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August 8, 2014

Friday News: Google + BN v. Amazon; Plagiarism (Again!); Randy Queen v. Escher Girls; 18th C novel titles

JanetPublishing News18th C fiction / Amazon / Art / Barnes & Noble / book title / copyright / delivery / Fair Use / Google / Literary fiction / plagiarism10 Comments

Google and Barnes & Noble Unite to Take On Amazon – New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco are now test markets for the new partnership between Barnes & Noble and Google that promises same-day delivery to customers. The approach is more personalized, with couriers who actually go to the ... more >

July 18, 2014

Friday News: Conan Doyle estate smacked by SCOTUS, Rupert Murdoch pursuing Time Warner, future-world Archie dies, and new Emily Giffin review drama

JanetPublishing NewsArchie / Book Reviews / cable / Comics / copyright / criticism / Fair Use / public domain / SCOTUS6 Comments

Sherlock Holmes and the mystery of copyright – So the Conan Doyle estate has asked the US Supreme Court to stay the 7th Circuit’s recent decision. Fortunately, SCOTUS has already rejected the motion.  There is a case to be made for the aggressive protection of an author’s intellectual property rights ... more >

June 11, 2014

Wednesday News: HathiTrust wins against Author’s Guild, Kindle installment plan, book criticism hasn’t changed much, but thankfully love letters have

JanetPublishing NewsAuthors Guild / Book Reviews / copyright / digital access / digital publishing / disability / Fair Use / HathiTrust / Literary Criticism / love letters6 Comments

Fair Use Victory in HathiTrust Litigation – So this is the one about how the Author’s Guild sued the HathiTrust and lost. The HathiTrust — comprised of more than 80 academic and research institutions — created a digital library (the HathiTrust Digital Library) and then digitized more than ten million ... more >

May 22, 2014

Thursday News: English accents of the past, Metropolitan Museum photos now online, is YA too dark, and more on trigger warnings

JanetPublishing Newscopyright / Fair Use / genre criticism. trigger warnings / History / language / photography / public domain / young adult fiction47 Comments

A Linguist Explains What Old-School British Accents Sounded Like – This is a great article that challenges the widely accepted assumption that English folks from, say, the 17th and 18th centuries spoke what we now think of as an English accent (also known as RP, aka Received Pronunciation) instead of ... more >

May 14, 2014

Wednesday News: a new Authors Alliance, writing reviews without litigation, homogenizing and “othering” Africa, and another 19th C marriage manual

JanetPublishing NewsAuthors Alliance / book-covers / defamation / digital rights / diversity / Fair Use / Google / libel / marriage / reviews3 Comments

Founder of Just-Launched Authors Alliance Talks to PW – Into the mammoth-sized vacuum created by the current leadership of the Authors Guild comes a new organization called the Authors Alliance. Set to launch on May 21st, this organization, founded by Pamela Samuelson, UC Berkeley Professor of Law, is setting itself ... more >

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April 14, 2014

Monday News: Authors Guild appeals, digital book sales, digital lending & sales, and another cute video

JanetPublishing NewsAuthors Guild / copyright / digital books / digital lending / digital publishing / Fair Use / Google / Libraries / Self-publishing5 Comments

Authors Guild asks court to rule against Google – From the files of ‘give it up already,’ the Authors Guild has filed an appeal with the 2nd Circuit, obviously unhappy with Judge Chin’s dismissal of their suit against Google. The Authors Guild is claiming that Google is engaging in anti-competitive ... more >

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