and Transaction Use Permits
There are times at a conference when several people tell you, “You have to talk to Person-X” and no matter how hard you try to align schedules, it just doesn’t happen. At the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference, for me, that Person-X was John Billington of the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC). John is the Product Manager for New Media at…
OLPC and the Kindle
When I saw the OLPC I just had to tinker around with it. So on an hour train ride home I explored the little OLPC and was quite impressed.
Scholarship and Mass Digitization
I was delighted to hear today that the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has just received a small grant from the Mellon Foundation to study the utility of major mass digitization projects such as Google Book Search, Microsoft Live Book Search, and the Open Content Alliance for scholarship. To paraphrase some of their supporting grant documentation (not presently…
How Google Books is Changing Academic History
Peter Brantley writes in email: "a Berkeley grad student disses the experience of the Berkeley library system and lauds Google." Jo Guldi, the author of that blog entry, wrote: "I was idly trying a search on "roads" to see what sort of a literature would turn up for the period of my dissertation research, 1740-1850. I didn't expect much. I've…
Journalism Through Computer Programming
As I've noted previously, Adrian Holovaty, the creator of Django and the Chicagocrime.org mashup, gives a great talk entitled Journalism Through Computer Programming. I refer to it often in my own talks on the future of publishing. Adrian's point is that the various jobs of journalism — gathering news, exercising editorial judgment, and presenting the story — can all be…