These are our top 5 tweets for 2016! Thanks for all the Twitter love, everybody! Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo The @utlibraries scholarly publishing site is now live! Learn about #openaccess, #opendata, #copyright and more! http://goo.gl/EM493D Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo ACRL Releases Updated Scholarly Communication Toolkit http://www.acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/archives/12559#.V_K4uLRy3x4.twitter … Texas ScholarWorks @utdigitalrepo More #openaccess… read more
Carla Hayden: New Librarian Of Congress
We at Texas ScholarWorks wanted to congratulate Carla Hayden on her appointment as the new Librarian of Congress! She is not only the first women to hold the post, but the first African American. We wish her luck and we are confident that she will provide the knowledge and experience… read more
Google Books copyright case
The Google Books copyright case (Authors Guild vs Google) is finally over – more than 10 years after it started. The Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal from the authors which means the Second Circuit Court decision stands – that the Google Books digitization project was a fair use.… read more
Scholarly publishing site live
It’s my pleasure to announce that our long awaited scholarly publishing site is now live: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/services/scholarly-publishing
Scholarly communication learning opportunities
Winter/spring semester 2016 is full of learning opportunities on a variety of scholarly communication topics. Friday, February 12th, 12:30-1:30: Deceptive -vs- ethical publishing practices. PCL 1.124 Wednesday, February 17th, 1:00-2:00: Copyright and academic work. Learning Lab 2 (PCL 2.340). Wednesday, March 2nd, 12:00-1:00: Statistics in Texas ScholarWorks. PCL 1.124 UT… read more
Happy Birthday to You!
A district judge ruled yesterday that Warner-Chappell does not own the copyright to Happy Birthday. Warner-Chappell had been collecting licensing fees on the song that reportedly totaled 2 million dollars a year. For more information about the ruling: http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2015/09/happy-birthday-to-everyone-candles.html http://www.plainsite.org/dockets/u2yv5yz8/california-central-district-court/rupa-marya-v-warner-chappell-music-inc/
Fair Use Week is coming
In celebration of all things fair use, UT Austin will be participating in Fair Use Week, Feb. 23th-27th. We’ll have a blog post from some UT Austin folks who were involved in creating a jazz appreciation MOOC, and we’ll be promoting the events, videos, and general expertise that are being… read more
More publisher take-down notices
The American Society of Civil Engineers has hired a firm called Digimarc to police the uploading of publisher PDF versions of their articles on personal or university websites. The take-down notices have gone out to many universities around the world. For more information: General information: http://torrentfreak.com/publishers-targets-university-researchers-pirating-articles-140516/ Information about these take-down… read more
Lawrence Lessig lawsuit
Fair use got a win with Lawrence Lessig’s lawsuit against an Australian record label. Lessig used clips of a song by Phoenix in a lecture that was posted on YouTube. Liberation Music, the label representing Phoenix, issued a take-down notice for the lecture and then threatened to sue when Lessig… read more
The Simpsons teach us about copyright
I was getting caught up on my Hulu backlog and found a very funny episode from the Simpsons about movie piracy and copyright infringement. It does a good job of poking fun at the extreme lengths Hollywood (and our government) will go to protect the profits from the movies they… read more
