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• Google Books Settlement Case Given Eleventh Hour Extension Until Friday

  
  POD, Self Publishing and Independent Publishing — Authority: 470
  Judge Chin has today granted a short extension in the Google Settlement case which will allow The Authors Guild and Google to finalize a new agreement by this Friday, November, 13th. No substantive reason was given by the court to allow the extension until the end of this week, but lawyers for Google did argue that ...
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• Quick Note: Google Book Settlement news – extension requested

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  The news is that there is no news. The parties have asked for an extension till Friday, November 13 to present the revised settlement agreement. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news.
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• Is Anything Ever Out of Print? Or Google and The Monkey’s Paw

  
  madisonian.net — Authority: 497
  As the Google Book Deal approaches its next phase, I am wondering does anything ever go out of print? Pam Samuelson and others have noted the vague nature of the deal. I have poked at some drafting issues at the Public Index. The out of print problem seems like a key issue about why this deal should not proceed. (I am ...
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• Parties Seek More Time to Craft Google Books Deal

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  The parties to the proposed legal settlement over Googles plan to digitize the worlds books have asked the judge for more time to craft a deal.
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• Parties Seek More Time to Craft Google Books Deal

  
  Bits — Authority: 783
  From our colleagues at Media Decoder:The parties to the Google book settlement, which would legalize the creation of a vast library of digital books, have asked the judge overseeing a revision of the agreement for an extension to this Friday, Nov. 13.At a hearing in October, Google and its partners at the Authors ...
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• Survival with the fittest: the story of a Google library partner

  
  Panlibus — Authority: 460
  I hadn’t previously come across any of Google’s library partners, so it was great to listen to the experiences of Manuela Palafox from the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain at the Eurolis seminar Doom or bloom: reinventing the library in the digital age . Complutense originally signed its digitisation ...
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• Europeana: Think culture

  
  Panlibus — Authority: 460
  Aiming high is rarely the wrong thing to do, in my opinion, and Jonathan Purday’s presentation, at the Eurolis Seminar Doom or Boom of Europeana , a digital library offering a single, direct and multilingual interface to cross-domain European cultural artefacts certainly wasn’t short of lofty aims. Europeana ...
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• Quick Note: Today is Google Book Settlement day

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  Today is the day the revised settlement is going to be proposed to the Court in New York. We’ll keep our eyes open and let you know when some news emerges. The speculation is that there won’t be many major changes, except that foreign publishers may get an opt-in instead of an opt-out. Digg us. Slashdot us. ...
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• What to expect on Monday (Google Book)

  
  Concurring Opinions — Authority: 591
  The now defunct version of the Google Book Class Action Settlement is a complicated document consisting of 141 pages, 160 definitions, 17 separate articles and 116 separate clauses, not including the substantial provisions contained within the 15 attachments where several important features of the deal were buried. ...
  2 days ago

• Quick Note: Google Book Settlement Status Conference Report

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  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. ...
  4 days ago

• Fear of a Google Planet

  
  Concurring Opinions — Authority: 591
  Should we fear Google? This question, unthinkable ten, maybe even five, years ago, seems to dominate internet policy discussion today. AT&T is afraid of Google Voice. Apple might be afraid of the Google Phone. Microsoft is afraid that Google Apps will make its Office suit redundant. These fears are justified, but ...
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• Publishing Point has video interview with Michael Healy

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  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, ...
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• Google Books Settlement: Make Haste At Your Peril - Objectors

  
  POD, Self Publishing and Independent Publishing — Authority: 470
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Chinese Authors Oppose Google Digitzation Plan

  
  Writerswrite.com's Writer's Blog — Authority: 462
  A group of Chinese authors are angry and accusing Google of digitizing their books without permission or payment. The authors right group says that Google has violated their copyrights, which Google denies. Google says it has complied with international law. The China Written Works Copyright Society (CWWCS) ...
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• Chinese copyright society opposes Google

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  According the The Bookseller the China Written Works Copyright Society is urging writers to oppose the Google book settlement. You can find their website, in Chinese, here . The Society has said that it would fight for the authors with legal action if necessary. According to the Society, 18,000 books from 570 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Another View of the Google Book Settlement

  
  Out of the Jungle — Authority: 492
  By now, reams have been written about the proposed Google Book Settlement . One of the most readable and lucid commentaries , especially on the subject of orphan works (works still in copyright whose copyright owner cannot be determined or located), was published in the New York Times Book Review on October 4. ...
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• EU books may be removed from Google book settlement

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  According to The Bookseller , at the Frankfurt Book Fair one of the settlement’s chief architects said that the books may be removed. The Federation of European Publishers is saying that neither the US Authors Guild nor the Association of American Publishers has the authority to negotiate on behalf of their ...
  3 weeks ago

• Google Book Settlement, Copyrights, and More

  
  The Hung Juror — Authority: 123
  A comment posted below expresses skepticism about my assertion that under the Google Book Settlement authors of out-of-print books are NOT entitled to 100% of the 63% of revenues Google realizes from sales of the book’s scans. I have participated in two conference calls with the Authors Guild (the ...
  3 weeks ago

• European Commission to do own copyright investigation; establish own system

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  The European Commission has adopted a Communication on Copyright in the Knowledge Economy and according to Viviane Reding, the Commissioner in charge of information society and the media will “… seize this opportunity to take the lead and ensure that books digitization takes place on the basis of European ...
  4 weeks ago

• Academic Books, Non-Academic Books, BitTorrent, and Google’s Brand Power

  
  Concurring Opinions — Authority: 591
  D is for Digital is over now. I urge anyone interested in the Google Book Deal (aka the Google Book Search) to check out the schedule page and the webcast links (the stream links are at the top of the Friday and Saturday schedules respectively). James Grimmelmann put together a conference that aired out pro and con ...
  4 weeks ago

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