CILIP members will already be aware from the CILIP LIS in Politics blog that - in response to a supplementary question from Tony Baldry on the protection of copyright in relation to e-books, and on piracy - Culture, Media and Sport Secretary Andy Burnham said that with respect to e-books: there was a genuine issue with the illegal sharing of ...

Richard Stallman describes himself as someone who devotes his efforts to progressive activism (such as the free software movement). The largest part of his website has to do with US politics. David Rothman at TeleRead has a transcript of Rothman's July 5th presentation on copyright (taken from Slashdot and verified from watching the ...

Boing Boing reports that the Google contract with libraries does not in any way grant them exclusive rights to scan that library's books. Google Book Search was at pains to reassure the industry and even made available a copy of one of their contracts. However, Boing Boing is now concerned that Google puts restrictive notices on their public ...

On the face of it, you can do little more (or even no more) to contravene copyright with an e-book than you can with a book: make copies/photocopy; cut-and-paste/copy; and so on. In fact, arguably you can do less with an e-book. If I buy a book - one of those old-fashioned paper things - I am free to lend it, sell it or give it to someone else; I ...

Yesterday Tim O'Reilly blogged at unusual length about the attack by Microsoft on Google at the Association of American Publishers (AAP). What he had to say is unsurprising to those who have been following the protracted debate on copyright and the right of Google to scan books from libraries. AAP is suing Google for scanning books from libraries. ...