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Librarians Read Reviews Then Order

Online Disputes Expose Publishers' Copyright Vulnerability
By Eriq Gardner IP Law & Business 03-06-2006
When book publishers rallied against Google's library book scanning project last year, they accused the tech giant of stealing. In a lawsuit filed in New York federal court, the publishers claimed that if Google Inc. made digital copies of library books available online for search purposes, the tech company would be committing massive copyright infringement. But then one book publisher, HarperCollins, tried to steal a page from its antagonist's playbook, announcing that it would make its entire backlist, about 20,000 titles, including such classics as"Charlotte's Web," available online. Publishers didn't have a problem --
but book authors and their lawyers did a double take.

Google settlement: Changing Defaults
Back in 2004, Google felt quite strongly that its “Book Search” project was a fair use of copyrighted material.  It kept pointing out that it wasn’t displaying complete copies of books covered by copyright.  Instead, it scanned the material and then displayed snippets from these books in response to queries. The bottom line:  In 2004, Google thought it was shaping its conduct according to the law.  But Google’s lawyers also have to shape the working situation in which Google operates.  That working situation, from 2004 until 10/8/08 has involved great bitterness coming from publishers who could otherwise be Google’s allies.  The pure legal principle of the fair use argument, weighed against that bitterness and the possibility of a win-win deal, had to defer.

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Midwest Book Review Jim Cox Midwest Book Review
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NewPages Guide to Review Sources

CCH site puts out a free tax booklet for writers.
Call 847-267-2038 or write mediahelp@cch.com to request one. Click on Press Center, and scroll down to the bottom of the Press page. You'll see a link to click in order to add your name to the distribution list for future CCH resources.

"International Directory of E-Mail Addresses of Publishers, Vendors and Related Professional Associations, Organizations and Services" There is no fee for the listing. AcqWeb is a non-commercial home page maintained by acquisitions librarians for the benefit of the international library community. AcqWeb provides open access to the information collected on its files. AcqWeb is an all volunteer effort. You can view AcqWeb at http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/law/acqs/acqs.html and the E-Mail Directory http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/law/acqs/email-ad.html


The library of Congress provides two types of classification to books it catalogs for its collection.
Subject classification applies verbal subject terms to a book which describe the books overall content. Frequently the Library of Congress subject headings applied to a book may be found in the book itself on the reverse side of the title page. These subject headings are provided in a subject heading thesaurus, similar in structure to the thesauruses used for databases like ERIC, MEDLINE and other bibliographic databases. The thesuaurus for the Library of Congress is a multi-volume publication.

Subject Cataloging Division, Processing Dept.
Library of Congress, 1997

Like the subject heading words assigned to a book and provided on the subject catalog records (they were once printed cards filed alphabetically in drawers), the call numbers assigned to a book in both Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress classification are an assignment of to the book of a numerical statement of its most specific subject, the topic the book is most about, no easy task in today's times of complex interdisciplinary topics. The Dewey Decimal system is a rigid and limited system that permits little subdivision because the numbering system is so tightly utilized. The classification scheme is laid out in two volumes, a classification volume and an index volume. Dewey is most suitable for small topically diverse collections such as small rural public libraries.

The Library of Congress Classification system is published in over twenty volumes and each volume covers a Library of Congress Class or part of a class. The class would be one of the basic letters in the system such as class A which would be for general publications or class H which would be for social sciences or class Q which is devoted to the pure sciences. In class H the second letter subdivisions would include divisions like H itself for publications that are broadly social science, HA for statistics publications and publications of statistical data not specific to some subject field like education or banking. Class HB is for economics while class HC is for economic history. Numbers within each class further subdivide the subject field to specific subtopics within the discipline. The Library of Congress subject classification (call number) system is so precise that there is actually a Library of Congress classification designation for historical books about Walnut Street in Philadelphia. It is also a porous system that has a great deal of unused classification destinations throughout the system at all levels of the classification hierarchy.
Here is the catalog record for one of the volumes in the Library of Congress classification multi-volume set:

Corp author Library of Congress. Subject Cataloging Division.
Title Classification. Class P, subclasses PL-PM : languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania, hyperborean, Indian, and artificial languages / Subject Cataloging Division, Processing Services, Library of Congress.
Imprint Washington : The Library : For sale by the Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress, 1988.

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18 MILLION: This is Why anyone would want to officially bother to have their work copyrighted.

