The British Library and Google today announced a partnership to digitise 250, 000 out-of-copyright books from the Library's collections.
ENGADGET: British Library and Google Books partner up to digitize 250,000 out-of-copyright works
Both sets of plaintiffs claim that the library component of the project violates copyright law.
In 2005, Microsoft announced that it would spend two and a half million dollars to scan a hundred thousand out-of-copyright books in the collection of the British Library.
Ivi tried to argue it was a cable-TV network for the purposes of these retransmission rights, because an exception to the Copyright Act gives cable operators the right to retransmit if they pay fees set by the Copyright Royalty Board, an arm of the Library of Congress.
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As promised, let's talk about the Library of Congress and walk through some copyright law...
The Library of Congress's rules establish federal copyright penalties for unlocking a cellphone.
Once you buy a book, music CD, or movie DVD in the United States, you are free to later sell it, lend it to a friend, or donate it to a library or charity without seeking permission from the copyright owner.
But last fall, the Library of Congress, which has oversight of certain copyright matters, banned the practice if a carrier doesn't give permission, saying cellphones should no longer be exempted from a section of copyright law.
The Library of Congress has the ability to grant exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which it has done in the past for smartphone users who wished to unlock their phones.
But last fall, the Library of Congress decided that cellphones should no longer be exempted from a section of copyright law.
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