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The article focuses on the Association of American Publishers' response to a U.S. Copyright Office study on artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright law. It mentions that the AAP argues that copyright protection as essential, refuting tech industry claims that fair use permits unrestricted use of copyrighted works by AI developers.

The article an interview with Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi, authors of the book "Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright." When asked about the effect of piracy on people's perception of fair use, Jaszi replies that industry campaigns against piracy have not been able to address the problem. Aufderheide discusses the perception of people towards fair use. Jaszi opines that education is a fundamentally transformational process.

The author discusses the potential impact of the U.S. Judge Denny Chin's ruling that the Google Book Search product of the Internet services company Google Inc., which involves the digitization of books, is permissible under laws of fair use, arguing that the ruling benefits society as of 2013. Topics include the Authors Guild nonprofit organization, electronic publishing, and copyright law.

The article discusses the ongoing litigation between Georgia State University and Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Sage Publications regarding the University's promotion of e-reserves, unlicensed digital copies of course readings used by students. The copyright infringement case deals with issues of fair use and open source materials.

An interview is presented with U.S. congressional staffer Derek Khanna, about his 2012 Republican Study Committee copyright reform report "Three Myths about Copyright Law and Where to Start to Fix It," which was retracted by the committee following objections by film and music industry lobbyists. Topics include political aspects of copyright reform, U.S. participation in international copyright treaties, and fair use of digital content.

An interview is offered with Terry Plum, assistant dean of technology at the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science, about the transition to digital media content and electronic books (e-books) in libraries. He discusses consumer awareness of digital content licensing law, the conflict between digital rights management (DRM) systems and fair use, and the role of Internet service providers (ISPs) in the relationship between digital content providers and libraries.

An interview is presented with Brandon Butler, director of public policy initiatives for the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). He discusses several victories for libraries in 2012 in court cases regarding fair use, the failure of the 2012 U.S. Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill in the U.S. Congress, and legal issues related to electronic books (e-books) access by public libraries.

The article analyzes a court case about a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by academic publishers against four individuals at Georgia State University. The central issues in the case Cambridge University Press, et al. v. Patton et al. are a practice known as electronic reserves on college campuses and the contours of copyright and fair use in the digital age. For publishers, the main problem is e-reserves remain unmonitored and the practice is varied. The court was petitioned to issue a summary judgment and a ruling is expected in March.

"The idea is to facilitate [peer-to-peer] selling", says Roanie Levy, CEO of both Access Copyright and of Prescient. "We hope to turn readers from customers to protagonists who have a role in the in the life of the book, from publication to promotion", says cofounder Tomaso Greco. Another of Bookabook's titles, In attesa degli altri trasmettiamo musica da ballo' (While We Wait, We Broadcast Dance Music) by Melusa Kosgran, about a young boy who dreams of becoming a bicycle-racing champion, has also proven popular; Greco expects sales to exceed 8,000 copies. [Extracted from the article]

The author focuses on the effect of the updated Canadian copyright law to educational and trade publishers in the country. Topics include the adoption of the Fair Dealing Guidelines by the Council of the Ministers of Education, the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, and Colleges and Institutes Canada, the report of nonprofit Access Copyright, and the decline in the quality and quantity of content for students.

The article discusses the impact of the 2012 Canadian Copyright Modernization Act on Canadian publishers of educational material. Topics include the expansion of the number of fair use situations to include education, parody and satire; comments from Erin Creasey, president of the education licensing organization Association of Canadian Publishers; and claims that the education exception has caused what publishers term a significant decrease in textbook orders from college bookstores.

The article discusses the October 10, 2012, decision in the U.S. court case Authors Guild v. HathiTrust. According to the article, digitization proponents and library advocates applauded the decision as a victory for the concept of fair use. The article presents comments from New York Law School professor James Grimmelmann.

The article discusses lawsuits from the Authors Guild against the Internet company Google concerning the Google Books project and the digital content archive HathiTrust. The article reports that motions for summary judgments have been filed in both cases and looks at the trials, which will concern whether the U.S. Copyright Act's fair use provision allows for the digitization of books. Law school professor James Grimmelmann argues that the Authors Guild has not made a convincing case.

