From nicheant at gmail.com Sat May 2 20:11:46 2009
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Subject: [Commons-Law] The Fight over the Google of All Libraries
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The Fight over the Google of All Libraries: A Wired.com FAQ
By Ryan Singel
April 30, 2009
The Google Book Search Settlement has been much in the news recently,
with the Internet Archive, Philip K. Dick’s heirs, consumer groups and
Microsoft registering their objections to the search giant’s agreement
with authors and publishers. And now Justice Department anti-trust
lawyers are meeting with Google about the settlement, raising the
possibility of a full-blown anti-trust court showdown between the
government and the world’s biggest search and advertising company.
It’s a complicated story combining copyright law, anti-trust issues
and the odd problem of orphan books.
It’s also the story of one company’s attempt to create the largest and
most comprehensive library in the history of the world.
Here’s Wired.com’s guide through the thicket of the Google Book Search
Settlement.
Google is a search engine, right? What do words printed on dead trees
have to do with it?
Google claims its mission is to “organize the world’s information and
make it universally accessible and useful.” If that’s your goal, then
a library full of books makes you salivate in hunger for the knowledge
held inside. So in partnership with major university libraries, Google
began scanning and digitizing millions of books in 2002, from ones
like Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales that are no longer copyrighted to the
Harry Potter series to books whose authors and publishers cannot be
located. The idea is simple, and audacious. Make the library of all
libraries by converting every book ever published into an e-book that
can be indexed, searched, read — and sold — online.
That’s cool! Where can I find this?
Go to Google Book Search, for one. You might also see book snippets in
Google’s Web search results.
How many books are in there already?
Google has scanned more than 7 million books as of April 2009.
Can I download or buy old books through Google right now?
Yes and no. Google lets you download any book it has scanned that is
not in copyright in the U.S. anymore – books that have fallen into the
public domain. For other books, it shows up to 20 percent of the text,
and usually includes links to places to buy it online.
What about new books? Are they included?
Most are, but that’s through Google’s Partner project that lets
publishers and authors decide how much or how little of their books go
into Google’s index, as well as letting them get a portion of the
money from ads shown next to their book pages.
How did Google get away with scanning 7 million library books?
Well, there’s no problem with scanning millions of public domain books
so long as you have the cash, cool technology and cachet to convince
some of the world’s best libraries to work with you. As for
in-copyright books, Google says it has the right to scan and index
them, and show snippets online, under the Fair Use doctrine, which
carves out exceptions to copyright holders’ rights. Being a massive
company, mostly loved by users, also helps.
So could I go into the library and legally rip every music CD and
video they have, and put snippets of them online, under the Fair Use
doctrine?
That’s an interesting question. How good is your lawyer and how high
is your bank balance?
Then why did the Authors Guild and the Association of American
Publishers sue Google in 2005?
Well, once they saw Google using snippets of the books in search
results and making money of it, they decided they deserved some of it.
After all, they wrote the books.
Why did Google settle in 2007 if it has the right to do this?
Especially since they have to pay $125 million in lawyer fees and past
royalties?
Well, the settlement gives Google the legal cover to digitize all
books written to date that are still in copyright. For books that are
copyrighted but out-of-print, Google gets to show 20% of the book
online and sell digital copies of it, keeping 37 percent. For books
in-print and copyrighted, Google gets the right to scan the books and
use them for research, and can do more with permission.
What about anthologies or photos licensed for use in a book? How does that work?
Well, that’s complicated. That’s partially why the agreement is 334 pages long.
Why should I care about the settlement at all?
Google. Monopoly. World’s Greatest Library. You do like books, don’t you?
Who manages authors and publishers’ rights if Google is going to be
advertising next to book pages and selling books?
The newly-created Book Rights Registry is in charge of finding rights
holders, collecting and disbursing payouts, setting prices and
negotiating other deals. It’s not unlike the ASCAP system that
collects royalties for song writers, musicians and publishers.
What about libraries?
Every library in the country will get one free subscription for one
computer that will let users read and print any page from the full
text of all the books in Google’s catalog, excluding books still
in-print. Beyond that, libraries and institutions can order additional
subscriptions. The demand is likely to be high. Very high.
What is an author’s role in all this?
Rights holders can go to Book Rights Registry’s database and choose
whether to let Google include their works, sell them online, and show
snippets and ads. They can also opt-out and reserve the right to
negotiate their own terms or sue Google later if Google includes their
works.
How can Google get a monopoly? Can’t the Book Registry negotiate with
other entities that want to do the same thing?
Yes, but only for those authors it can speak for – in other words, the
known authors of copyrighted books.
