Ig Nobel awards publisher to go free online
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Journal of unusual research projects and host of famous awards ceremony to offer free issues online.
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(InfoWorld) - Google Inc. has reached an agreement with two groups representing authors and photographers in Belgium that had objected to the way the company indexes and displays their content on its Google News Web site. The agreements with Sofam, which says it represents 3,700 photographers, and Scam, which represents 20,000 writers, mark the first steps by Google in resolving a copyright lawsuit that forced it to remove French- and German-language Belgian newspaper content from its Web site. On Friday, a judge in Brussels heard arguments in that case, filed by a group of newspaper publishers, Copiepresse. Sofam (SociÃ©tÃ© MultimÃ©dia des Auteurs des Arts Visuels) and Scam (SociÃ©tÃ© Civile des Auteurs Multimedia) were among several smaller groups that had joined Copiepresse in its legal action. "We reached an agreement with Sofam and Scam that allows us to make extensive use of their content," Google spokeswoman Jessica Powell said on Monday. The agreement allows Google to use content from the groups in "new ways" that "go beyond what copyright law allows," she said. She declined to say if Google is paying the groups or to provide further details. Google has signed a deal to use content from the Associated Press newswire that it described in similar language. Copiepresse has complained that Google violates its members' copyrights by indexing their content and displaying it on Google News without asking permission. Google says the use is legitimate because it shows only a snippet of news stories, and because it directs users to the publications' Web sites to read the full story. On Friday, the judge in Brussels said she would give her verdict in the case early next year. Google News has also run into trouble in Scandinavia, where it launched two weeks ago. The company delayed the introduction of the news service in Denmark after publishers there objected to having to "opt out" if they didn't want their content displayed on Google's Web site. And a publishing group in Norway has protested the use of its members' news photographs, which it says is not permitted under Norwegian copyright law. Google has declined to comment on talks with any particular publishing groups, but says it is open to discussions to resolve disputes. Â
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DC Comics is launching an online imprint that will accept submissions from the public and pay for the best work that comes in.
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Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi's memoirs will be published in the United States after a change in U.S. regulations on publication of authors from embargoed countries, Random House said on Friday.
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New products will include a free Acrobat reader with reviewing capabilities.
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The eating habits of dung beetles, the attraction of mosquitoes to Limburger cheese, and "digital rectal massage" were among the research awarded at this year's Ig Nobels.
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Search engine Google plans to offer consumers the chance to download and print classic novels free of charge.
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WASHINGTON -- If you have access to the Internet, you can also have access to some of the latest medical information. A new online medical journal is making its research articles available free of charge via the Internet.
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The shortlist for a prize aimed at awarding blogs that become books has been announced.
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One of the most respected journals in the world will soon have a new editor-in-chief, but Science seems unlikely to change its course to support open access, which would make journal content free, under the new leadership.
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ThinkFree Online, a free Web-based service, allows people to create documents and save them in Microsoft Office-compatible formats.
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Harvard University will soon begin posting research and articles produced by its faculty on the Internet free of charge.
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If a herring asks you to pull his finger, be very afraid. Thatâs one of the lessons derived from this yearâs Ig Nobel awards ceremony, an event that honors offbeat scientific achievements.
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Publish or perish has long been the burden of every aspiring university professor. But the question the Harvard faculty will decide on Tuesday is whether to publish â on the Web, at least â free.
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The honour carries a cash prize of 25,000 euros (some $32,000). The awards panel described the book as "a work in which a long history of literary creation and critical and theoretical reflection unfolds with ...
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InfoWorld - Two years after The New York Times started charging for access to some content on its Web site, the Gray Lady is changing tack and will make the content available for free.
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Recipients of this year's Ig Nobel Prizes, which honor the best in oddball research, run the gamut from a nudist library to a psychology experiment featuring a man in a gorilla suit to a recent finding that herrings communicate by farting. By Mark Baard.