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The UK's new orphan works legislation allows works to be classed as orphans only after a "diligent search" has been conduct...

With all the heat that publishers are starting to feel from the academic community, you might have thought that they'd avoid upsetti...

You wouldn't expect much else from a meeting organised by WIPO, but this is pretty rich even for them: Copyright is necessary to allow ...

This is droll: the European Commission is finally waking up to the copyright orphans problem - thanks to some healthy panic induced by Googl...

You may have noticed that in the 10 years since Napster, the music industry has succeeded in almost completely ruining its biggest opportuni...

Blooks are generally blogs turned into books, but I suppose we can stretch the term to include books that are available from blogs. Here...

Aside from the strong moral arguments for open access - based on the fact that much of the research published in journals has been paid for ...

An interesting story in eWeek.com. Larry Brilliant, newly-appointed head of the Google.org philanthropic foundation, wants to set up a d...