Sentences with word «rightsholder»

To date, Google has scanned 12 million books, mostly without the permission of rightsholders.

-- The Book Rights Registry that Google and the plaintiffs had agreed to establish will search for rightsholders who have not yet come forward and to hold revenue on their behalf.

«Libraries shall acquire digital copies of works in their collections only from rightsholders or their licensing agencies» but not from «Agents, publishers, aggregators, retailers, and libraries»

As predicted last week, search - engine owners have reached an agreement with rightsholders on a new «voluntary code of practice» in the UK to tackle links to copyright - infringing content on their services.

They announced their own responsibility for undertaking actions, inviting and encourage similar actions and commitments by other rightsholders and stakeholders, communicating a vision for healthy communities, sustainable and equitable human well - being and its associated strategies, and coming together in the form of a global citizen's movement to shepherd the transition to a sustainable, equitable, and democratic future.

Faced with this outcome, the government might tip the balance in libraries» favour by forcing rightsholders to make big concessions, effectively subsidising libraries and setting up an even stronger competitor for booksellers.

STEP 1 — CSI Review: Each quarter, CSI reviews the details of the royalties paid into the Licensing Trust to identify rightsholders based on newly registered copyright ownership shares or licences which may have since been issued by CMRRA or SODRAC, in order to make an initial distribution on these items;

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware The issue of orphan works — out of print, still - in - copyright books, films, photographs, etc. whose rightsholders can't be found — is one that has been much in the news lately.

It's safe to say that music rightsholders don't give a stuff what Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde thinks about Spotify and Netflix.

The company's legal issues with music rightsholders — Sony Music and Warner Music launched legal proceedings against it in the UK late last year — aren't mentioned in the report.

For the baseball broadcast, Facebook said it will use a feed from a participating team's local broadcast rightsholder.

It happened a few years back, between Bethesda Softworks, developers of the Elder Scrolls series and current Fallout rightsholders, and Interplay Entertainment, publishers of all Fallout games released before 2008.

British, Australian, and Canadian rightsholders are joining the case as named plaintiffs and will also be represented on the Board of the Book Rights Registry.

After hearing feedback from foreign rightsholders, the plaintiffs decided to narrow the class to include only these countries, which share a common legal heritage and similar book industry practices.

And given that everyone is so positive that you CAN find rightsholders for most of these unclaimed works, why not go out and find them first, then ask if they want to be included.

What makes the case so intriguing is the allegation that the money in question should have been distributed to movie and TV industry associations and their underlying rightsholders.

They believe that «many rightsholders will be more comfortable with the text - to - speech feature if they are in the driver's seat.»

Google Editions is separate from the Google Book Search programme which has landed Google in hot water through its attempt to digitise millions of the world's books without rightsholder permission.

While all titles recommended on this website must meet our standards for price, quality, and appropriate content, some publishers or rightsholders compensate us for prominent placement on the site or in our email bulletins.

DRM, and the laws behind it, have contributed to a sense among rightsholders that they can and should control media and devices even after users have purchased them.

Representation of Canadian, UK and Australian Rightsholders on the Board of the Registry.

That American rightsholders have decided to sell their rights in other jurisdictions, rather than make them freely available in other jurisdictions with no additional revenue, is surely a business decision that has nothing to do with any «ignorances and capitulations» that Canadians may have made.

YouTube music boss Lyor Cohen has been winding up rightsholders recently with his views on why the «value gap» debate is overblown.

The weekly broadcasts on Facebook will come from a feed of a participating team's local broadcaster rightsholder, the companies said.

Subversive rightsholders can apply pressure on these intermediaries to silence speech they don't like.

Copyright Bots Aren't Always Bad, But They Shouldn't Be in Charge In 2007, Google built Content ID, a technology that lets rightsholders submit large databases of video and audio fingerprints and have YouTube continually scan new uploads for potential matches to those fingerprints.

Laches is a legal doctrine that says rightsholders can't sit on their rights.

This week's announcement that Spotify had cut a multi-year licensing deal with UMG, and the subsequent deals with other rightsholders that will certainly follow, paves the way for Spotify to become a public company.

Its planned copyright changes to let libraries lend ebooks with or without publisher permission shows it's not averse to forcing rightsholders» hands.

As the subscription rights plan provides for an injection of an additional $ 5.6 million into the GYRO (and thence the combined) entity it certainly wouldn't be attractive for rightsholders to exercise unless the liquidation payout percentages were adjusted.

Libraries shall acquire digital copies of works in their collections only from rightsholders or their licensing agencies.

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware The issue of orphan works — out of print, still - in - copyright books, films, photographs, etc. whose rightsholders can't be found — is one that has been much in the news over the past few years.

The fact is that rightsholders do have serious concerns and librarians have not managed to address them.

Rightsholders will still receive 63 % of the revenue, while retailers will keep the majority of the remaining 37 %.

Royalty Portal — give your authors and rightsholders their royalty information online!

Affiliated Authors and Rightsholders We Do Not Control: We are affiliated and work closely with a variety of authors and rightsholders (e.g., publishers, independent authors, print co-ops, etc.) In certain situations, these businesses sell items to you through BookBaby's Website, for example, the publishers, authors and other artists from which you purchase or use products or services through the Website.

But tough as it is, it's essential we all begin a rational and open debate about the challenges faced by both rightsholders and libraries, and the new opportunities that digital reading presents to address social as well as business needs.

As publishers and agents have started to realize with exasperation today, a number of titles in the Kindle Lending Library program — including some of the bestselling, prominently - promoted titles on the program's home page — are part of this new initiative without the consent or affirmative participation of the publishers and rightsholders.

While the tiered pricing model could prove to be a better deal for publishers and authors, Stromberg says his team tried to learn from existing digital subscription services and put together a revenue model that «really puts the rightsholder's interest first and makes sense over decades.»

«The rightsholder shall specify the maximum amount to be made available»?

Ebook retailers shall require the rightsholder's permission for any free preview or download of an ework, and the rightsholder shall specify the maximum amount to be made available.

The settlement now also specifies that a portion of the revenue generated from unclaimed works may, after five years, be used to locate rightsholders, but will no longer be used for the Registry's general operations or redistributed to other rightsholders.

-- The revision clarifies that rightsholders can choose to make their books available for free or allow re-use under Creative Commons or other