At Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Copyright Clearance Center joined with the school and LexisNexis on November 8, 2010 to present The Intellectual Property Lecture Series. In this second of two installments for “Licensing: The Sequel,” CCC’s Vice President & General Counsel Fred Haber and Mark Seeley, senior vice president and general counsel at [...]
Archive | 2010
BTB #201: Licensing: The Sequel (Part 1)
At Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Copyright Clearance Center joined with the school and LexisNexis on November 8, 2010 to present The Intellectual Property Lecture Series. In this first of two installments presenting “Licensing: The Sequel,” entertainment industry attorney Patti Jones and advertising executive Lenora Cushing discuss with Christopher Kenneally why trends in music [...]
BTB #200: Ingram’s Prichard on Reinventing Publishing
At PubWest 2010 in November, Skip Prichard, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ingram Content Group, Inc. delivered a keynote address that urged his audience to embrace the new and rethink the old, when it comes to business models for publishing. By moving boldly, Prichard advised, innovative publishers can revolutionize the reading experience and help [...]
BTB #199: Copyright and the Economics of Creativity
Does the Copyright Royalty and Distribution Reform Act of 2004 sufficiently meet the demands of the digital age? This morning on Capitol Hill, New York Newsday Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellis Henican moderated a lively discussion that addressed this question, and many other critical legislative and regulatory issues. The Copyright Clearance Center-sponsored event wondered out loud [...]
BTB #198: Forrester Reports on eBook Buying Trends
A year that began with the debut of the iPad is about to end with the arrival under holiday trees of all manner of eReaders. The publication of a Forrester Research paper “eBook Buying Is About to Spiral Upward” by James McQuivey, Vice President and Principal Analyst, foresees many more eBooks and many more eReaders [...]
BTB #197: ‘Content’ Gets A Rules Book
“When everything else fails, read the instructions.” That was the sage advice of the Sage of Concord, Henry David Thoreau. Chris Kenneally has just finished reading the instructions for content creation and distribution in the digital age, as written by two pioneers in online communications. This week, he speaks with co-authors Ann Handley and C.C. [...]
BTB #196: A Web Without Cookies
The Semantic Web says Tim Berners-Lee, the man who coined the is “a web of data that can be processed directly and indirectly by machines.” Perhaps more helpfully, it comprises “methods and technologies to allow machines to understand the meaning – or “semantics” – of information.” For online commerce, intelligent semantic technologies will help to [...]
BTB #195: Usability Studies in Textbook Design
“We’re in the midst of a fundamental transformation in the way people read,” declares textbook editor and former English professor Michael Greer. Collaborating with Prof. Tharon Howard of Clemson University, Greer has contributed to the just-published collection, Usability of Complex Information Systems, Evaluation of User Interaction. Their account of textbook usability studies with contemporary college [...]
BTB #194: ‘Bubble Bath Reading’ Mystery Revealed
Taking the mystery out of independent publishing, Jessica Tribble of Poisoned Pen Press reveals the truth about genre authors and how they view technology. “These are people who really have the passion for writing,” she tells Chris Kenneally. “They want to make sure that their word and their content gets out there. The book as [...]
BTB #193: Books Not Required
At the recently-concluded 2010 IFRRO AGM, which gathered hundreds of author and publication associations and their RRO partners to Boston, publishing pundit Mike Shatzkin moderated a panel discussion, Licensing Business Models for the Future. He gave Chris Kenneally a preview, explaining what happens when “books are no longer required” in publishing. “The form factor [of [...]
