Day October 12, 2012

Costa Rica: Students Protest Veto of ‘Photocopying Law’

[Written by Jenny Cascante Gonzalez · Translated by Jane Ellis  – posted on Global Voices CC-BY-3.0] Thousands of students participated in a march in San José on Tuesday, October 9, 2012, protesting for their right to photocopy textbooks for educational…

Ruling for HathiTrust in Important Fair Use Case

Judge Harold Baer has issued a decision in Authors Guild v. HathiTrust that equals a big win for universities and for fair use. The HathiTrust is a digital collection of millions of scanned books from sixty partner institutions.  It allows…