Determining Copyright Status is not unlike the search for the Holy Grail. Here is an updated list of resources:
1) WorldCat’s Copyright Evidence Registry
2) See also, from LLRX: “Can Collaboration Solve Copyright Status Questions? The WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry,” by Roger V. Skalbeck, May 12, 2009
No, this is not a Twick or Tweet April 1st post…:
It was only a matter of time before someone would ask if a Tweet could be copyrighted. I’ll let the lawyers discuss this, but for now this is only a matter of First Impression. I’m sure more discussion will ensue.
Thanks to Ernie the Attorney for the first link, which took me to the Tweet copyright post.
The flux is at it again. You know, when some relatively rare topic arises in conversation and then it comes up again and again. (I blogged about the flux a long while ago, here, but I was in a chatty mood so it’s a longer post than you might be up for.)
Anyway, the topic of copywriting legal documents came up a couple of weeks ago, and then it came up again and then again. Today I ran across this article, while looking at a webpage on searching public records, that I linked to from the Law Librarian Blog:
1) Due Diligence in Drafting: Copyrights in Legal Documents, by Thomas J. Stueber. (This article can be found in other online and print publications.)
2) There is also this one: “The Highest Form of Flattery? Application of the Fair Use Defense against Copyright Claims for Unauthorized Appropriation of Litigation Documents,” by Davida H. Isaacs, Northern Kentucky University – Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Missouri Law Review, Vol. 71, p. 391, 2006.
Jack Bogs Blog points us to a NYT story, the latest on public access to law and the Oregon dispute:
He fought the law and … he won.
I posted about this Oregon Revised Statute dispute here and here.
From Lessig blog, comes this: Free (open source) Copyright Licenses
“… So for non-lawgeeks, this won’t seem important. But trust me, this is huge.
I am very proud to report today that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (THE “IP” court in the US) has upheld a free (ok, they call them “open source”) copyright license, explicitly pointing to the work of Creative Commons and others…. (link to full post)
From Reference at Cedar Mill (thank you Liz!), we hear about this, “is it protected by copyright” tool, DigitalSlider.
Another great place to learn interesting copyright news, without being overwhelmed, is the LibraryLaw blog (thank you Mary!). From the Grateful Dead to Digital Promise Legislation .
See also, Copyright, Technology, and Access to the Law: An Opinionated Primer, by James Grimmelmann, New York Law School
See also: State of Oregon backs off claim that its law is copyrighted
(I last blogged about this here.)
Revised post: Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) and Legislative Counsel Copyright Dispute
Everybody loves a summary, so start here, at BoleyBlogs. Then …
I’m relatively new to Oregon so was wondering what happens next, i.e. after the motion was passed on 6/19/08 by the Legislative Counsel Committee that disclaims any copyright claim or action to enforce it. My questions were:
There will be news on the blogs (especially here and here) about this hearing later, but, unless I misunderstood completely (possible given the sound quality):
… the Oregon Legislative Counsel Committee passed a motion to disclaim all copyright claims and not to enforce existing copyright claims against Justia, Public resource dot com, etc.
This is NOT the exact text of the motion and this is just Committee action. I don’t know exactly what happens next to make this official, but we’ll find out in due course.
Don’t forget that the hearing before Oregon Legislative Counsel Committee is today and you can listen live. For details on how to listen, go here.
You can listen to it after the fact too, but will need to install Real Player, if you don’t have it already. (See here for instructions.)
Oregon Legal Research Blog