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Loeb & Loeb LLP

How Culture, Law and Technology are Redefining Book Publishing

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There are a lot of exciting emerging trends in the book publishing industry that are responsible for its consistent growth....more

Irwin IP LLP

Publishers Take a Hatchet to Free Digital Libraries

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On March 24, 2023, the Southern District of New York held that the Internet Archive (“IA”)’s digitization and lending online of the Hatchette Book Group (“Publishers”)’s copyrighted physical books infringed Publishers’...more

Weintraub Tobin

Is Trump’s Copyright Claim Against Woodward “Trumped Up”?

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Veteran investigative reporter Bob Woodward conducted an audio interview of former President Donald Trump for Woodward’s book, Rage. Woodward later released these recordings as a separate audiobook. Trump claims that Woodward...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

A Cautionary Tale of One Independent Press’s Claim of Federal Copyright Protection

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Earlier this summer, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson refused to buy plaintiff, Valancourt Books, LLC’s, claims that the Copyright Office of the United States unconstitutionally demanded books for free, when Judge...more

Hogan Lovells

Lindgren heirs win in dispute over Pippi Longstocking lyrics

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In a recent ruling by the Regional Court Hamburg (Case No. 308 O 431/17), the court awarded the heirs of children's book author Astrid Lindgren a right to information ...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

USA Implements Treaty to Increase Access for the Impaired to Copyrighted Works

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The United States has formally implemented an international treaty that expands access to books and other printed materials for individuals who are blind and visually impaired....more

McDermott Will & Emery

No Fair Use for Digital Excerpts

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Cambridge University Press et al v. Patton et al. - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit vacated the district court’s decision holding that digital excerpts of books from three academic publishers provided to...more

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