As Copyright Clearance Center expands its business models to address a broader set of licensing issues facing its customers, Michael Healy, the newly-appointed Executive Director of Author & Publisher Relations is expected to be instrumental. In September 2011, Healy joined CCC after serving as Executive Director (Designate) for the Book Rights Registry, and previously, as [...]
PW’s Week Ahead 01.06.12
New calendars hang on walls in cubes and offices around the country. It’s 2012, and the only safe prediction for the publishing industry is that twelve months from now, the world won’t look anything like it did in January. For the first program of the New Year, PW’s Andrew Albanese offers his suggestions for resolutions [...]
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 #270: For Authors, A Changing World, in Europe & Beyond
Not only publishers feel the impact of the digital revolution. For better and for worse, authors around the world face new questions and new challenges brought by the Internet and the rise of social media. Personal branding and marketing; new income sources and remuneration schemes; copyright protection and licensing; even the act of writing itself [...]
BTB #269: WaPo’s Kang on SOPA, PIPA, and the Creative Economy
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 [...]
Best of BTB: Just My Type
Typefaces, like superheroes, all have origin stories. From Garamond to Georgia, Palatino to Proforma, the look of letters tracks back in time to a single fascinating moment of origination. Joining CCC’s Chris Kenneally to go beyond the book – diving down to the level of individual letters – is Simon Garfield, the author of “Just [...]
PW’s Week Ahead 12.16.11
The Google Books Case has moved forward – now sans settlement – as the Authors Guild recently met an important deadline set forth by Judge Denny Chin in the six-year-old litigation and filed their motion for class certification. “The case is now on a path where the long-running legal drama over Google’s program to scan [...]
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.
