Big publishers put their books online, NU.nl Internet reports (in Dutch)
AMSTERDAM - HarperCollins and Random House, two of the biggest publishers of books in English, let users search their books online and allow bloggers to add these books to their websites.

Links, articles etc.
Links to articles, papers etc. relevant to collective management and copyright protection
Recommended copyright notice models for print and electronic publishing
Different licence models
www.gnu.org
creativecommons.org
European Union
The Brussels Resolution 2007
EU Directive on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society
Article on copyright (on this page, you will also find additional […]

The Sindacato Nazionale Scrittori and Biblit supported the campaign in a very special way. They were present at the National Bookfair which took place in Rome in December. The poster was drawn by the seven-year-old Nives. It mentioned the address of the campaign and made aware that books don’t grow on trees. They offered to […]

According to Beta News, BitTorrent pirates want their own Country. In what could be seen as both marketing stunt and ploy for donations, popular Swedish BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay has announced intentions to raise money to purchase Sealand, a claimed “sovereign Principality” founded in international waters, six miles off the eastern shores of Britain. […]

CNET News.com reports. Digital Life America found in a survey of 2’600 Americans that 78 percent considered taking a DVD from a store without paying as a “very serious offense.” The study contrasts that figure with the 40 percent who said they believe it is a “very serious offense” to download copyright movies off the […]

CNET News.com reports that the chief executives of Philips, Nokia, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Sony-Ericsson, Matsushita Electronic Industrial, Sony and Imation sent a letter to Barroso on Monday evening. They asked him for a meeting to explain, why the EU has delayed the reforms of EU copyright tax legislation.
Initially it had been planned to scrap extra levies […]

Jip en Janneke are characters from famous Dutch childrens books by Annie M.G. Schmidt (1911-1995). Since these books are so popular in the Netherlands, many organisations that deal with children such as playgroups or créches name themselves after Annie’s characters, e.g. “Kinderopvang Jip en Janneke”.
Wombat BV, the company which represents Annie’s heirs, is for over […]

In an interview, published on news.com, Brewster Kahle, director of The Internet Archive, told CNET’s Second Life auditorum: “Everyone seems to like the idea of preservation of cultural materials. But folks are nervous about disruptions in commercial practices that are just now getting formed. Libraries and publishing, however, have always existed in parallel. What happened […]