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Google resumed its controversial book-scanning initiative on Tuesday, despite the objections of several publishers and two pending copyright-infringement lawsuits. The initiative, “Google Print,” is a multi-year project to digitalize the contents of five of the world’s largest research libraries, including Harvard’s. Stanford, the University of Michigan, Oxford, and the New York Public Library have also partnered with Google on the effort. In August, Google temporarily halted the scanning of works that are under copyright protection but said that scanning would resume...
...Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed a new round of 745 copyright infringement lawsuits against users of online file-sharing programs, including three Harvard network users, the organization announced Friday. According to RIAA Spokesperson Jenni R. Engebretsen, the new litigation includes 75 suits targeting users of university networks for allegedly sharing copyrighted music on i2hub, a software program that allows users to upload and download files over the intercollegiate network Internet2. These lawsuits were filed in “John Doe” format, meaning that the RIAA knows only the IP addresses of the defendants...
...Fifth grade was my first play. A teacher at our school always wrote a play every year. I was originally not in her class, and she asked for me to be in her class, so I starred as Bad Bart in our copyright infringement extravaganza known as “Sundown Oklahoma,” a combination of many different musicals kind of strung together, and it was a lip-synching musical extravaganza, so we had a CD, and then I would mouth the words and do choreography. And that was a stunning success...
...Association of American Publishers (AAP) filed a lawsuit against Google on Tuesday for the search engine’s practice of digitally scanning copyrighted works from several libraries, including Harvard’s, without the publisher’s permission.The AAP’s filing is the second lawsuit this fall against Google and its Print Library Project, which scans volumes at Harvard, the University of Michigan, Stanford University, Oxford University, and the New York Public Library. The Authors Guild, a society of published authors, also filed a copyright lawsuit last month.With its lawsuit, the AAP is seeking a declaratory...
...only “real pictures you or your buddies have taken while you have been deployed.” Nominally discouraging plagiarism, NTFU “does not want already published pictures that were taken by news people.” Avoiding more than the legality of copyright, NFTU pushes issues of decency—inciting soldiers to produce incendiary, warnographic pictures.The presumed authenticity of these photographs was questioned last week by the Pentagon, whose independent investigation reached no conclusion about the involvement of American soldiers in the website. Despite the failure of Army inquiries to indict soldiers...