Is the opposition to the settlement all about the so-called orphans?
Yes. There are more orphans than in a Dickens novel. Google won’t say
how many there are. But UC Berkeley Professor Pamela Samuelson
estimates that 70 percent of books that are still in copyright have
rights holders that can’t be found.
What’s the problem with orphans?
Copyright infringement can be expensive – up to $150,000 per
violation. So if you scan an old book and start selling copies of it,
or displaying chunks of it on the web, and the orphan’s father shows
up one day waving a paternity test in your direction, you could face a
mean copyright infringement suit. Unless you are Google: Since all
U.S. book copyright holders are now plaintiffs in the lawsuit, Google
gets liability protection from authors who abandoned their books by
not registering in its books database. If they show up later, all they
can do is collect a little cash, change their book price or ask Google
to stop selling the book.
Could Google end up with the most comprehensive online library in the
world? Won’t libraries place thousands of subscriptions due to
overwhelming demand? And since there’s only one vendor (Google) and
the Book Registry will set the price, won’t the price be incredibly
high? Or at least climb that way over time?
Bingo.
Why can’t Amazon or Yahoo or Microsoft go to the Book Registry and get
an orphans waiver like Google is getting?
The registry can set rates and negotiate contracts for all authors,
unless they opt-out. But signing away unknown people’s rights to sue?
Only a judge in a class-action lawsuit (or Congress) can do that.
If another company wants to digitize, display and use orphan works
without the Sword of Damocles hanging over its head, it has to start
digitizing without permission, get sued by a reasonable plaintiff and
the go through this settlement process again?
Exactly.
That’s ridiculous. Isn’t there a better solution to the orphan works problem?
Yes. For one, Congress could step up and pass a law about orphan
works. But the last time Congress passed a substantial law about the
length of copyrights it extended them for 20 more years — keeping more
and more books from reaching the public domain. Don’t expect much help
here.
Is a lot of money at stake?
If you think all the value in digitizing the world’s knowledge will
come from selling out-of-print books as e-books for an iPhone, you’re
not thinking like Google is. Think of all the subscriptions that
universities and colleges and high schools and corporations will need
to buy. Think of how search could be improved if you can test your
algorithms on a huge digitized swath of the world’s knowledge. Think
of the data that could be mined from that index, or how a
question-and-answer service resembling artificial intelligence could
be created. Google “the Singularity.” Or better Google Book Search
“The Singularity”.
Why does the Justice Department getting involved? Why I am reading
that it is investigating?
Remember last fall when the Justice Department was hours from filing
an anti-trust lawsuit against Google for its planned ad partnership
with Yahoo? That made it very clear that Justice Department considers
Google to either be a monopoly, or be very close to being one – at
least as far as search advertising is concerned. So when outside
groups wrote the Justice Department with concerns about Book Search,
it’s not surprising that lawyers there started sniffing around the
settlement. Given that Google admits it has met with DoJ lawyers about
the settlement and has to do so again, it’s clear this is more than
just a passing interest for DoJ lawyers, who could make big names for
themselves in the legal world for taking on the search-and-advertising
giant.
When does all this end and I get to start browsing the library of the
future and buying out-of-print books?
Authors and publishers have until September 4 to opt-out or make their
initial choice about what Google can or can’t do with their work. The
federal court’s final hearing on the fairness of the settlement comes
a month later, on October 7. Then the judge has to rule, which could
take months. In the best case scenario for Google, it will have
something resembling the library of the future online sometime in
2010, but given the number of lawyers eying this deal and the
potential amount of money at issue, one can be pretty sure the legal
battle will drag out far into the 2010s.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/04/the-fight-over-the-worlds-greatest-library-the-wiredcom-faq/
From shantanu at sarai.net Tue May 5 16:43:49 2009
From: shantanu at sarai.net (shantanu choudhary)
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 16:43:49 +0530
Subject: [Commons-Law] Workshop for NGO's on Free and Open Source Software
and local language computing
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Hello All,
Sarai(www.sarai.net) and Mahiti(http://www.mahiti.org/), are organizing a
free software workshop in Delhi on June 5th, and 6th. It is aimed at NGOs,
and not-for-profit organizations, looking to migrate to FOSS solutions. Link
for announcement and registration is
http://ngoinabox.mahiti.org/niab-8-coming-soon.
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Regards
Shantanu Choudhary
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Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 00:55:32 +0530
Subject: [Commons-Law] Indian IP laws are the world's most consumer friendly
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Indian IP laws are the world's most consumer friendly
Wed, May 6 01:12 PM
Bangalore, May 6 (IANS) India has been ranked as the country with the
world's most consumer friendly intellectual property (IP) laws since
its copyright regulations allow citizens great freedom to access and
utilise information for educational and development purposes.
