Healthy Metadata and the EU Copyright Directive
Publishers must maintain clean, reliable metadata for their content, including about authors, institution, license types, and citations.
Investors Eye RightsTech
“Where you have recurring revenue streams, you have a measure of predictability of the returns on rights. Essentially rights become something like a financial asset class in its own right.”
Has Scholarly Publishing Overstayed at the Hybrid Hotel?
Scholarly publishing analyst Rob Johnson contemplates the dilemma at the heart of hybrid Open Access business models
The Risks of Writing
Who knew writing a book required a law degree?
Aspirations & Anxieties – How Authors Consider Copyright
How do authors consider the threats to their livelihoods, and how are they managing the opportunities? What, in other words, do the actual copyright holders think about copyright?
Can A Robot Hold a Copyright?
You can’t have original expression without intent, and you can’t have intent without self-awareness.
YouTube Knows Who You Are
The world’s largest music streaming platform is also a search engine and a video platform – YouTube. The Alphabet-owned company, which Google acquired in 2006, holds a 25% share of the streaming music market.
The Future of Digital First Sale
In an era when streaming is overtaking downloads, how much does First Sale even matter?
Pro-Digital & Pro-Copyright
There is huge value in the curation and the discovery of important information. And there’s a gap in terms of how that is then turned into a commercial model.
Manga Translates Infringement
In the ’90s, scanlation was still a fan passion project. At some point, that changed. The scanlation sites became more about piracy. And they just don’t care.