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20 Sep 1:17 pm
... no! In fact, the complaint specifically cites the operation of the CMS as an act of infringement: Without permission of the authors, Scribd maintains copies of author's [sic]
works for use in a copyright protection system. Once a copyrighted work ... them from the system, and prevent future uploads, is itself infringing. One question I have is whether what
Scribd maintains in its database are actual "copies" of the infringing materials, or merely (as in the case of the audio and video ID systems I' ...
1 Jul, 2008 1:02 am
... limited number of authorized persons Automatically convert published content into PDF, Word, and plain text Scribd is attempting to build a community around document sharing
and searching. Whether that will be successful remains to be seen. And ... utilize flash technology, you will not see the embedded object. For those viewers, here is the direct link to
the Order on Scribd's service. UPDATE: After checking the appearance of the Order on the blog, I noticed that ads were inserted into the document ...
29 Sep 11:47 am
... . Further, in that case, Turnitin monetizes its database directly by licensing access to it, while the complaint apparently alleges that Scribd uses the database only for its
own filtering purposes and does not license it to others. As a ... harm is if the filter actually blocks potentially valuable exposure that might have come from having the works
published through Scribd, but I don't think that's what the copyright owners are complaining about!). The filter helps copyright owners prevent future ...
7 Nov 2:13 am
... to all members of the purported class of copyright owners whose rights are alleged to have been violated by Scribd. Scribd also argues that certification of a class of
plaintiffs seeking statutory damages would violate its due process rights, resulting in a "horrendous, possibly annihilating punishment" that could "bankrupt" Scribd for the
"inconsequential infringement of one out-of-print book." Interestingly, plaintiff Elaine Scott's counsel Kiwi Camara has ...
24 Sep 9:14 am
... , but not by hosting infringing works on its service. No, her claim is even weirder: she maintains that Scribd prevents copyrighted material from being placed on the site by
copying the text of copyrighted books and other publications into its ... are available online are behind paywalls even though they cannot be copyrighted (including a lot of court
decisions). Scribd is a solution to this problem, providing a central clearinghouse where lawyers can upload legal documents to make them available to ...
22 Sep 2:44 pm
... Act, so it can block repeat uploads of the document. That description is at odds with the claims in the lawsuit, which alleges "Scribd illegally copies the work into its
copyright protection system, without permission or compensation to the author." The ... the discovery process, "We hope to learn details of their system." Details aside, Camara
speculated that Scribd is likely to license its filtering technology that includes an undisclosed number of digital fingerprinted works. That such filters ...
3 Apr, 2007 8:39 pm
... TechnoLawyer fame has an excellent appreciation of the potential of an interesting web service called Scribd today on the TechnoLawyer Blog. As he notes, I've also found it
intriguing enough ... make presentation slides easily available to an audience looking for slides and presentations, Scribd offers a way to make documents readily available for
people looking for certain types ... you some other great ideas. Check out his post and Scribd. While you are reading Neil's post, take some time to check ...
24 Sep 8:39 am
... Ms. Scott claims 2 violations of copyright - one for the upload (even though Scribd gets a "safe harbor" under the DMCA since they took it down), and ... whether something is
copyrighted. Indeed Wired's Threat Level blog reports that Scribd "creates a digital fingerprint, or a 'hash,' to identify infringing copies." If that's true ... then the suit
IMHO doesn't have much to stand on. Anyway this is the first Scribd lawsuit that I've heard of. I guess it was inevitable, given that many full-length books ...
4 Apr, 2007 9:07 am
... , and more. What's in it for legal practitioners? According to Technolawyer: -- You can use Scribd as a free document conversion tool, albeit with a limited number of file
formats right now. ... while commuting, which means you can drive and bill. Ka-ching! -- You can use Scribd as a quick and dirty extranet for clients. -- Someday, I suspect ...
you personally and your firm. I can also see applications for librarians. Scribd seems like the ideal place to share the many presentations and guides that we ...
23 Apr, 2007 9:52 am
... later, Google released an update (or downgrade, if you will) of its Gmail service, and the loophole was fixed. However, when trying out Scribd today-a site with the noble
goal to "create the world's largest open library of documents" and even touted by some as the "YouTube of documents"-it seems that a similar feature/bug is also present in
Scribd's online document converter. As a little test, I uploaded this secure PDF document to Scribd, and as you can see, ...