This emerged in a study of 16 countries, including economically
advanced ones, undertaken by the Malaysia-based Consumers
International, which calls itself the 'world's only global consumer
advocacy body'.
Consumers International said its first IP Watch List focused on
copyright - which has 'the most immediate impact on consumers' access
to knowledge and thereby on their educational, cultural and
developmental opportunities'.
In the listing which saw India come out on top, the other countries
with good ratings were South Korea, China, the US and Indonesia.
At the bottom of the list were Britain, Thailand, Argentina, Brazil and Chile.
India was rated high (with a B average on a scale of A to F) in terms
of its scope and duration of copyright as well as the freedom of
access and use it gave to home users, content creators, the press and
those in public affairs.
However, despite topping the list, India didn't do so well and got a C
scale in terms of the leeway it allows for disabled users to access
copyrighted work. Likewise, it got only a D when it came to freedom to
access and use copyrighted work by libraries.
Consumers International called for a 'balanced copyright regime in
which the importance of copyright flexibilities and of the maintenance
of a vibrant public domain are upheld'.
India's strengths and weaknesses of its copyright laws - from a
consumer's perspective -were closely studied and the detailed analysis
made available online at http://a2knetwork.org/reports2009/india.
The study praises India's Copyright Act as being 'a relatively
balanced instrument that recognises the interests of consumers through
its broad private use exception, and by facilitating the compulsory
licensing of works that would otherwise be unavailable'.
It points out that 'neither has India rushed to accede to the WIPO
(World Intellectual Property Organisation) Copyright Treaty, which
would expose India's consumers to the same problems experienced in
other jurisdictions that have prohibited the use of circumvention
devices to gain access to legally acquired copyright material'.
The study acknowledges that copyright infringement, particularly in
the form of physical media, is widespread in India. It adds though
that this must be taken in the context that India, although
fast-growing, remains one of the poorest countries in the world.
'Although India's cultural productivity over the centuries and to the
present day has been rich and prodigious, its citizens are
economically disadvantaged as consumers of the culture to which they
have contributed,' says the study, which goes counter to the dominant
trend of pushing for tighter copyright rules and enforcement.
It points to certain limitations - not all libraries can copy works
that cannot reasonably be obtained commercially. Only public libraries
can do so and they can make only three copies of such works.
No explicit rule exists to allow libraries to copy works for users for
the purpose of research or study. Only limited permission is given for
the reproduction of unpublished works by libraries. No provisions
allow for libraries to make preservation or archive copies of material
in their collection.
Of the significant findings, Consumers International said: 'The list
of countries that best support the interests of consumers is dominated
by large Asian economies but they are in odd company with the US,
which has regularly criticised those same countries for failing to
adequately protect and enforce intellectual property rights.'
It suggested that this 'reflects the fact' that US policy makers
'apply double standards when comparing their own copyright system to
systems from abroad'.
It said countries with copyright regimes that 'most disregard the
interests of consumers' was also an 'odd grouping'.
This included the country in which the copyright law was first
developed in the 16th century - Britain.
Together with it were 'developing and transitional economies, whose
outdated copyright laws fail to take advantage of all the
flexibilities that international law allows them to benefit local
consumers'.
Frederick Noronha
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From pranesh at cis-india.org Wed May 20 17:51:29 2009
From: pranesh at cis-india.org (Pranesh Prakash)
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 17:51:29 +0530
Subject: [Commons-Law] CIS Workshops | 2nd Workshop on Web Accessibility |
Bangalore - June 5-7, 2009
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Dear All,
Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) has been a forerunner in
advocating for a national policy for electronic and web accessibility
for persons with disabilities. In addition to seeking a policy reform in
this matter, we are also bolstering our advocacy efforts by organising
trainings and workshops at no cost for web developers across the country
to spread awareness and build capacity in this area in both the public
as well as the private sectors. Our first workshop, which was organised
jointly with UN Solution Exchange and supported by the NIXI, took place
in Ghaziabad earlier this year.
We are organising our second workshop on web accessibility for
developers at Bangalore from June 5th-7th, 2009. The workshop will take
place at the CIS office on Cunningham Road. Registration is free of
charge. If you or any of your colleagues are involved in developing
websites and are interested in making your websites accessible to all
groups in society, including persons with disabilities (approximately 71
million Indians and 6% of the total world population), please register
for this workshop at the earliest.
The trainers are experts in this field from Delhi and Bangalore and have
been working in the field of accessibility for many years.
