Last spring, the European Union passed the General Data Protection Regulation, sending ripples through the Internet as every business — from cottage to multinational —…
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OPLIN 4cast #497: Takedown and staydown
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Last month many well-known popular musicians signed an open letter to Congress to express their dissatisfaction with the current Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). They…
OPLIN 4cast #492: Oracle v. Google
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This blog tends to shy away from the “big” tech stories that have been covered in numerous other blogs and news feeds. In the case…
Any library that has a sizable number of patrons using the library’s public Internet computers has probably seen more than a few copyright infringement notices.…
OPLIN 4cast #376: Less demanding
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Probably more than a few libraries have been on the receiving end of the unpopular Getty Images demand letter. For many years, these letters were sent…
OPLIN 4cast #334: Blind justice
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Digital information and copyright law often do not play well together, so much so that it looks like Congress may be ready to start a…
Nobody gets excited about copyright law (well, almost nobody), but over the years we’ve posted several items of copyright news in this blog, because many…
OPLIN 4Cast #299: Copyright alerts
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Administrators at many of the libraries served by OPLIN have received emails from OPLIN Support passing along complaints about copyright infringement, often tracing back to…
Last week, while many of us were enjoying fireworks in the sky, there were some equally stunning fireworks in international copyright law. Much of the…
After last week’s 4cast about possible legal issues for Pinterest users, we thought it might be interesting to look at the legal issues surrounding BitTorrent. Everybody…