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Publishers’ Lawsuit Accuses Libgen of “Staggering” Copyright Infringement

TorrentFreak

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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Is Your Website Published or Unpublished?

Plagiarism Today

That question is whether the descriptions were “published” or “unpublished” according to the law when they were put on FDN’s website. However, applying terms like “published” and “unpublished” to a website is complicated. That seems to be a pretty clear indication that these pages were not published, as no distribution was intended.

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Beyond Publishers

Velocity of Content

In publishing over the last 20 years, such seismic activity has reshaped the landscape, creating new geographies for the book business. From a bird’s-eye view, publishing industry analyst Rüdiger Wischenbart asserts, our new publishing planet has few major continents. Do books even matter in such exotic territories?

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Challenging Racism in Scholarly Publishing

Velocity of Content

In publishing especially, what is different about our jobs, our professional relationships, and our attitudes? That question – “How have we really changed?” – is the challenge presented by Dianndra Roberts , the Senior Publishing Coordinator for the Royal College of Psychiatrists. But how have we changed? Or “Nothing?”

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Publishers, Internet Archive Agree to Consented Judgment

Velocity of Content

A federal court has approved a consent judgment in the long-running copyright infringement case filed by four publishers against the Internet Archive over its scanning and lending of library books. The post Publishers, Internet Archive Agree to Consented Judgment appeared first on Copyright Clearance Center.

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Do News Publishers “Own” the News? (And Should They be Compensated when Others use News Content they Publish?)?

Hugh Stephens Blog

The issue of whether news publishers should receive compensation when their content is used by “others” (such as internet platforms, specifically Facebook and Google) has become a hot topic in a number of countries of late. And Should They be Compensated when Others use News Content they Publish?)?"

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Books, e-Books, Authors, Publishers and Libraries: A Complex Relationship?

Hugh Stephens Blog

On January 1, 2022, a new law entered into force in the state of Maryland requiring that authors and publishers holding the rights to an e-book title must offer unlimited copies of that title to public libraries in the state at an undetermined “reasonable price” if and when the title is offered to individual consumers.