Pamela Samuelson Archives

May 15, 2014Morning Roundup: Split-screen multitasking in iOS 8? Baked-in DRM on next Firefox

Founder of Just-Launched Authors Alliance Talks to PW (Publishers Weekly) PW contributing editor Peter Brantley recently caught up with Pamela Samuelson to talk more about the Authors Alliance. *** Mozilla to Bake-In DRM in Next Version of Firefox (The Digital Reader) Earlier today Mozilla acquiesced to a market reality which ebook retailers have known for […]

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May 14, 2014New author advocacy group Authors Alliance seeks to counterbalance Authors Guild on fair use issues

A group of writers and copyright experts concerned over Authors Guild overreach has formed its own new author advocacy group, the Authors Alliance, to advocate in favor of fair use of works. Publishers Weekly has a fairly long interview with one of its directors, law professor Pamela Samuelson of the UC Berkeley Center for Law […]

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April 16, 2012Serving a public that knows how to copy: orphan works and mass digitization

That’s the title of an article in Peter Brantley’s blog at Publishers Weekly. The entire article is well worth your time. The UC Berkeley Center for Law and Technology(BCLT) is among the most eminent study centers for intellectual property (IP) law. Coordinated by Professor Pamela Samuelson, this last week it pulled together approximately 200 highly [...]

February 17, 2012Academics Object to Class Certification in Google Books Case

From an article in The Digital Shift: University of California, Berkeley, law professor Pamela Samuelson, on behalf of more than 80 academics, sent a letter on Monday to Judge Denny Chin asserting that academic authors should not be included as part of a class authorization in the high profile Google Books case, due to fundamental disagreements [...]