Settlement in Freelance Writers' Suit By REUTERS March 30, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/30/business/media/30freelance.html

The writers' representatives said that publishers including The New York Times Company; the Time Inc. unit of Time Warner; and Dow Jones & Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, had agreed to pay writers up to $1,500 for articles with copyrights registered by the writers. Writers who failed to register their copyrights will receive up to $60 an article, the writers' group said.


Writers Settle With Databases for $18M
03.29.2005, 04:46 PM Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/ap/2005/03/29/ap1912099.html

A group of companies that operate electronic databases have agreed to pay freelance writers up to $18 million to settle copyright infringement claims brought under a class action lawsuit, according to a settlement announced Tuesday. The settlement covers claims brought against the companies by three groups representing freelance writers: the National Writers Union, the Authors Guild and the American Society of Journalists and Authors.

The American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Authors Guild, and the National Writers Union announced the filing of a motion for court approval of an $18 million settlement in a class action suit they and 21 freelance writers filed on behalf of thousands of freelance writers whose stories appeared in online databases without their consent. They expect preliminary court approval of the settlement within the next month.
http://www.freelancerights.com/
Payment mechanism The Authors Registry, Inc.

This is the homepage for the In Re Literary Works In Electronic Databases Copyright Litigation, a case brought on behalf of freelance authors of literary works that were reproduced on electronic databases without the author's permission.


Database operators settle copyright suit
Freelance writers to get up to $18m from class action
March 30, 2005 The Boston Globe
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/03/30/database_operators_settle_copyright_suit/ The plaintiffs claimed that the database operators, including ProQuest Co., Reed Elsevier Group's LexisNexis database, as well as The New York Times Co., and Dow Jones & Co., used articles from freelance writers in databases without the authors' permission. The case was boosted by a 2001 Supreme Court ruling that said the principles of copyright protection also applied to online distribution of editorial content. A motion for approval of the settlement was filed last week in federal court in New York, said Gerard Colby, president of the National Writers Union. ''We are going for preliminary approval before the judge, which we expect to get," Colby said. ''All the defendants and all the plaintiffs are in agreement on the terms."

6/26/01 National Writers Union and UAW hail Supreme Court ruling as victory for creators and consumers

From: "Jonathan Tasini" <jt@pipeline.com>
Contact: Jonathan Tasini (212)-254-0279
Lindsay Barenz (202)-842-3100
Leaders of the National Writers Union and the International Union, UAW described today's Supreme Court ruling-which upholds copyright protections for free-lance writers-as a victory for creators and consumers. Union leaders also offered to begin negotiations immediately with the publishing industry to resolve billions of dollars in potential liabilities created by repeat violations of U.S. copyright law.
"The Court has upheld the spirit of the Constitutional protection for copyright, which was written for the benefit of individual authors," said Jonathan Tasini, president of the National Writers Union (UAW Local 1981) and the lead plaintiff in Tasini vs. New York Times. "Now, it's time for the media industry to pay creators their fair share and let's sit down and negotiate over this today."
By a 7-2 majority, the Court upheld a September 1999 unanimous ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit, which found that The New York Times and publishers had committed copyright infringement when they resold freelance newspaper and magazine articles, via electronic databases such as LexisNexis, without asking permission or making additional payments to the original authors.
"We're proud to have supported our members in the National Writers Union in their fight to be treated fairly by the publishing industry," said UAW President Stephen P. Yokich. "Today's decision paves the way for writers and other creators to be fairly compensated for their work. That's good news all of us, because we all benefit when the legal protections of copyright encourage the creation of new art, science, and literature."
The International Union, UAW, has provided legal and financial support for the groundbreaking litigation, which was filed by nine free-lance members of UAW Local 1981, the National Writers Union, in 1993 "Our message to the publishing industry now is: let's negotiate," said UAW Vice President Elizabeth Bunn, who directs the union's Technical, Office and Professional Department. "The New York Times and other publishers face billions of dollars of potential liability for selling articles to which they hold no copyright. The way to settle these obligations is to meet at the bargaining table, so we can find solutions that are fair to writers, to the industry, and for consumers."
The NWU, Tasini said, is already party to a class action lawsuit, which will enforce the copyright protections affirmed today by the Supreme Court.
"We want to settle past claims in a reasonable fashion, and establish a mechanism so that free-lancers can be compensated fairly from now on," said Tasini. The Publication Rights Clearinghouse (PRC), said Tasini, established by the NWU in 1993, offers a way for writers and publisher to track the ownership of copyright, and payment for authorized re-sale of copyrighted works. Free-lance writers, whether or not they are NWU members, can use the PRC to license their works by visiting www.nwu.org.
Further details regarding the Tasini vs. New York Times litigation can be found at: www.nwu.org/tvt/vichome.htm
The National Writers Union has 7,000 members nationwide, including journalists, book authors, technical writers and poets. It is the only union dedicated solely to advancing the interests of freelance writers.

