Robert Ambrogi BlogLast week, the FBI arrested blogger Kevin Cogill (a/k/a Skwerl) of Culver City, Calif., on suspicion of violating a federal copyright law for posting nine tracks to his blog from the unreleased and much anticipated Guns N’ Roses album Chinese Democracy. On this week’s legal-affairs podcast Lawyer2Lawyer, we discuss…
Older Copyright Renewal Records Now Available
Both beSpacific and Creative Commons provide pointers to the news reported on the blog Inside Google Book Search that Google Book Search now has copyright data for pre-1978 books, enabling users to determine whether books are in the public domain:
…“How do you find out whether a book was renewed? You