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...notion of the final fixed copy is giving way,” he said. “Texts are always in flux.” In 2004, Harvard signed an agreement with Google to have the company digitize its holdings of books that are not restricted by copyright. Darnton said he was enthusiastic about the Google project. But he cautioned that digitization in general, and the rising demand for online resources, is requiring a big investment in time and staff. Darnton said he expects the Google project to be finished by the end of next year. —Staff...
...rare books and illuminated manuscripts is good enough to capture “incredible drawings of plants and animals” and “fine pencil marks.” Launched in late 2004, the Harvard-Google Project encompasses only the books that are not under copyright protection. Over a million books are affected by the project, though that is a fraction of the University’s holdings of over 15.8 million volumes. The Internet search firm is also collaborating with other university libraries in the project, including those at Princeton and Stanford Universities...
Sitting under a banner emblazoned with the words “Digital Freedom,” NBC Universal representative David E. Green advocated continued harsh punishments for the reproduction of copyrighted media, responding to criticism from consumer rights and intellectual freedom activists at a panel on Wednesday. About 35 students from the College and Harvard Law School (HLS) gathered in Boylston Hall to hear Green, joined by Jason D. Oxman, vice president of communications at the Consumer Electronics Association, and legal scholar Wendy M. Seltzer ’96. The panelists sparred over issues including copyright law, digital rights management...
...booked revenue of nearly $2 million for the 2,500 chairs it sold to McDonald's, and has requests for more chairs from several European outlets. These orders, the company says, will not be filled. That means fast food fans on the Continent - with its stricter design rights and copyright laws - won't be eating their Big Macs sitting on a Jacobsen, real or reproduction. But, a spokeswoman for McDonald's Europe is quick to point out, "this impacts just one of a catalogue of re-image options." Instead, "we will look at using alternative chairs by other designers...
...limit academic freedom” because existing software cannot distinguish between legal and illegal downloading, and would place pressure on universities. “It would require them to allocate resources at the bidding of the entertainment industry, to report on work done to enforce others’ copyrights, to implement impossible technologies, and to be named-and-shamed if they ended up on the ‘25 worst’ list,” Seltzer wrote in an e-mail. The legislation calls for the U.S. Secretary of Education to identify the 25 colleges and universities with...