All posts by Agata Mrva-Montoya

Internet Archive’s digital library has been found in breach of copyright. The decision has some important implications

Internet Archive’s digital library has been found in breach of copyright. The decision has some important implications

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. “Information wants to be free” – but at what cost? The Internet Archive was founded in 1996 as a non-profit digital library, aiming to provide “universal access to all knowledge”. It started with a project to preserve the…

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The sale of publisher Simon & Schuster is good news for staff and authors, but the long-term implications are uncertain

The sale of publisher Simon & Schuster is good news for staff and authors, but the long-term implications are uncertain

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. A year after the US Department of Justice blocked the merger of two of the world’s biggest publishers, a New York-based private equity investment firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., has agreed to buy Simon & Schuster. Even…

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