http://kluwercopyrightblog.com/2013/12/03/open-access-to-scientific-articles-comparing-italian-with-german-law/

See also here in German
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/565869366/

http://hanken.halvi.helsinki.fi/portal/files/2323707/Lakso_2014_Green_OA_Policies_Accepted_Version_.pdf

"Of the 1,1 million articles included in the analysis, 80.4% could be uploaded either as an accepted manuscript or publisher version to an institutional or subject repository after one year of publication.
Publishers were found to be substantially more permissive with allowing accepted manuscripts on personal webpages
(78.1% of articles) or in institutional repositories (79.9%) compared to subject repositories (32.8%)"

Melissa Terra is angry:

http://melissaterras.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/im-not-going-to-edit-your-10000-pay-to.html

"One of the most outrageous and brazen crimes against manuscript books
occurred in 2001, when the magnificent, still-complete, and
beautifully bound illuminated manuscript known as the “Album de
Charles de Croy” was sold at Sotheby’s London (19 June 2001 lot 47:
GBP 1,213,500 including buyer’s premium) and immediately carved up
like a piece of meat." (Michael Laird)

Read more:
http://archivalia.tumblr.com/post/67965883771/album-de-charles-de-croy-was-broken-up-in-2001

See also
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/565872590/
http://kulturgut.hypotheses.org/286
http://archivalia.tumblr.com/post/65133745036/david-gura-curator-of-ancient-and-medieval

Update:
EARLY SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH MANUSCRIPT, MADE FOR CHARLES, DUC DE CROY, CONTAINING FIVE COLOURED VIEWS AND MAPS, SIGNED AND ANNOTATED BY THE DUKE ("DECROY") AND DATED BY HIM 30 APRIL 1606
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/876868393/

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/40666

The Open Access Button "is a browser bookmark tool that allows users to report when they hit paywalled access to academic articles and discover open access versions of that research. The button was created by university students David Carroll and Joseph McArthur, and announced at the Berlin 11 Student and Early Stage Researcher Satellite Conference."

https://www.openaccessbutton.org/

Update:
http://infobib.de/blog/2013/11/19/start-des-open-access-button/

http://io9.com/yes-in-the-original-draft-of-watership-down-bigwig-de-1457295783

http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/nov13/Eichenlaub--Checking-In-With-Google-Books.shtml

The article by Naomi Eichenlaub will provide a “state of the environment” update for these digital library projects including project history and background. It will also examine some challenges common to all three projects including copyright, orphan works, metadata, and quality issues.

"Archives & Special Collections is pleased to announce the online availability of the papers associated with the trial of the Nazi major war criminals found in the Senator Thomas J. Dodd Papers.

Dodd served as Executive Trial Counsel and supervisor of the U.S. prosecution team at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg from July 1945 through October 1946, where he shaped many of the strategies and policies through which this unprecedented trial took place. Representing a small proportion of his entire collection housed at the Archives & Special Collections at the University of Connecticut, Dodd’s Nuremberg papers contain documentation relating to the proceedings of the Nuremberg Trials that are available nowhere else, such as hand annotated drafts of trial briefs and annotated translations of German documents. Found in Series VII of the Thomas J. Dodd Papers, the documents have been heavily used by scholars from around the world since they were opened to the public in 1997.

The nearly 50,000 pages of documents in the Nuremberg papers will be digitized over the next two years and made available through the Connecticut Digital Archive, a joint program of the UConn Libraries and the Connecticut State Library. Explore the Nuremberg Trial Papers at http://archives.lib.uconn.edu "

Archives-L

Jennifer Lowe in EXLIBRIS:

"1) Most dramatically, L’Espresso provides heartbreaking footage of the looted Girolamini. (Scroll past the first paragraph.)
http://espresso.repubblica.it/attualita/2013/10/24/news/saccheggio-biblioteca-dei-girolamini-continua-la-caccia-ai-libri-rubati-1.138956

2) The antidote, if you can call it that, is that the Girolamini church complex, including the library, has been placed under the protection of the Italian Ministry of Culture, which has pledged €10m to restore the site.
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Italys-culture-ministry-takes-over-management-of-plundered-Girolamini-church/30791

3) Herbert Schauer of auction house Zisska & Schauer was extradited to Italy on November 5th and is now in prison in Rebibbia, a suburb of Rome. Prosecutors believe he was aware of the origin of the books consigned to him by De Caro’s accomplices. 2,700 books have been recovered by international investigators, but an estimated 1,300 remain in circulation.
http://espresso.repubblica.it/attualita/2013/11/06/news/estradato-in-italia-il-libraio-dei-girolamini-1.140227

4) Fabrizio Govi, President of the Association of Antiquarian Booksellers of Italy, registered a protest against the authorities for failing to provide a list of stolen books and showing no immediate concern about the circulation of forgeries.
http://www.ilab.org/eng/documentation/1221-latest_news_about_the_girolamini_thefts.html

5) Keep your eyes peeled for a forthcoming New Yorker article on the De Caro thefts and forgeries by staff writer Nicholas Schmidle, who was conducting interviews back in July and said to expect the article to run sometime this fall."

http://the1709blog.blogspot.de/2013/11/as-just-announced-on-ipkat-google-books.html

"In July last the Second Circuit delivered its decision, substantially agreeing with Google and holding Judge Chin's class certification as "premature in the absence of a determination by the District Court [ie Judge Chin] of the merits of Google's 'fair use' defense".

Hence, the Second Circuit decided to remand the cause to the District Court for consideration of the fair use issues.

As reported by Reuters a few minutes ago, today Judge Chin accepted Google's argument that that its scanning of more than 20 million books for an electronic database, and making "snippets" of text available for online searches, constituted fair use. "In my view, Google Books provide significant public benefits", said Judge Chin.

Today's ruling is BIG news for anyone interested in copyright."