TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Kenneth Crew of the Columbia University Copyright Advisory Office has a first-hand report of the status conference which he attended today. You can read the full report here. No great news, except that the Judge set November 9 as the date for the parties to submit the revised settlement agreement. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. [...]
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
On Monday (November 9th), a revised proposed settlement (aka Settlement 2.0) from Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publisher will be released. The Open Book Alliance (OBA) has posted on its web site what they call “baseline requirements” for the Settlement 2.0. The Special Libraries Association and The New York Library Association [...]
The Technology Chronicles (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Monday is the deadline for Google Inc. and other parties in the landmark books lawsuit to submit a revised settlement proposal, but some already say it won't be enough to satisfy critics. "If...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Like many others, the Open Book Alliance awaits the release on November 9 of a revised proposed settlement from Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers. If repeated signals from Google and its partners over the last month are to be taken at face value, we don't expect significant changes to the earlier settlement proposal...
FREELANCE RIGHTS (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Kenneth Crews, director of the Copyright Advisory Office at Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, has a useful scorecard of bullet points we should be reading closely in the revised Google Books settlement. Settlement 2.0 is scheduled for submission shortly to U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin. See Crews' blog post "Getting Ready for November 9," http://copyright.columbia.edu/google-books-getting-ready-november-9...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The latest twist in the ongoing settlement talks between Google and book authors is that yesterday, the judge in the case denied an attempt by photographers to become part of the settlement. In the decision (embedded below), Judge Denny Chin basically ruled that photographers are not authors, and that the settlement only covers "word-based material," with the exception of illustrations in...
The Laboratorium (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Two online magazines have posted symposia on the Google Book Search settlement. There’s original writing from some of the top scholars working in the area. Unfortunately, both of these magazines feature gated access! Big frowny face. First, the Economists’ Voice...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Michael was the former Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group and is now the designated Executive Director of Books Rights Registry, part of the Google book settlement. The interview is at the Publishing Point site, along with an earlier interview with Cory Doctorow. If you are in the New York area, Publishing Point [...]
FREELANCE RIGHTS (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
We're waiting for the Supreme Court ruling in "Freelance" ( Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick ) and for the revised Google Books settlement in federal district court. In the meantime, blogger Eric Rumsey has posted a must-read piece, "Google Books Integrated into Google Search Results," http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/hardinmd/2009/10/30/google-books-integrated-into-google-search-results/ . I...
TechnoLlama (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Another famous orphan There is a growing sense in copyright circles that something needs to be done about orphan works. In many ways, we can thank the Google Book Settlement for jolting policy-makers into action by including a clause in the agreement that deals with future orphan works legislation. In case you missed it, the [...]
Digitization 101 (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
I listened to this podcast this week and found it very well done ( Google Books Settlement: Update With Lois Wasoff ). Chris Kenneally interviewed copyright lawyer and policy attorney Lois Wasoff for nearly 60 minutes about the Google Book Settlement in late September. At that time, changes were (and still are) brewing in the settlement. Wasoff does an excellent job talking about the history of the...
China Hearsay (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Google has really been getting horrific press here recently. Reminds me of Microsoft earlier in the decade. After the Google Books settlement issue and the complaints from Chinese authors, now People’s Daily seems to be getting in the act with the following accusation: [T]he Web site of the People’s Daily is accusing Google of “malicious [...]
Silicon.com (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Amazon's Kindle e-book and Google's Book Search will change the way we read books forever. And that will keep the lawyers plenty busy, says Callum Sinclair. The internet, as the daddy of all disruptive technologies, heralded a new era of litigation. Now with Amazon's Kindle e-book reader available internationally - in the UK and some 100 other countries - and all the controversy over the Google Book...
Library Boy (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
The American Library Association (ALA) has put together a website on the proposed Google Book Settlement . In late 2008, Google and associations representing U.S. authors and publishers came to a deal to end a class action lawsuit for copyright infringement launched against the search giant. Google is scanning millions of books, including many still covered by copyright, in order to make them available...
POD, Self Publishing and Independent Publishing (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Judge Denny Chin, presiding over the Google Books Settlement case, has again been requested by opponents to ensure they are given ‘sufficient time to study and comment on any amended settlement agreement’ and that there are no limits on any objections. The call came from Yahoo and Microsoft, two of the most significant corporate objectors to Google. Earlier this month, Judge Denny Chin...
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