Watkins\u27 Patent trolls: Predatory litigation and the smothering of innovation (Book Review)

A review of Watkins, W. J., Jr. (2013). Patent trolls: Predatory litigation and the smothering of innovation. Oakland, CA: The Independent Institute. 96 pp. $17.95. ISBN 978159813170

The Georgia State University Copyright Case after the Appeal: Is It More Appealing?

This presentation covers the Appellate Court review of the District Court\u27s findings in the academic publishers\u27 and Copyright Clearance Center\u27s case against Georgia State University\u27s electronic reserve policies

The Georgia State University Copyright Case (Cambridge University Press v. Becker) and What It Means for Librarians

The Federal District Court in the Georgia State University copyright case (Cambridge University Press v Becker) constructed a carefully defined, but expansive Fair Use “safe harbor”. Academic libraries and not-for-profit educational institutions can use this “safe harbor” to make copies of copyright-protected materials and distribute them to students in a carefully controlled manner. The decision requires safeguards to help ensure that copies do not get disseminated beyond their intended audience. It also gives more flexibility in cases where publishers do not make smaller excerpts readily available. The Georgia State decision has been reported as allowing up to 10%,or a single chapter of a copyrighted work to be copied as “Fair Use”. This is an over-simplification of the court’s four factor “Fair Use” analysis. If one wishes to make wise, ethical decisions regarding the copying of copyrighted materials, one should have at least a general understanding of the four “Fair Use” factors and know how the court used them in the Georgia State case. The librarian community should also understand that this area of the law is still in a state of flux. This is the first case of its kind and the Publishers have appealed the decision, so it still could be modified on appeal. Other courts could also take a different approach. Still, this is a landmark case that has set a pattern that other courts are likely to follow or react against. The pattern set by this court is one that should allow librarians to act with greater confidence when making reasonable “Fair Use” decisions

The Georgia State University Copyright Case after the Appeal: Is It More Appealing?

This presentation covers the Appellate Court review of the District Court\u27s findings in the academic publishers\u27 and Copyright Clearance Center\u27s case against Georgia State University\u27s electronic reserve policies

Optimal time decay of the non cut-off Boltzmann equation in the whole space

In this paper we study the large-time behavior of perturbative classical solutions to the hard and soft potential Boltzmann equation without the angular cut-off assumption in the whole space \threed_x with \DgE. We use the existence theory of global in time nearby Maxwellian solutions from \cite{gsNonCutA,gsNonCut0}. It has been a longstanding open problem to determine the large time decay rates for the soft potential Boltzmann equation in the whole space, with or without the angular cut-off assumption \cite{MR677262,MR2847536}. For perturbative initial data, we prove that solutions converge to the global Maxwellian with the optimal large-time decay rate of O(t^{-\frac{\Ndim}{2}+\frac{\Ndim}{2r}}) in the L^2_\vel(L^r_x)-norm for any $2\leq r\leq \infty$.Comment: 31 pages, final version to appear in KR

Global Newtonian limit for the Relativistic Boltzmann Equation near Vacuum

We study the Cauchy Problem for the relativistic Boltzmann equation with near Vacuum initial data. Unique global in time "mild" solutions are obtained uniformly in the speed of light parameter $c \ge 1$. We furthermore prove that solutions to the relativistic Boltzmann equation converge to solutions of the Newtonian Boltzmann equation in the limit as $c\to\infty$ on arbitrary time intervals $[0,T]$, with convergence rate $1/c^{2-\epsilon}$ for any $\epsilon \in(0,2)$. This may be the first proof of unique global in time validity of the Newtonian limit for a Kinetic equation.Comment: 35 page