Archive for August 2005
Social Software Could Push Open Access
“Here’s my prediction. The increasing popularity of blogs and RSS feeds will drive an increase in open-access professional journal publishing and will force many traditional, print-based publishers to consider offering at least some form of electronic distribution.
“The online open-access model can reach a wider audience at a faster rate than traditional print publishing can – and blogs and RSS feeds enable this to happen even more.”
The Industrial Librarian. Why Blogs & RSS Feeds Will Help Drive Open-Access Journal Publishing. Aug. 1, 2005.
Blogs & Fair Use
“Sloth can be a deadly sin, or at least a potentially litigious one, and the rise of blogging on the Internet has peaked concern about this pitfall.
“The issue arises because bloggers, many or most of them amateurs, often overdose on cut-and-paste editing, which can result in copyright violations, explained a New York attorney.”
John P. Mello Jr. Bloggers Cautioned About Being Copy Cats. E-Commerce Times. Aug. 4, 2005.
Blogs & Fair Use
“Sloth can be a deadly sin, or at least a potentially litigious one, and the rise of blogging on the Internet has peaked concern about this pitfall.
“The issue arises because bloggers, many or most of them amateurs, often overdose on cut-and-paste editing, which can result in copyright violations, explained a New York attorney.”
John P. Mello Jr. Bloggers Cautioned About Being Copy Cats. E-Commerce Times. Aug. 4, 2005.
Publishers Lose Little in Used Book Market
“The Internet is a bargain hunter’s paradise. Ebay is an easy example, but there are many places for deals on used goods, including Amazon.com.
“While Amazon is best known for selling new products, an estimated 23 percent of its sales are from used goods, many of them secondhand books. In 2002, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers sent an open letter to Jeff Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon.com, which has a market for used books in addition to selling new copies. “If your aggressive promotion of used book sales becomes popular among Amazon’s customers,” the letter said, “this service will cut significantly into sales of new titles, directly harming authors and publishers.
“But does it?”
Hal R. Varian. Reading Between the Lines of Used Book Sales. The New York Times. July 28, 2005.
See also:
Anindya Ghose, et al. Internet Exchanges for Used Books: An Empirical Analysis of Product Cannibalization and Welfare Impact. SSRN. August 1, 2005.
File Sharers Move Beyond Grokster
“Briefly buoyed by their Supreme Court victory on file sharing, Hollywood and the recording industry are on the verge of confronting more technically sophisticated opponents.
“At a computer security conference in Las Vegas on Thursday, an Irish software designer described a new version of a peer-to-peer file-sharing system that he says will make it easier to share digital information anonymously and make detection by corporations and governments far more difficult.”
John Markoff. New File-Sharing Techniques Are Likely to Test Court Decision. The New York Times. Aug. 1, 2005.
See also:
Richard Stallman. The Right to Read. GNU.org. February 1997.
(Editor’s Note: The Times allows free access to their stories on the Web for seven days before sending the stories to the paper’s fee-based Archive.)
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