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Copyright News from Google
Google has amended its search results to account for the number of valid copyright removal notices a site has received. In other words, sites that post copyrighted works and are reported to Google...
Royalty News: The Warhol Foundation
Andy Warhol did not secure licensing rights when he created his iconic Campbell's soup can in 1962 (and his estate certainly didn't gain anything from the recent ten million dollar resale of "Four...
More Publishers Abandon Digital Rights Management (DRM) Software
Have ebooks reached a DRM-free tipping point? Harvard Business Review Press recently went DRM-free, joining Tor/Forge, Macmillan, and a list of early DRM-rejecters that included O'Reilly Media and...
Doctor Who, Interrupted
Science fiction's largest award event, the Hugos, was streamed live this year. However, those watching on Ustream received a rude interruption: a message reading, "Worldcon banned due to copyright...
Rights Standards: The Road to Profits
Publishers today face a seldom-discussed digital dilemma that directly impacts their profitability: the lack of standards for communicating rights information about content. What rights are...
BISG Rights and Royalties Reporting Pilot Program
MetaComet Systems' President, David Marlin, serves as Co-Chair of the BISG Rights Committee. The committee's current focus is on creating standardized means of communication of rights data. To that...
Industry Roundup: Rights and Royalty Management Related News
Below is a roundup of recent news items related to the world of royalties and rights management. Aptara Releases Third Annual ebook Survey of Publishers Apatara, a digital content development...