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22 Nov 2010, 7:54 am by Peter Hirtle
(by Peter Hirtle) A number of people have been commenting on the copyright status of Mark Twain’s Autobiography, which was recently published by the University of California Press and has become a best-seller. [read post]
17 Oct 2010, 2:19 pm by Peter Hirtle
(by Peter Hirtle) A little over two years ago, I wrote a post entitled " Free the Founding Fathers! [read post]
20 Sep 2010, 7:36 am by Peter Hirtle
(by Peter Hirtle) One of the things that Napster taught us is that just because it is easy to do something, it is not always legal. [read post]
25 Jul 2010, 7:00 pm by Donn Zaretsky
Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento discusses a Peter Hirtle post discussing what could be an enormously important copyright decision that not enough people are discussing. [read post]
12 Jul 2010, 2:24 am by Peter Hirtle
(by Peter Hirtle) One wouldn’t normally expect a lawsuit between a watch manufacturer (Omega) and a big-box retailer (COSTCO) about the scope of “gray-market” sales of manufactured goods to have much of an impact on libraries and archives, but the upcoming Supreme Court case of Costco v. [read post]
10 Jul 2010, 3:24 am by Peter Hirtle
(by Peter Hirtle) In Section 12.9 of Copyright & Cultural Institutions, I discuss briefly whether FERPA, the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, governs the digitization of student papers and theses. [read post]
7 Jul 2010, 12:46 pm by Peter Hirtle
(by Peter Hirtle) A recent post at the Citizen Media Law Project about one’s First Sale rights with e-books got me thinking about libraries. [read post]
6 Jul 2010, 8:30 pm by Donn Zaretsky
Peter Hirtle on photograper Anne Pearse-Hocker's lawsuit against the Smithsonian:"I can well imagine that a user would see 'worldwide permission' and assume everything is covered. [read post]
4 Jul 2010, 6:32 am by Peter Hirtle
(by Peter Hirtle)On p. 195 of Copyright & Cultural Institutions (C&CI), I noted that “Court cases involving copyright infringement by cultural heritage institutions are rare. [read post]
19 May 2010, 7:07 am by Jennifer Stephens
Peter Hirtle at LibraryLaw Blog discusses the recent posting at RedState.com of Elana Kagen's thesis at Princeton University. [read post]
16 May 2010, 8:09 am by Peter Hirtle
[by Peter Hirtle] I was catching up on some blog readings this morning, and was pleasantly surprised to find that Jill Hurst-Wahl in a post on copyright had a link to what she called Mary Minow's "good news" from 3 weeks ago. [read post]
6 Feb 2010, 8:30 pm by Donn Zaretsky
(see Peter Hirtle’s public domain chart.) [read post]
19 Jan 2010, 2:10 pm by Mary
See interview with Peter Hirtle for more details.http://fairuse.stanford.edu/commentary_and_analysis/2010_01_hirtle.html# [read post]
1 Dec 2009, 7:43 pm by Donn Zaretsky
An interview with Peter Hirtle on Cornell University Library's new permissions guidelines for public domain images [via]. [read post]
27 Nov 2009, 11:45 am by Kevin Smith
  Peter Hirtle, of Cornell University and the LibraryLaw blog, performed a tremendous service by posting this report and some other documents from the case on the Scribd web site. [read post]
17 Nov 2009, 12:18 am by Peter Hirtle
(posted by Peter Hirtle) One of the more interesting recent conflicts in the Georgia ereserves case concerns an expert report on ereserves prepared by Kenneth Crews of Columbia for the defendants. [read post]
15 Nov 2009, 1:46 pm by Peter Hirtle
(posted by Peter Hirtle)Print copies of Copyright and Cultural Institutions, whose publication I announced here, are now available from Amazon.com at a discounted price of $31.54. [read post]
8 Nov 2009, 4:18 am by Peter Hirtle
(posted by Peter Hirtle) Many of the critics of the proposed Google Book Settlement (GBS) have pointed out that it attempts to use the class action mechanism to effect what should be a legislative prerogative. [read post]