26 Jul, 2007 8:43 pm
... upload a DRMed PDF file now, you bump into the following warning: Scribd's conversion system determined that you uploaded a PDF that is encrypted and protected ... other
questions, please send us an email at support@scribd.com Thanks! It's worth noting here that Scribd's uploader does not only refuse to convert ... other formats, it also
interferes with (and ultimately blocks) the upload itself, something that Scribd is legally not required to do, as far as I know. This behavior is different from Gmail's ...
3 Apr, 2008 6:19 am
... you put your document or image files online, where they are available to the public. Now Scribd is offering to scan your print documents and put those online - for free. ...
weeks, and then enjoy your words in pixels. Even accounting for the fact that Scribd is in complete charge of the project and so can move as slowly and as selectively ...
wondering: would this be a good way to put public domain case reports online? Scribd offers not only scanning but the conversion via OCR to searchable documents, ...
31 Mar 3:25 pm
... WORLD." We were gratified (but of course "legally shocked") at the Times of London article which incurred Scribd's wrath to learn that immensely popular and writingly gifted
novelist Ken Follett's World without End (a New York Times No. 1 bestseller) had been uploaded to Scribd and had been viewed 500 times in five months. We recently uploaded some
of our own published works to Scribd. After only one month we have more than 500 views of two of our documents: The Norse Pharaohs: Astronomical ...
4 Apr, 2007 8:55 am
... , and more. What's in it for legal practitioners? According to Technolawyer: -- You can use Scribd as a free document conversion tool, albeit with a limited number of file
formats right now ... while commuting, which means you can drive and bill. Ka-ching! -- You can use Scribd as a quick and dirty extranet for clients. -- Someday, I suspect
Scribd ... you can keep your documents private, thus using Scribd solely as a technology tool. But I think Scribd might even have greater utility as a marketing
tool ...
18 Dec, 2008 4:14 pm
... to work through my "what I want to learn today" list (my LinkedIn site is languishing - sigh), but 12/18/08 was a SCRIBD day (or more accuately, a SCRIBD 30 minutes)
(I really just like saying SCRIBD, SCRIBD, SCRIBD :-) In honor of SCRIBD Day, I posted 2 documents that took me a long time to get into my hot, little,
grasping, law librarian hands (with the help of several others, including the Clackamas County Law Librarian and the San Bernardino ...
14 Feb 12:36 am
... is self-explanatory and is part of a series of postings that will appear periodically on LawPundit relating to critical questions of evidence in fields of academic research other
than law. Historical questions are too important to be left solely in the decision-making ambit of scholars who have no training in evidence and whose treatment of available facts can
be quite serendipity. PhaistosDiskLondonSpeechRevised12January2009 Publish at Scribd or explore others: Academic Work language writing
27 Jul 3:38 am
... University Press' display room is closed, I see that HUP has signed a deal with Scribd to distribute HUP books in electronic format. One thing that's interesting is the split
... NYU and MIT's University Presses have also already signed on with Scribd. The company started discussing a deal with HUP about a month ago, according to Adler, after ... has
almost 50 million users, according to Adler. Books purchased through Scribd can be read on electronic devices, including the iPhone and Amazon Kindle. Our ...
4 Mar, 2008 3:04 am
Ran accross a really cool online tool this week, iPaper from Scribd: Scribd is a free, web-based, document sharing community and self-publishing platform that enables
anyone to easily publish, distribute, share, and discover ... , photo albums, school work, and sheet music are just a few of the different kinds of documents you can publish and share
on Scribd. Scribd provides: A simple yet powerful method of publishing and distributing your own electronic books and documents in a variety of formats - ...
24 Sep 9:45 am
... on a global scale and in the process have also built one of the largest readerships in the world," the attorneys representing the class wrote in the complaint." Scribd
reportedly has built a following of tens of millions of readers every month, and has published 10 million documents, according to the site. Read the full story on the Scribd
lawsuit here.(c) Legal Expert Connections, Inc., 866-417-7025 www.legalexpertconnections.com
31 Mar 8:54 am
TechCrunch: "Harry Potter Author JK Rowling Attacks Scribd For Pirated Content" Scribd says that the is no battle going on between Rowling and the site, and that the Times
piece is "inaccurate and misleading", going on to say that Scribd is not being threatened with legal action.
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