For more information and registration, please mail Nirmita Narasimhan:
nirmita at cis-india.org or call: 080 40926283.
Regards,
Pranesh
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Pranesh Prakash
Programme Manager
Centre for Internet and Society
W: http://cis-india.org | T: +91 80 40926283
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From pranesh at cis-india.org Thu May 21 18:07:23 2009
From: pranesh at cis-india.org (Pranesh Prakash)
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 18:07:23 +0530
Subject: [Commons-Law] Vancouver proposes going 'open'
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Dear All,
Vancouver mulls becoming an 'open' city, raising interesting questions
of what "openness" means with respect to cities. Is it just openness of
the Mayoral office/municipal administration, or is it something more?
Regards,
Pranesh
=----=
Vancouver enters the age of the open city
Posted By David Eaves On May 14, 2009 @ 3:32 pm In free culture, open
source, public policy, technology, vancouver | Comments Disabled
A few hours ago, Vancouver's city government posted the agenda to a
council meeting next week in which this motion [1] will be read:
MOTION ON NOTICE
Open Data, Open Standards and Open Source
MOVER: Councillor Andrea Reimer
SECONDER: Councillor
WHEREAS the City of Vancouver is committed to bringing the community
into City Hall by engaging citizens, and soliciting their ideas, input
and creative energy;
WHEREAS municipalities across Canada have an opportunity to
dramatically lower their costs by collectively sharing and supporting
software they use and create;
WHEREAS the total value of public data is maximized when provided
for free or where necessary only a minimal cost of distribution;
WHEREAS when data is shared freely, citizens are enabled to use and
re-purpose it to help create a more economically vibrant and
environmentally sustainable city;
WHEREAS Vancouver needs to look for opportunities for creating
economic activity and partnership with the creative tech sector;
WHEREAS the adoption of open standards improves transparency, access
to city information by citizens and businesses and improved coordination
and efficiencies across municipal boundaries and with federal and
provincial partners;
WHEREAS the Integrated Cadastral Information Society (ICIS) is a
not-for-profit society created as a partnership between local
government, provincial government and major utility companies in British
Columbia to share and integrate spatial data to which 94% of BC local
governments are members but Vancouver is not;
WHEREAS digital innovation can enhance citizen communications,
support the brand of the city as creative and innovative, improve
service delivery, support citizens to self-organize and solve their own
problems, and create a stronger sense of civic engagement, community,
and pride;
WHEREAS the City of Vancouver has incredible resources of data and
information, and has recently been awarded the Best City Archive of the
World.
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the City of Vancouver endorses the
principles of:
* Open and Accessible Data - the City of Vancouver will freely
share with citizens, businesses and other jurisdictions the greatest
amount of data possible while respecting privacy and security concerns;
* Open Standards - the City of Vancouver will move as quickly as
possible to adopt prevailing open standards for data, documents, maps,
and other formats of media;
* Open Source Software - the City of Vancouver, when replacing
existing software or considering new applications, will place open
source software on an equal footing with commercial systems during
procurement cycles; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT in pursuit of open data the City of
Vancouver will:
* Identify immediate opportunities to distribute more of its
data;
* Index, publish and syndicate its data to the internet using
prevailing open standards, interfaces and formats;
* Develop appropriate agreements to share its data with the
Integrated Cadastral Information Society (ICIS) and encourage the ICIS
to in turn share its data with the public at large
* Develop a plan to digitize and freely distribute suitable
archival data to the public;
* Ensure that data supplied to the City by third parties
(developers, contractors, consultants) are unlicensed, in a prevailing
open standard format, and not copyrighted except if otherwise prevented
by legal considerations;
* License any software applications developed by the City of
Vancouver such that they may be used by other municipalities,
businesses, and the public without restriction.
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED THAT the City Manager be tasked with
developing an action plan for implementation of the above.
A number of us having been working hard getting this motion into place.
While several cities, like Portland, Washington DC, and Toronto, have
pursued some of the ideas outlined in this motion, none have codified or
been as comprehensive and explicit in their intention.
I certainly see this motion as the cornerstone to transforming Vancouver
into a open city, or as my friend Surman [2] puts it, a city that thinks
like the web [3].
At a high level, the goal behind this motion is to enable citizens to
create, grow and control the virtual manifestation of their city so that
they can in turn better influence the real physical city.
In practice, I believe this motion will foster several outcomes,
including:
1. New services and applications: That as data is opened up, shared and
has APIs published for it, our citizen coders will create web based
applications that will make their lives - and the lives of other
citizens - easier, more efficient, and more pleasant.
