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Barnes & Noble, others to buy Borders Group's intellectual property - 0 views

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    Barnes & Noble and other bidders purchased parts of Borders Group's intellectual property in an auction that raised $15.7 million. Hilco Streambank, the intellectual property valuation and disposition arm of Hilco Trading, LLC, said the auction included more than 50 rounds before the winning bidders emerged.
Stephanie Wynn

Chef Sues Over Intellectual Property (the Menu) - New York Times - 0 views

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    For those in last night's Copyright Law class, here's a NYT article akin to what we spoke about last night regarding copyrighting/patenting food. This is a couple of years old, but . . .
arnie Grossblatt

Malcolm Gladwell vs Chris Anderson: a very intellectual bust up - 0 views

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    About the Gladwell's review of Free (the new book from Anderson) and the rebuttal from Anderson
arnie Grossblatt

Library Inc. - - 2 views

  • Yet libraries, the intellectual heart of universities, have become perhaps the most commercialized academic area within universities, with troubling implications for the future of higher education.
  • Through innocuous incremental stages, academic libraries have reached a point where they are now guided largely by the mores of commerce, not academe.
  • Over the last decade, however, as the number and cost of journals have soared, most libraries have decided to forgo purchasing hard copies. The shift from owning a journal to merely providing access to its digital incarnation has, of course, saved some money. But those savings come in tandem with detrimental changes both to the content of library collections and the ways those collections are used.
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  • According to both the professional literature and information-vending companies' usability studies, a library's chief task is to meet the information needs of its patrons
  • For university libraries, retrieving what is known should be only the beginning. They are laboratories of the mind, unique places where questions that have never before been asked can be formulated and answered; they are centers of teaching where patrons can learn about the organization and the production of knowledge
  • or universities, the libraries' experience is a cautionary tale. Commercial practices, technologies, and innovations often seem to benefit and support the academic mission of universities. But commercial innovations are not value-free, and it has proven very difficult for libraries to embrace some components while rejecting others.
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    Interesting, if a bit unbalanced, about the corruption of university libraries by commercial publishers and the pressure of "good enough" information in a Googlized world
Rebecca Benner

Beyond the Book - 0 views

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    Free podcast from the Copyright Clearance Center focusing on issues in our industry. I discovered this while on the SSP site. It's worthwhile to take some time and explore.
Paul Riccardi

Canadian Labour Congress ready to sell out consumers, educators, public interest on cop... - 0 views

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    The Canadian government is about to change its stance on copyright to a much tougher view.
arnie Grossblatt

DMCA Strikes Again And Suing your customer enthusiasts - 0 views

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    TI sues its customers for hacking their calculators. When is it ever a good business decision to sue the most enthusiastic users of your products? We'll see this play out again on one of the ebook readers.
arnie Grossblatt

The best report ever on media piracy | Felix Salmon | Analysis & Opinion | Reuters.com - 1 views

  • he big forces driving media piracy in developing countries are real and powerful and will not be changed, no matter how many western politicians get on their moral high horses and insist that countries like India and China build a “culture of intellectual property.” But the irony is that if governments and corporations really wanted to build such a culture, then they would encourage companies to set their prices low enough that the populations of those countries could actually afford to buy music, movies, and software at the full legal retail price. It turns out that domestic companies are quite good at distributing media at low prices, and can build profitable businesses by doing that. But foreign companies have different incentives in the short term, and don’t do that.
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    Data-grounded research on the costs of media piracy developing economies.
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