Deeplinks (Free subscription) | yesterday
This is the fourth in a series of posts about the proposed Google Book Search settlement. We have now examined the chief promised benefit ( increased public access ) of the proposed Google Books settlement, as well as one of the chief potential drawbacks ( impaired competition ). Another down-side to the proposed settlement is its lack of adequate protections for reader privacy. And although EFF has...
PersonaNonData (Free subscription) | yesterday
Copyright law expert Lois Wasoff discusses the most important changes and revisions to the Google Book Settlement in a PodCast ( here ). Some of her main points include: the underlying structure of the agreement and many of the economic terms of the agreement have not changed the revised proposal makes it more difficult for Google to simply decide a work is not commercially available and start to use...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | yesterday
The FEP, which represents publishers from 26 European countries, is very concerned about the Settlement, even after the revisions. They feel that there is a lack of information about European works which may still be included in the deal because the works are registered with the US Copyright Office. Additionally, Amazon has filed an [...]
Internet News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here We Go Again! The Revised Google Book Settlement by Barbara Quint, Newsbreaks (Nov 23) Barbara Quint finds that on closer examination, "the revised settlement seems to reveal that the changes from the original settlement are not as major as...
FREELANCE RIGHTS (Free subscription) | yesterday
[originally published on November 18 at Beyond Chron, http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/In_Google_Books_Settlement_2_0_Obama_Justice_Is_the_Great_Decider_7565.html ] In Google Books Settlement 2.0, Obama Justice Is the Great Decider by Irvin Muchnick An audacious global settlement of a copyright dispute between Google’s “ask forgiveness, not permission” book-scanning project and...
Law Librarian Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
US District Court Judge Denny Chin granted preliminary approval to the Amended Google Book Settlement Agreement on Nov. 19th [text of order] and set the following schedule for proceeding forward: Dec. 14, 2009: Supplemental Notices sent about the Amended Settlement...
DigitalKoans (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The UCLA Library has made The Google Books Settlement: Issues and Options, a digital video featuring copyright expert Jonathan Band, available on YouTube. Related Posts Preliminary Approval Granted for Amended Google Book Search Settlement Google Book Search Settlement Amended Google Books Settlement Status Conference Reports The Google Books Settlement: Who Is Filing And What Are They Saying? Kenneth...
IPKat—IP news and fun for everyone (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Last week the AmeriKat could be seen rushing all over the city attending hearings, running errands, moving a bed across town or just trying to get to a variety of appointments all on time. In fact you may have been one of the unsuspecting shoppers on Oxford Street yesterday whom she mowed down while racing to her fur appointment. The distances and routes were not extraordinarily challenging or long...
Booksellers Association (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Today we hear all about the world of DRM (Digital Rights management), copyright, pirates, and a wide debate on what is fair use and what is infringement. The whole Google Book Settlement started out as a case action against Google for copyright infringement. The consequence of it being settled out of court means the case was never proven. This has offered Google the opportunity to put ‘chump...
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
The Special Libraries Association of the New York Library Association are members of the Open Book Alliance. From the Blog Post: …the Open Book Alliance released an extensive compilation of third party analysis of the revised Google Books Settlement. The wide-ranging consensus from a diverse chorus of voices is that the revised Settlement is barely distinguishable [...]
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
The judge overseeing the Google Books case has laid out the schedule for the second round of the final approval process, at the same time granting preliminary approval of the revised deal.Like before, opponents of Google's settlement with groups representing authors and publishers will have a comment period in which to file objections, and books rights holders who want to preserve their ability to...
Mises Economics Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
I posted the following comment to Cory Doctorow's BoingBoing post Competition and Google Book Search: Cory, Google is not perfect but the attacks on them for attempting this seem to me to be demonizing the wrong party. The problem is...
Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
New York - The judge overseeing the settlement agreement between Google (NASD: GOOG) and authors and publishers over the direction of its massive book-scanning project has pushed a hearing on a revised settlement back to Feb. 18, while at the same time granted preliminary approval to the new deal. "The preliminary approval order sends a positive initial message; this agreement promises to benefit...
Corante (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
In case you didn't have enough reading to do this weekend, here are couple of items analyzing the Google Books settlement. First, Fred von Lohmann at EFF just published his third blog entry on the topic. The first piece, very short, points out the key conflict of this settlement : we're trading off increased access to works that might otherwise be difficult to find, but at a potential cost in lost...
DigitalKoans (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
US District Court Judge Denny Chin has granted preliminary approval of the amended Google Book Search Settlement. Here's the order. Read more about it at "Judge Gives Preliminary Approval to Google Deal, Sets Feb. 18 for Final Hearing" and "Judge Sets February Hearing for New Google Books Deal." Related Posts Google Book Search Settlement Amended Google Books Settlement Status Conference...
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