Universal will donate more than 200,000 master recordings from the '20-40s, to be published on the Web. [13jan11]
Universal will donate more than 200,000 master recordings from the '20-40s, to be published on the Web. [13jan11]
"Once again, absolutely nothing enters the Public Domain this year". [04jan11]
A new landscape of possibilities for research and education in the humanities. [17dec10]
How can a layperson figure out the 'finer points' of copyright duration? [10oct09]
In a quite detailed post, Tyler Ochoa explains how and why the estate of James Joyce agreed to pay Stanford Professor Carol Shloss $240,000 for her attorneys fees stemming from a lawsuit over her "fair use" right to quote from Joyce's unpublished letters.
The story underlines the "ridiculously complicated" U.S. law on copyright duration.... and the actual difficulty (impossibility?) to correctly understand and apply the 'finer points' of such law.
Read the full story, also relaunched by EFF's Fred Von Lohmann.
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