Copyright Office Issues DMCA Exceptions

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The U.S. Copyright Office granted narrow, three-year exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that permit circumvention of access-control technologies on electronic media if specific conditions are met. Under one exemption, professors of film and media studies can circumvent the access-control technology of DVDs in their libraries to use film clips in class. Another […]

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Novell Withdraws From Hula Open Source Project

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Novell stopped participating in the Hula open source e-mail and calendaring software project it began in February 2005. According to Novell representative Peter Teichman, business customers already had e-mail and calendaring services in place. The company is thus shifting its resources to other projects, asking members of the Hula community to take over its previous […]

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Quick Growth Predicted For Global Mobile Entertainment

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Juniper Research estimates that the global mobile entertainment market is currently worth $17 billion and will grow to $47 billion by 2009 and $77 billion by 2011. The company predicts European and Asia Pacific countries will come to dominate the global market for mobile entertainment. Today, mobile music is the largest sector, followed by “infotainment,” […]

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Publishers Criticize Professors For Copyright Violations

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The Association of American Publishers (AAP) is calling on colleges and universities to take steps to address what they see as rampant copyright abuse by faculty. According to the AAP, faculty who post protected content online for use in their courses cost the publishing industry at least $20 million each year in lost revenues. Before […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter (2006-11-29)

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pgweekly_2006_11_29.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, November 29, 2006 ****eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971**** Introduction ———— Dear Subscribers, Some weeks back I emailed Michael Hart with a proposal for a new and different approach to the weekly PG newsletter. I am happy to say that Michael and […]

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Dodging The Censors

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Researchers at the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto have developed software that they hope will allow Internet users in nations that practice censorship to have full access to the Web. Available as of December 1, the software, called psiphon, operates using social networking principles. Users in countries without censorship will download the application, […]

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PG Other Newsletter: Newsletter Troubles Today (2006-11-22)

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From hart at pglaf.org Wed Nov 22 08:44:40 2006 From: hart at pglaf.org (Michael Hart) Date: Wed Nov 22 08:44:43 2006 Subject: [gweekly] PG Newsletter Troubles Today!! New Editors Welcome Now!! Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0611220823400.18336@pglaf.org> My email connection is SO bad right now that I can’t edit much of anything online, so I may not get ALL […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter: Part 1 (2006-11-22)

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From hart at pglaf.org Wed Nov 22 09:11:07 2006 From: hart at pglaf.org (Michael Hart) Date: Wed Nov 22 09:11:10 2006 Subject: [gweekly] Short version Newsletter Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0611220906410.18336@pglaf.org> 77 added to general U.S. Copyright total 33 added to PG of Australia Total 4 added to PG of Europe Total ??? [grand total = 382] 0 […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter: Part 2 (2006-11-22)

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From news at pglaf.org Wed Nov 22 16:45:39 2006 From: news at pglaf.org (Project Gutenberg Newsletter) Date: Wed Nov 22 16:45:42 2006 Subject: [gweekly] Pt2 Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0611221644460.26745@pglaf.org> GWeekly_November_22_part2.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter 22 Nov 2006 eBooks Readable By Both Humans and Computers Since 1971 – – – – – – […]

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PG Weekly Newsletter: Pg News (2006-11-22)

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pgweekly_2006_11_22.txt The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter For Wednesday, November 22, 2006 ****eBooks Readable By Both Humans And Computers Since July 4, 1971**** Project Gutenberg News Website —————————— For more statistical information and PG related news please visit the Project Gutenberg Newsletter website: http://www.pg-news.org WANTED ADS ———- Project Gutenberg is looking for Volunteers. To learn how […]

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Sloan Report Finds Growth in Online Students

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The latest survey of online learning by the Sloan Consortium reported that about 3.2 million students took at least one online course from a degree-granting institution in fall 2005, double the number who did in 2002. The report, issued jointly by the Sloan Consortium and the College Board, defines an online course as one in […]

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