The Bad Guys (The Amazon Noir Crew: Cirio, Lizvlx, Ludovico, Bernhard) stole copyrighted books from Amazon by using sophisticated robot-perversion technology coded by supervillain Paolo Cirio. A subliminal media fight and a covert legal dispute escalated into an online showdown with the heist of over 3000 books at the center of the story.
Lizvlx from UBERMORGEN.COM […]

Twenty-five UK academics have been found guilty of research misconduct in the past three years, including faking results, plagiarism and the misuse of funds, a Times Higher investigation has revealed. A Times Higher investigation shows a sharp increase in the number of cases in universities, suggesting that a US-style culture of whistleblowing and zero tolerance […]

This blog focuses on the topics of copyright (C) and creative commons (CC). It is curated by different authors from all over Europe. Its main theme is the question how important it is for writers today to be in control of their texts. Special attention is given to the fact that publishing texts on […]

Tony Tyesome for The Times Higher Education Supplement reports that amazon.com has established agreements with academic journal publishers worldwide to be able to re-sell their content. Academic papers can be found on amazon.com for as little as $5.95.
These agreements seem to be perfectly legal. However, the original authors were not aware of that practice […]

Hollywood’s rush to offer programs on the Web, iPods and cell phones may be slowed by growing resistance from writers and actors who want a bigger slice of revenues from digital media.
Compensation for digitally delivered media threatens to be among the more hotly debated topics in contract talks with unions representing writers, actors and directors […]

Read “Plagiarism ‘is fault of indulgent lecturers’” by Alexandra Frean, published October 18, 2006 by Times Newspapers, Frean says: “PLAGIARISM and cheating by today’s cut-and-paste generation of university students will never be stamped out unless lecturers stop spoon-feeding them a diet of handouts and PowerPoint presentations.”
www.timesonline.co.uk, 18 Oct. 2006
However, in the Times Higher Education […]

“Copyright and the Internet”, a guide by IPR Helpdesk. The general rules concerning copyright protection apply to the Internet in the same way as to other situations. This means that each work on the Internet, insofar as it is original and expressed in a particular form, is eligible for copyright protection.
Copyright and the Internet

It is all about authors` rights. Respect the authors’ position. Get to know their economical situation – also and particularly in the digital era. Become their partners.
It is all about authors’ rights:
Moral rights
- The author’s exclusive right to be identified as an author (right of paternity)
- The author’s exclusive right to object to modifications and other derogatory […]

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