A children's book author claims that her book, Stocks and Bonds, was uploaded on Scribd without her permission, and has been downloaded over 100 times. Scribd turns pdf files into readily accessible iPaper documents that can open inside a browser. The author talks to school children often about copyright and plagiarism.  Justia is providing the case filings here, and making them available via an RSS feed.

Peter Hirtle's commentary looks at this Ann Arbor (MI) copyshop case in which the students make the copies of coursepack readings themselves. Interesting discussion that indirect infringement may not apply if the students are not infringing. Thus there must be a claim of direct infringement by the copyshop.

Letters are pouring in to the court on the Google Book Settlement case.  We are also featuring an interview on the case with a publisher's viewpoint.