Chronicle of Higher Education, Jennifer Howard: “Fair use and electronic course reserves are back in court. A keenly watched copyright case that pitted three academic publishers against Georgia State University has entered the appeals phase, with a flurry of filings and motions this week and more expected soon. One surprise motion came from the U.S. Department of Justice, which requested more time to consider filing an amicus brief either in support of the publishers or in support of neither party…he case in question is Cambridge U. Press et al. v. Mark P. Becker et al. In 2008, Cambridge, Oxford University Press, and SAGE Publishers sued Georgia State, asserting it had committed widespread copyright violations when it allowed some of their content to be used, unlicensed, in e-reserves. The Association of American Publishers and the Copyright Clearance Center, which specializes in licensing content to universities, bankrolled the legal action.”
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Daily Archives: February 3, 2013
EFF – Aaron's Law 2.0: Major Steps Forward, More Work to Be Done
EFF: “Representative Zoe Lofgren has posted on Reddit a modified draft of Aaron’s Law, a proposal to update the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and wire fraud law in honor of our friend Aaron Swartz and to make sure that the misguided prosecution that happened to him doesn’t happen to anyone else. We’re very pleased… Continue Reading
A Theory of Aggregate Consumption
Kim, Yun, Setterfield , Mark and Mei, Yuan, A Theory of Aggregate Consumption (January 1, 2013). Trinity College of Economics Working Paper 13-01. Available at SSRN “We develop a Keynesian model of aggregate consumption. Our theory emphasizes the importance of the relative income hypothesis and debt-finance for understanding household consumption behavior. It is shown that… Continue Reading
Corporate Governance and Innovation: Theory and Evidence
Sapra, Haresh, Subramanian, Ajay and Subramanian, Krishnamurthy, Corporate Governance and Innovation: Theory and Evidence (February 1, 2013). Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Forthcoming. Available at SSRN “We develop a theory to show how external and internal corporate governance mechanisms affect innovation. We show that there is a U-shaped relation between innovation and external… Continue Reading
Choosing the Road to Prosperity Why We Must End Too Big to Fail – Now
Choosing the Road to Prosperity Why We Must End Too Big to Fail – Now. 2011 Annual Report, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, by Harvey Rosenblum: “The too-big-to-fail institutions that amplified and prolonged the recent financial crisis remain a hindrance to full economic recovery and to the very ideal of American capitalism. It is imperative… Continue Reading
Pew – A Portrait of the 40 Million, Including 11 Million Unauthorized
A Nation of Immigrants A Portrait of the 40 Million, Including 11 Million Unauthorized: “The United States is the worlds leader by far as a destination for immigrants. The country with the next largest number is Russia with 12.3 million. The U.S. total of 40.4 million, which includes legal as well as unauthorized immigrants, represents… Continue Reading
Free Beta ArchiveGrid® now available OCLC
“ArchiveGrid is a discovery service that provides access to detailed archival collection descriptions, making information available about historical documents, personal papers, family histories and other archival materials held in archives throughout the world. It includes over a million descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide and enables… Continue Reading
MIT – The New Initiative on the Digital Economy
“The Initiative for the Digital Economy (IDE) is a major effort addressing the impact of digital technology on businesses, the economy, and society. Drawing upon MIT Sloans strengths in technology and innovation, its internationally recognized faculty, and over a decade of research and partnership with MIT Sloans Center for Digital Business, the new Initiative will… Continue Reading
EPO and USPTO launch Cooperative Patent Classification
On January 2, 2013 “the European Patent Office (EPO) and the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) launched the Cooperative Patent Classification scheme (CPC), a global classification system for patent documents. The system is the result of partnership between the EPO and the USPTO in their joint effort to develop a common, internationally compatible… Continue Reading
Patenting Prosperity: Invention and Economic Performance in the United States and its Metropolitan Areas
“Patenting Prosperity: Invention and Economic Performance in the United States and its Metropolitan Areas by Jonathan Rothwell, José Lobo, Deborah Strumsky and Mark Muro is the first analysis of its kind to present patenting trends on a regional level from 1980 to 2012. The report ranks all of the nations roughly 360 metropolitan areas on… Continue Reading