The International Union UAW
UAW has more than 1.3 million active and retired members, including more than 100,00 members in its Technical, Office andProfessional Department. In addition to free-lance writers, the UAW also represents attorneys, clerical workers, educators, firefighters, graphic designers, health care workers, librarians, museum workers, public employees, and many others.

11th Circuit Sides With National Geographic in Copyright Case 7-02-2008
Judges vote 7-5 that freelancers cannot collect royalties from magazine's CD-ROM of its archives
National Geographic won its dual victories after more than a decade of litigation in two federal circuits. The publisher of National Geographic has battled freelance writers and photographers over whether it must pay them additional royalties associated with the sale of "The Complete National Geographic" -- a digital version of the magazine's published archive.Judge Rosemary Barkett, writing the majority opinion for a sharply divided en banc court of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the claims of a freelance Florida photographer whose work has been published in National Geographic.

Freelance Writers Win Online Rights Case
By Christopher Stern
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 25, 2001; 12:44 PM
The Supreme Court handed some of the nation's biggest media companies a setback today when it ruled that publishers need freelance writers' permission before posting their articles on the Internet, on CD-Roms or in electronic databases.

Global Internet Copyright Treaty Enters Into Force
From: "U.S. Dept of State List Manager" <Listmgr@PD.STATE.GOV
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 21:45:25 -0500
To: WF-EUROPE@LISTS.STATE.GOV
Subject: Global Internet Copyright Treaty Enters Into Force

Global Internet Copyright Treaty Enters Into Force
(WIPO pact protects rights of authors in cyberspace) (580)
An international treaty negotiated in 1996 to protect authors' copyrights on the Internet came into force March 6.
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright Treaty (WCT) is one of a pair of treaties negotiated by 160 countries to protect against Internet piracy. The second pact, the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT), covers sound recordings and will come into force on May 20.
The treaties become law three months after they are ratified by 30 countries. Gabon became the 30th country to join the WCT in December 2001. Honduras became the 30th country to join the WPPT on February 20, 2002.
Both pacts are designed to bring intellectual property law into the digital age by preventing unauthorized copying or use of work and to ensure the payment of royalties. In a statement, WIPO Director General Kamil Idris emphasized the importance of the new norms provided for in the WCT and the WPPT which, he said, "are vital for the further development of the Internet, electronic commerce and thereby the culture and information industries."
The 30 parties to the WCT are: Argentina, Belarus, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Gabon, Georgia, Hungary, Indonesia, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Saint Lucia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine and the United States.
Following is the text of the WIPO statement: (begin text)
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Geneva, March 6, 2002
WCT Enters Into Force
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright Treaty (WCT), one of two key treaties that will bring copyright law in line with the digital age, entered into force on March 6, 2002. The second of these so-called "Internet treaties", the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty (WPPT), enters into force on May 20, 2002. The treaties lay down the legal groundwork to safeguard the interests of creators in cyberspace and open new horizons for composers, artists, writers and others to use the Internet with confidence to create, distribute and control the use of their works within the digital environment.
The Director General of WIPO, Dr. Kamil Idris, welcomed this important development in the history of copyright law. He emphasized the importance of the new norms provided for in the WCT and the WPPT which, he said, are vital for the further development of the Internet, electronic commerce and thereby the culture and information industries. The treaties were agreed in 1996 and become law three months after they are ratified by 30 states. Gabon became the 30th country to join the WCT last December. Honduras became the 30th state to join the WPPT on February 20, 2002.
To be truly effective, the Director General stressed, the treaties must become widely adopted by countries in all regions of the world. "While we have reached the key number of 30 countries required for entry into force, I urge all other countries to follow suit and to incorporate the provisions of the WCT and WPPT into their national legislation. This will create the conditions necessary for the broad-based and legitimate distribution of creative works and recordings on the Internet," he said.
For more information about the WCT, please consult PR/300/2001 or contact the Media Relations & Public Affairs Section at WIPO:
Tel: +41 22 338 81 61 or 338 95 47; Fax: + 41 22 338 88 10;
E-mail: publicinf [[at]] wipo.int (end text)
(Distributed by the Office of International Information Programs, U.S.Department of State. Web site: http://usinfo.state.gov) NNNN

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