Up front: Google Books copyright battle reheats
August 2009 > Last month, the US Government raised the curtain on the first stage of its project to make its own affairs and research completely transparent, with its launch of Data.gov. It's an interesting journey down the road of raw data, complete with a fairly polished front entryway that still smells of drying plaster and paint, even from your Web browser. For instance, if you want to see the entire government data records on probable causes of airline flight delays since 1987, there it is.
But not everyone can make sense of that much raw data, so in lieu of a bunch of analysts from...what, iSuppli?...federal CIO Vivek Kundra tells GCN's Wyatt Kash that his department is busy at work on a Data.gov 2.0 that may feature some new applications for helping folks sift through all of this. This refresh of the site may come in the next few months, Kundra says.
June 9-10 > The World Copyright Summit concludes today. During yesterday's proceedings, International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers director-general Eric Baptiste stated that though he didn't believe the CISAC could challenge the Google Books settlement, his organization would support any member that did. What will be siad and done before the event is over?
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