The article discusses the status of a copyright lawsuit filed by the Authors Guild against Internet services company Google as of June 2012, focusing on the U.S. copyright law principle of fair use, as well as the alleged unauthorized scanning of books by Google without the permission of the authors of the books. The Authors Guild, which was granted associational standing by a U.S. court in May 2012, argues that Google is profiting off of the work of the copyright holders.

The article looks at the decision in a lawsuit brought by several publishers against Georgia State University (GSU) in Atlanta, Georgia, claiming the university library's provision of electronic copies of unlicensed material to students represented copyright infringement. The decision was largely in favor of GSU, finding on most counts that the university's use of the materials qualified as fair use.

The article focuses on a suit filed by author J. D. Salinger against Swedish writer and publisher Fredrik Colting. Salinger seeks to bar the publication of Colting's novel "60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye" in the U.S., which is claimed to be an unauthorized sequel to Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye." However, Colting says the book is a standalone story that serves as a critique of Salinger and his work. Defense attorney Ned Rosenthal argues that Colting's novel should also be protected by fair use.

The article discusses the U.S. court case involving Georgia State University which was sued by academic publishers for the use of unlicensed digitized copies of books on campus, highlighting Judge Pierre Leval's ruling that consumer electronics firm Google Inc.'s Google Books service is fair use. A background of the case is provided that was filed in 2008 wherein Judge Orinda Evans ruled against the publishers, however it has been remanded in 2015 and asked Evans to re-examine fair use.

The article reports on the affirmation of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on a lower court's decision that the library book scanning project of technology company Google Inc. is protected by fair use in response to the suit filed by the nonprofit organization Authors Guild.

The article discusses changes to Canadian copyright law for access to education materials, focusing on Canada's 2012 fair dealing clause. Topics include claims by publishers and authors that the laws have hurt their businesses; controversy surrounding the addition of education, parody and satire to the list of uses for which material can be freely reproduced; and collective licensing agreements held by educational institutions.

The article reports that Judge Denny Chin dismissed the Authors Guild's lawsuit against Google's mass scanning of library books. The implication of the ruling on digitization is explained. Also discussed are the role of Judge Harold Baer's fair use rule in a parallel book-scanning case, The Authors Guild v. HathiTrust, on the victory of Google and the implications of both cases to fair use advocates.

The article reports on a U.S. district court decision in the case Capitol Records v. ReDigi ruling that consumers may not redistribute lawfully acquired digital files, including electronic books (e-books), for resale. Topics include the effect of resale laws on the development of a used e-book textbook market, patent applications for digital resale models, and the analysis of fair use in the case's appeal.

The article discusses developments affecting libraries in 2012 and highlights potential developments for 2013. Special attention is paid to libraries' offerings of electronic books (e-books), and the American Library Association's (ALA) efforts to educate the public about e-books are noted. Other topics include lawsuits related to fair use, the effects of the Common Core State Standards in education, and public funding for libraries in Seattle, Washington.

The author presents his opinion on the fair use provision in copyright law. Topics include his attempts to obtaining reprinting rights from authors' estates in researching for his book, his struggles with the estates of Ayn Rand and Zora Neale Hurston, and his suggestion that fair use should extend to include provisions for the interpretations of authors' work.

The article discusses the highlights of a webinar discussion titled "What Comes After the Google Book Settlement" held on May 10, 2011 on U.S. Judge Denny Chin's rejection of the book settlement on March 22, 2011. It is noted that all the panelists were in favor of the original position of Google on fair use. The webinar that was co-sponsored by "Publishers Weekly" (PW) and Digital Book World and participated by James Grimmelmann of the New York Law School.

This article focuses on the scanning of the full text of a book by Google Library in 2005. David Drummond, general counsel for Google, firmly disagreed with the position of authors and publishers that the act of scanning an entire work without the permission of the copyright holder--and having that copy reside in Google's search engine--is copyright infringement, even if Google intends to allow the public to view only a snippet of the work. Drummond maintained that copyright laws permit Google to copy a work if that is the only way Google can get to fair use.

Details the `Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia' arrived at in the United States by educational users and representatives of copyright owners. The guidelines developed by the Consortium of College and University Media Centers; Fears concerning uncontrolled dissemination of intellectual property through digital media and the Internet; Opposition to guidelines from the Association of Research Librarians and the American Library Association.

Focuses on an article written by author David Stowe in the `Lingua Franca' magazine, urging readers to exploit fair use to the utmost. Effort to beat `the copyright racket.'