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 [...]
BTB #264: Setting Goals For Self-Publishing
The work of a book author has long been a solitary one. But in 2011, more authors are on their own than ever before – and many like it that way. From Amanda Hocking to Seth Godin – who each have recently self-published best-selling books – the ranks of DIY writers have swelled. As the [...]
PW’s Week Ahead 12.09.11
Amazon.com announces KDP Select, designed to woo publishers and authors to participate in the Kindle store and the controversial Amazon Prime e-book Lending program. Earlier this week, PW’s Andrew Albanese notes, the university libraries that form the digitization initiative known as HathiTrust filed their answer to the Authors Guild suit against them. Elsewhere in the [...]
BTB #263: Google Book Settlement: Good Riddance or Lost Opportunity?
In March, Judge Denny Chin rejected the proposed settlement between Google and book publishers and authors over Google’s book scanning and book search programs. At the recent “Copyright & Technology” conference, a panel of legal experts considered the unanswered questions that decision left behind. Presenting their views were James Grimmelmann of New York Law School; [...]
PW’s Week Ahead 12.02.11
Libraries take the spotlight this week, as PW’s upcoming issue is the ALA midwinter preview. “Monday’s issue will have 15 pages dedicated to libraries—and to no one’s surprise, e-books are part of that package,” Andrew Albanese tells CCC’s Chris Kenneally, noting that Penguin’s announcement that it has pulled its frontlist e-book titles from its library [...]
BTB #262: Reading in the Key of E
Recorded live on Sunday, November 20, at 2011 Miami Book Fair International, a global look at books and reading in the digital age. Featured speakers are Ami Greko of Kobo, and Ana Maria Cabanellas, Argentine publisher and leading figure in the International Publishers Assoc.
BTB #261: Digital Book World On the Move
On January 27, 2010, Steve Jobs held up an iPad for the first time, and a global audience held its collective breath. One segment of that audience were publishing professionals gathered in a New York City hotel. The timing couldn’t have been better: something called a “Digital Book World” was neither speculative, nor about the [...]
PW’s Week Ahead 11.18.11
With Thanksgiving – and Black Friday – approaching fast, PW’s Andrew Albanese attended the Association for Corporate Growth’s second annual retail conference this week. As he reports in Monday’s Retail Nation Column, “Flat is the new up.” Albanese also tells CCC’s Chris Kenneally exactly what a surprisingly candid Mike Edwards – the former CEO of [...]
BTB #260: Previewing Copyright and Technology Conference
Copyright and technology have always been indivisible, whether the technology is the printing press or the iPad. Publishers and authors from Mark Twain to J.K. Rowling have struggled to protect their work from infringement, and while innovation may sometimes offer anti-piracy solutions, it can also make distribution of illegal copies faster and easier. Wednesday, November [...]
