May 13, 2013

Copyright trolls, no longer simply lurking under bridges, have taken to the internet, using threats of legal action to make quick money. The trolling technique has proved so popular in… Read more »

Mein Kampf to be published in Germany for the first time since 1945 — Simon Reichley
Who wrote Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl? — Taylor Sperry
Author accuses 60 Minutes of stealing idea from his book — Julia Fleischaker
This week in legislative ineptitude: State of Georgia wildly misconstrues purpose and meaning of the word "copyright", sues man for helping people understand the law of the land — Simon Reichley

What will the “Big Library Read” reveal about the potential for ebook marketing in libraries?

Claire Kelley

At the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting in January 2013, Eric Hellman, the founder of GlueJar, a start-up devoted to relicensing ebooks under the Creative Commons license, presented an idea… Read more »

Canadian writers’ union to make decision on self-published authors

Nick Davies

Matt TenBruggencate reported for the CBC last week that the largest association of writers in Canada is set to make a decision as to whether to reverse its long-standing policy… Read more »

A year of Librotraficantes: where to read Arizona’s banned books

Sal Robinson

It’s been a little over a year for Librotraficantes, a movement that came out of the passing, in May 2010, of HB 2281, an Arizona bill that prohibited school districts… Read more »

Slideshow: Interpreting the stoop books of Brooklyn

Dustin Kurtz

My new favorite blog (as of half an hour ago, after The New Inquiry Sunday Reading pointed me there—and yes I’m using the word ‘favorite’ pretty loosely) is Stoop Books… Read more »

Melville House Books

Newspaper copyright troll Righthaven finally conquered

Ariel Bogle