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Publishers’ Lawsuit Accuses Libgen of “Staggering” Copyright Infringement

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Majors Publishers File Copyright Complaint Against Libgen According to a copyright lawsuit filed in the U.S. At least 20,000 of those files were published by plaintiffs Cengage Learning, Inc., Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group, LLC (d/b/a Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill LLC, and Pearson Education, Inc.)

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Marketplace: A Year of Innovation to Meet Evolving Customer Needs

Velocity of Content

Marketplace has had a flurry of exciting new enhancements over the past year based on market needs and feedback from both publishers and customers. Marketplace now displays Open Access license details within article/chapter search results for the uses a publisher makes available under a Creative Commons license.

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CCC at the Charleston Conference 2023

Velocity of Content

CCC is pleased once again to participate at The Charleston Conference , the annual gathering of librarians, publishers, electronic resource managers, consultants, and many others to discuss issues of importance to them all.

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Making College (Textbooks) Affordable

Velocity of Content

Publishing industry analyst Bill Rosenblatt wrote for Publishers Weekly that higher education is the publishing segment undergoing the most disruptive changes today. These new models aim to help more students afford to attend college in their chosen fields of study.

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Introducing a zero-embargo Secondary Publication Right in Bulgaria

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The term encompasses a variety of special regimes empowering (or obliging) authors to retain some of the usage rights over their publicly funded works vis-à-vis scientific publishers in order to facilitate open access to scientific literature. The provision also did not provide for an embargo period.

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A research-friendly copyright system is a flexible copyright system

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In this blog post, originally published on the KR21 blog , KR21 policy committee member Felix Reda analyses the potential for copyright reform in Germany, where the government has included a promise to “promote a more research-friendly copyright” in its coalition agreement. End special treatment of press publishers.

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The New Greek Teaching Limitation after the Implementation of the DSM Directive: A New Era for Teachers, Students and Educational Establishments?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

To benefit, a reproduction must be accompanied by an indication of the source and the names of the author and of the publisher, unless this is impossible. This provision, which has been retained with minor changes, covers only analogue uses and applies only to the reproduction right.