3 Count: Glaring Omissions

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1: Meta Criticizes Epidemic’s Copyright Lawsuit Over “Vague Assertions and Glaring Omissions”

First off today, Chris Cooke at Complete Music Update reports that Facebook has hit back at the music production sound Epidemic Sound, alleging that their recent lawsuit filed against them is vague and leaves them trying to guess what they did wrong.

Epidemic filed the lawsuit against Facebook’s parent company Meta. In the claim, they alleged that Facebook does not give them access to tools that would enable them to protect their rights on the service and that several of Epidemic’s songs were included in Facebook clip libraries without their permission.

However, Meta is hitting back alleging that Epidemic’s case is short on details and, though it claims over 950 of its music tracks have been infringed, that there are no specific claims in the lawsuit itself. They further claim that the lack of detail is so great that are unable to “frame a responsive pleading” at this time.

2: AnyStories Drags Cloudflare to the Copyright Claims Board Over Pirate Site

Next up today, Ernesto Van der Sar at Torrentfreak writes that the reading app AnyStories has filed a claim with the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) against the content delivery network (CDN) CloudFlare.

According to the case, they sent notices of infringement to Cloudlare and the company, as per its policy, forwarded the notices to the actual host of the site and provided AnyStories with the contact information. However, AnyStories claims that the information provided was inaccurate and, as such, accuses Cloudflare of failing in its duties as a CDN.

Rather than filing the case with a regular court, AnyStories has opted to go with the CCB. Such cases are significantly cheaper to file, but there are limits on the damages that can be awarded. Also, the respondent, Cloudflare in this case, can simply opt out of the proceedings.

3: Best-Selling Organic Chemistry Textbook Becomes Open Access

Finally today, Dalmeet Singh Chawla at Chemistry World reports that academic author John McMurry has regained the copyright in his popular textbook, entitled Organic Chemistry, and has re-released the book as an open access work.

McMurry first published the book in 1984 through the publisher Cengage Learning. The book went on to become one of the most popular in the field. However, the agreement that McMurry had with his publisher meant that the book’s copyright was returned to him 30 years after the first printing. Now, without control of the first edition, Cengage is unable to print any new editions.

Today, McMurry is working on the tenth edition of the book and plans to release it next summer on OpenStax. Current editions of the book sell for approximately $80 in the United States, though digital editions of the tenth will be available for free as a digital download.

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