At the recent OnCopyright 2012 conference, Robert Levine explained for the audience in a keynote speech how the commonly used language of copyright shapes the debate and makes for confusion on the fundamentals “I don’t think copyright infringement is stealing,” he told the Columbia Law School audience. “The idea that this is stealing, I think, [...]
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BTB #286: Howkins Keynotes OnCopyright 2012
“New ideas, not money or machinery, are the source of success today,” notes author and business consultant John Howkins. In the book, The Creative Economy: How People Make Money from Ideas, and his subsequent work, Howkins has called attention to the economic value of “creative people, creative industries and creative cities” in an era when [...]
BTB #279: Publishing University Arriving in San Francisco
For almost 30 years, the 3,000-member Independent Book Publishers Association has focused its efforts on the success of emerging and experienced publishers through education. For 2012, the IBPA has moved its annual Publishing University event to the West Coast and arrives at the Sheraton Fisherman’s Wharf Hotel in San Francisco on March 9 for two [...]
BTB #276: Publishers Face Future With Growing Concern
This morning, on opening day of the 2012 Digital Book World Conference + Expo, James L. McQuivey, Ph.D., Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, detailed a survey of publishing executives that sees declining enthusiasm about their business chances in the e-book era. “People are generally optimistic still, but that optimism is waning,” McQuivey [...]
Best of BTB: Arab Spring Update
As popular uprisings have spread across the Middle East and North Africa, media pundits have credited Twitter and Facebook. But one Egyptian-born journalist based in New York says the acclaim for social media is misplaced, even though she admits to a Twitter addiction herself. “It was a revolution of courage, rather than a revolution of [...]
BTB #268: Copyright & Commerce Video Podcast: Orphan Works & Fair Use in a Digital Age
On Monday, December 12, 2011, a panel of IP experts and commentators offered their answers and insights into these compelling issues at the Knight Studio in the Newseum in Washington, DC. Cecilia Kang: National technology reporter for the Washington Post helped connect the “wonky” aspects of IP law (as she called it) to people’s real [...]
BTB #267: Copyright & Commerce Video Podcast: Orphan Works & Fair Use in a Digital Age
On Monday, December 12, 2011, a panel of IP experts and commentators offered their answers and insights into these compelling issues at the Knight Studio in the Newseum in Washington, DC. Victor Perlman, General Counsel, American Society of Media Photographers told CCC’s Chris Kenneally, “I despise the phrase ‘orphan works.’ It has the connotation of [...]
BTB #266: Copyright & Commerce Video Podcast: Orphan Works & Fair Use in a Digital Age
On Monday, December 12, 2011, a panel of IP experts and commentators offered their answers and insights into these compelling issues at the Knight Studio in the Newseum in Washington, DC. First to speak with CCC’s Chris Kenneally was Maria A. Pallante: The 12th Register of Copyrights and Director of the United States Copyright Office.
‘Copyright & Commerce’ returns to DC’s Newseum
CCC’s CEO Tracey Armstrong (right) congratulates (from left) Cecilia Kang of the Washington Post, ASMP’s General Counsel Victor Perlman, and Register of Copyrights Maria Pallante, immediately after Monday’s Newseum panel discussion in Washington, DC on “Copyright & Commerce.” Watch the full program:
BTB #265: Copyright & Commerce: Orphan Works & Fair Use in a Digital Age
From the perspective of copyright, 2011 has been a year like so many others in the Digital Age. Suits and counter-suits over copyrighted text, music, film and video continue to fly in and out of court. The long-standing “Google Books” case is, for now, scheduled for trial in 2012, while the HathiTrust — a consortium [...]
