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Book Business Interview with Michael Healy Re: the Registry
A nice, brief take on Michael’s vision for the BRR. Interview with Michael Healy.
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Publishing Going to Hell in a Bucket? At Least I’m Enjoying the Ride!
Everyone is wondering where publishing is heading. The headlines and pundits talk about the end of the book, the end of the bookstore. There is so much to worry about. Well the time has come to stop worrying and to enjoy the ride. With the potentially immenent establishment of the Book Rights Registry (BRR),...
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Creating Standards for the Book Rights Registry: Using Existing Standards Part 3 – ONIX for RRO’s
I would like to express a particular thanks to Mark Bide, Executive Director of EDItEUR, for his patience and wisdom in helping me to better understand ONIX for RRO’s. I would also like to thank Piero Attanasio, for his guidance in helping me understand ARROW, and their involvement in the creation of ONIX for...
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Creating Standards for the Book Rights Registry: Using Existing Standards Part 2 – ARROW
In part I of this series, we explored the possibility of incorporating ACAP’s work into a standard for the Book Rights Registry transactions. In this post, we will look at the possibility of incorporating ARROW. As described by the Arrow website, “Solutions envisaged by include the establishment of systems for the exchange of...
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EU Not Too Happy with the Google Book Settlement
From Bloomberg: “What Google is doing, i.e. scanning of books without authorization of the right holders whilst giving them the opportunity to opt-out is without doubt a violation of European copyright laws,” said Stijn Debaene, a copyright specialist with law firm Allen & Overy LLP in Brussels. There’s “no doubt” that the hearing will...
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The Library Perspective on the Google Book Settlement
The article is a bit dated by today’s standards, but it has a good summary of the issues: http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/rli-264-google.pdf.
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Creating Standards for the Book Rights Registry: Using Existing Standards Part 1 – ACAP
There are several components that need to be involved in this standard, including: Uniquely identifying discrete content, including components (aka chunking) of existing content Associating available rights and usage of that content, and corresponding pricing Protocols for communicating that content and rights (the message) to the BRR Protocols for messaging acceptance status by the...
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BRR on The Mind in the EU Too!
As many know, I am a huge believer in the Book Rights Registry proposed by the AAP/Authors Guild/Google settlement. I believe it represents a huge opportunity for our industry. Apparently, the EU shares many of these beliefs in such a concept – at least the top “digital” policy maker does. Read a brief from...
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