- As expected, The Authors Guild has filed a Notice of Appeal in the Google Books fair use copyright case
- Southern District of New York Judge Abrams has certified an interlocutory appeal to the Second Circuit to determine whether the DMCA safe-harbor provisions apply to pre-1972 sound recordings, and in addition “whether, under Viacom v. YouTube, a service provider’s viewing of a user-generated video containing all or virtually all of a recognizable, copyrighted song may establish ‘facts or circumstances’ giving rise to ‘red flag’ knowledge of infringement.”
- The Tenth Circuit holds that a claim for violation of copyright right of distribution against library accrues (for purposes of three year statute of limitations) when the library lists dissertation in catalogue information system. Diversey v. Schmidley
- N. D. Ill. judge holds that pre-1923 characters, character traits and other story elements from Sherlock Holmes stories are in public domain – Klinger v. Conan Doyle
- A Look Back at Copyright Review in 2013, by Terry Hart at Copyright Alliance . . .
- …. and another look back at 2013 on The 1709 Blog – 2013 – The Copyright Year
- A map showing when books enter public domain around the world . . . .
- . . . . and how this results in Sylvia Plath’s work entering the public domain in Canada, many countries in Africa, the Caribbean and Asia, but not in the U.S. or EU member states.
- The top four tech legal cases to watch in 2014 (ArsTechnica)
- Massachusetts federal district court judge upholds verdict for violation of Stored Communications Act based on unauthorized access of email account
- An Ambiguous Battle: The Promise (and Pathos) of Public Domain Day, 2014, by Jennifer Jenkins