Copyfightthe politics of IPGin, Television, and 100 Wikipedia per Year, for Sharing (Alan Wexelblat)- April 30, 2008 Clay Shirky is one of the better Big Thinkers on the Web today, particularly in the arenas of social media and cooperative interactions. He's published an essay called "Gin, Television, and Social Surplus". In part this is related to his new book Here Comes Everybody but focused around a single idea. The idea is that, contrary to the naysayers, we are doing something, potentially the start of something huge. That something is participating, whether it's in something as erudite as Wikipedia...http://copyfight.corante.com/archives/2008/04/30/gin_television_and_100_wikipedia_per_year... Gaiman, Final Thoughts, and McFarlane (Alan Wexelblat)- April 25, 2008 Gaiman included a few "final" thoughts on copyright. Given how much he's involved himself in the discussion of these issues over the years I seriously doubt this'll be his final word, but perhaps he feels he has no more to say on the Rowling case. In this entry he's reflecting on his own copyright battles with Todd McFarlane over authorship of certain material that Gaiman wrote. He also links to the judge's decision in that case. There are no real parallels that I can see, and Gaiman says as..http://copyfight.corante.com/archives/2008/04/25/gaiman_final_thoughts_and_mcfarlane.php Fair Use, One Author's View (Alan Wexelblat)- April 22, 2008 Gaiman put up a blog entry explicitly calling out fair use. In it he talks about the RowlingRDR Books case, noting that her approach is different from his own in response to 'unauthorized' material that has been put out on him and his writing. He also notes that his own two first books were at best legally shaky in Fair Use terms - an aggressive lawsuit could easily have shut him down from writing anything more. On the one hand that'd be a shame - Gaiman is popular and has gone on to write...http://copyfight.corante.com/archives/2008/04/22/fair_use_one_authors_view.php Publishers vs Academics (Alan Wexelblat)- April 18, 2008 Ms Rowling is not the only one concerned with how much of her work others are taking. Law.com has a report from Janet Conley on a lawsuit by three academic publishers against Georgia State University. At issue are incidents like a 32-page copy made by a music professor. The prof claims that the copying was within University guidelines ("no more than 20%") and that the cost of the volume ($250) was prohibitive for students to purchase. The publishers claim that the U's practice of digitizing...http://copyfight.corante.com/archives/2008/04/18/publishers_vs_academics.php |