FREELANCE RIGHTS (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
... . (Thanks again to blogger-twitterer Eric Rumsey for the pointer.) This area brings my work as an activist on this issue full circle. In 1994, I led a group of National Writers Union members in confronting a fledgling fax-on-demand article delivery service called UnCover, an affiliate of a for-profit spinoff of the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries. UnCover became the first...
FREELANCE RIGHTS (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
... here. Just creepiness, down to my very bones. The other experience was being reminded by Eric Rumsey (who is becoming one of my favorite bloggers and twitterers) of one of the most hilarious life-imitates-art parodies ever published by The Onion . See "Google Announces Plan to Destroy All Information It Can't Index," August 31, 2005: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/40076...
FREELANCE RIGHTS (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
We're waiting for the Supreme Court ruling in "Freelance" ( Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick ) and for the revised Google Books settlement in federal district court. In the meantime, blogger Eric Rumsey has posted a must-read piece, "Google Books Integrated into Google Search Results," http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardinmd/2009/10/30/google-books-integrated-into-google-search-results/...
