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Gigi Soto in Internet, Libraries, Thinking

Nov 17, 2015

Libraries and Ebooks: A Copyright Story

Electronic books (Ebooks) have become a popular form of literary media in recent years. Even though they have existed for decades, Ebooks increased popularity can be attributed to electronic carriers developed exclusively for reading Ebooks, such as Kindles. A…

Kathryn Hoover in Internet, Libraries, Thinking

Dec 10, 2015

“Perpetual Copyright” and Peter Pan

One of the copyright readings for class mentioned perpetual copyright very, very briefly (found here). They mentioned Peter Pan as an example. All I knew about Peter Pan was that a hospital owns the copyright, so I went on a little mini copyright adventure to find…

Patricia Chavez in Internet, Libraries, Thinking

Dec 10, 2015

Mickey Mouse vs. the Public Domain

American copyright law can be a tricky thing. Originally, it was not quite as bad: when a work entered the public domain was a fixed term based on its first publication. In 1978, it was extended to fifty years past the life of the author, and in 1998, to 70 years past…

Paul Rubio in Internet, Libraries, Thinking

Nov 2, 2015

A Massive Project Getting Close to Boundaries

A United States appeals court made a ruling in favor of Google and its book scanning project against authors who sued for copyright violations.

The three-judge appeals panel concurred with the decision of Judge Denny Chin…