2. Tapping into the long tail of public policy analysis: As more and
more Vancouverites look over the city's data, maps and other pieces of
information citizens will notice inefficiencies, problems and other
issues that could save money, improve services and generally make for a
stronger better city.
3. Create new businesses and attract talent: As the city shares more
data and uses more open source software new businesses that create
services out of this data and that support this software will spring up.
More generally, I think this motion, over time could attract talent to
Vancouver. Paul Graham once said that great programmers want great tools
and interesting challenges [4]. We are giving them both. The challenge
of improving the community in which they live and the tools and data to
help make it better.
For those interested in appearing before City Council to support this
motion, details can be found here [5]. The council meeting is this
Tuesday, May 19th at 2pm, PST. You can also watch the proceedings live
[6].
For those interested in writing a letter in support of the motion, send
your letter here [7].
Related posts
* Open Cities: Popularity lessons for municipal politicians [19]
* Wedding Open Source to Government Service Delivery [20]
* From here to open - How the City of Toronto began Opening up [21]
Article printed from eaves.ca: http://eaves.ca
URL to article:
http://eaves.ca/2009/05/14/vancouver-enters-the-age-of-the-open-city/
URLs in this post:
[1] this motion:
http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/cclerk/20090519/documents/motionb2.pdf
[2] Surman: http://commonspace.wordpress.com/
[3] a city that thinks like the web: http://thinkliketheweb.org/
[4] once said that great programmers want great tools and interesting
challenges: http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html
[5] here: http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/mayorcouncil/speaktocouncil.htm
[6] live:
http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/mayorcouncil/councilmeetings/video.htm
[7] here: mailto:mayorandcouncil at vancouver.ca
[19] Open Cities: Popularity lessons for municipal politicians:
http://eaves.ca/2009/05/19/open-cities-popularity-lessons-for-municipal-politicians/
[20] Wedding Open Source to Government Service Delivery:
http://eaves.ca/2009/02/25/wedding-open-source-to-government-service-delivery/
[21] From here to open - How the City of Toronto began Opening up:
http://eaves.ca/2009/02/09/from-here-to-open-how-the-city-of-toronto-begain-opening-up/
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Pranesh Prakash
Programme Manager
Centre for Internet and Society
W: http://cis-india.org | T: +91 80 40926283
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From prabhur at sathguru.com Tue May 26 14:29:32 2009
From: prabhur at sathguru.com (Prabhu)
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 14:29:32 +0530
Subject: [Commons-Law] STEM Annual Event in Technology Transfer and
Intellectual Property, August 19-22, 2009, Hyderabad, India
Message-ID: <20090526085941.05FD82C48034@mail.sarai.net>
Dear all,
Greetings from the Society for Technology Management (STEM), India!
We are happy to inform you that the keenly awaited must attend technology
transfer event in India, the STEM Annual Event in IP and Tech Transfer will
be held at Hotel Taj Banjara in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India from August
19-22, 2009. The event comprises of two events, and interested delegates
have the option of registering for one or both events by completing the
registration form available online at
http://www.stemglobal.org/events2009.html, and sending it back to us with
the requisite fees.
About the Event:
STEM Professional Development Program for Technology Managers (PDP-TM),
August 19-21, 2009
The STEM Professional Development Program for Technology Managers (PDP-TM)
will be held from August 19-21, 2009, and is designed to equip the
participants with the required knowledge and skills to:
* Identify, Manage, and Capture value from intellectual property
* Develop an understanding of protecting intellectual property.
* Explore how marketing, finance and technology units can better
integrate IP in their respective business strategies.
* Examine how to extract maximum value from technology licensing.
* Explore how strategic alliances can leverage competitive
advantage.
STEM Annual Summit, August 22, 2009
The STEM Annual Summit will be held on August 22, 2009 and is designed as a
platform for senior technology transfer and IP personnel to meet, share
insights, discuss and explore ways to maximize their revenue through IP and
technology transfer, and network with one another to creatively and
effectively improve their technology management culture.
Please get in touch with us: Prabhu Ram at
prabhur at sathguru.com, or Akshat Medakker at
akshatm at sathguru.com, in case you have questions or wish to seek
clarifications.
We look forward to having you with us,
Warm regards
Prabhu
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Society for Technology Management (STEM)
Plot No. 15, Hindi Nagar, Punjagutta,
Hyderabad, A.P- 500 034
Ph: (040) 23356975, 23356507, 23350586,
Ext: 240
Mobile: (0) 9966253908
Fax: (040) 23354042
Email: prabhur at sathguru.com
Attend India's first and only must-attend event for technology transfer and
intellectual property management:
www.stemglobal.org/events2009.html
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