http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm Duke's source for advice and information about copyright and publication issues Sat, 17 May 2008 20:37:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Congress has been talking a lot recently about the farm bill and war spending. But amidst all that rhetoric and wrangling, some copyright work has also been done in the past two weeks. For one thing, the House passed the so-called PRO-IP bill last week, fortunately without its ... http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/2008/05/17/getting-off-the-copyright-merry-go-round/ I have been traveling a lot recently, and I use time on airplanes to catch up on articles I want to read. As always, Bill Patry’s blog is a great source for citations to interesting topics, and I was particularly taken by an article he recommended recently – “Copyright ... http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/2008/05/09/happy-birthday/ I have written several times before about scholarship in the field of law (here, for example, and here). For a variety of reasons, legal scholarship is an excellent laboratory for experiments in changing the traditional structures and economics of scholarship. Both open access and informal forms of scholarship ... http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/2008/05/05/access-to-legal-scholarship/ Two proposals on Orphan Works were introduced in Congress last week, one in the House of Representatives and a slightly different one in the Senate. Both bills are more complex than the version introduced and then largely ignored by the 109th Congress, but the core principle is the same ... http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/2008/04/28/how-bad-are-orphan-works-bills/ Events of the last week have delayed me from writing about a conference held at the Duke Law School on April 12, but I do not want to forget to share what was a very exciting and stimulating experience. Scholars from the US and the European Community gathered to ... http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/2008/04/24/links/ I am not much of a drinker, but I guess I can be intemperate in other ways. The Chronicle of Higher Education called my last blog post, about the lawsuit filed against Georgia State University, "fighting words." I think that is journalistic hyperbole, but I do want to ... http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/2008/04/21/temperence/ Two interesting lawsuits came to my attention recently, one decided in February by the federal district court in Los Angeles and the other just filed in the district court in Atlanta. The new case involves a challenge by three publishers to the electronic reserves practices at Georgia State University, ... http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/2008/04/16/sue-state-u/ Last week BioOne unveiled its new “Model Publication Agreement,” with an announcement that ought to generate more attention than it has. BioOne is “ a collaboration between scientific societies, libraries, academe and the private sector [that] brings to the Web a uniquely valuable aggregation of the full-texts of high-impact ... http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/2008/04/14/model/ Are getting a lot of attention lately. This is the phrase, used primarily in international copyright discussions and negotiations, to refer to the many compulsory licenses, declarations that an apparently infringing act will not be considered infringement, and restrictions on when a copyright can be claimed that make copyright ... http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/2008/04/07/limitations-and-exceptions/ I have been very neglectful of posting for the past two weeks, mostly due to the pressures of other work, but the attention paid to the recent court decision involving the online plagiarism detection service Turnitin has finally provoke me enough. Turnitin is a web-based service that compares submitted papers to ... http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/2008/03/27/turnitin/