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‘Googled: The End of the World As We Know It’: New book skewers search giant
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Googled: The end of the World As We Know It —that’s a new, not-so-flattering book about the search giant, complete with anti-Google comments by some media barons. Check out Nicholson Baker’s NYT review . I haven’t read Googled yet, but get the sense that Baker is much fairer than Googled ’s author, ...1 day ago -
Harvard’s Darnton is right to fret over the Google threat to libraries—but why no recognition of Project Gutenberg?
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Historian Robert Darnton , the director of the Harvard University Library and author of The Case for Books , a valuable work in many ways, is right to worry about Google wreaking havoc on libraries. But here’s one mystery about The Case . While delving into the evolution of books, Prof. Darnton devotes not ...1 day ago -
Lawyer predicts another round of negotiations for Google Settlement Agreement
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Litigation Daily , a lawyer’s publication, interviewed Gary Redback, one of the lawyers for the Open Book Alliance about the second round of the settlement. According to him we are probably going to see another round of talks because the revised agreement doesn’t take into account the concerns of the Department ...1 day ago -
My e-book Thanksgiving list
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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! A number of other sites are doing Thanksgiving lists ( Ars Technica , Wired , another Wired , and Wired again on things not to be thankful for ), and I thought I would assay one of my own. Of course, we all know that we have a lot more to be thankful for than just ...2 days ago -
Google collection: A start toward TeleRead?
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Since the early 1990s, I’ve been pushing for a well-stocked national digital library system . The Obama White House so far has ignored the TeleRead idea as recently presented in the Huffington Post . But could we be getting there anyway? Via the Reading 2.0 list, here’s an except from Harvard Professor Robert ...2 days ago -
Federation of European Publishers objects to Google Book Settlement
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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, ...5 days ago -
Preliminary approval for the Google Book Settlement granted
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The court has given preliminary approval and the following dates are of interest: December 14: supplemental notices about the amended agreement to be sent January 28: objections to amended agreement be filed with the court January 28: opt in date for those members of the class who had previously opted out February ...1 week ago -
Google Settlement Given Courts Preliminary Approval
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Judge Denny Chin has granted the US District Court’s preliminary approval of the revised Google Settlement. The next stage will be a final hearing on 18th February 2010, which will examine the terms of the agreement and make a ruling on its full approval. The opt-out/opt-in and final objections deadline will be 28th ...1 week ago -
Judge Preliminarily Approves Revised Google Book Settlement
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A federal judge today preliminarily approved a revised Google Book Settlement which removes most European authors from the deal. But the the Open Book Alliance still objects to the proposed settlement saying it gives Google a virtual monopoly on digital books. In an order Thursday, U.S. District Judge Denny Chin ...1 week ago -
Joe Allstons Literary Diary
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Our literary insider Joe Allston gets the gossip on the Google Book Settlement Andrew Motions appointment as a Booker judge and beloved agent William Miller1 week ago -
Publishing Point meeting with Michael Healy, Executive Director, Book Rights Registry
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Here are the notes that I’m taking during the lecture. No particular order or format. Healy’s slides will be made available at Publishing Point. Since most of what he said has already been reported I only note those things that captured my interest: Lawsuit filed in October, 2005. Google believed that ...1 week ago -
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Revised Google Book Settlement Attempts to Address U.S. Competition Concerns This posting was written by Jeffrey May, Editor of CCH Trade Regulation Reporter. After consulting with the U.S. Department of Justice, lawyers representing the parties in a copyright dispute brought by authors and publishers against ...1 week ago -
British Booksellers Association still has problems with Google Settlement
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Even after the revision, which they praise, the BA still has some difficulties. They had hoped that the amendment would exclude all UK and European works, but this is not the cases as the agreement includes works published before January 5 of this year. They also do not like the continuance of the opt-out mechanism ...1 week ago -
Google backs out of NewsHour Google Books debate
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Per Michael Arrington at TechCrunch , Google backed out of a debate on Google Books that was supposed to air on Jim Lehrer’s NewsHour show yesterday. The stated reason was that the Open Content Alliance changed their representative at the last minute from a professor to a lawyer. Google did not want to put an ...1 week ago -
Some Canadian writers of out of the Google Settlement
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The Writers’ Union of Canada had decided not to endorse the amended settlement, but the Association of Canadian Publishers and the Canadian Publishers’ Council have not taken a position yet. The Europeans have been, on the whole, non-committal so far, except the German Boersenverein (booksellers’ association) ...1 week ago -
Google Books battles: Copyright, not Google, is the real villain, says Stanford fellow
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“So far, Google has scanned 10 million books . Two million are old enough to be free of copyright, and another 2 million are still in print (Google has made separate agreements with the publishers of those books). The other 6 million are in copyright but out of print, many of them orphans. Thanks to the madness of ...1 week ago -
Google Submits Second Proposal for Library of the Future
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Google and a coalition of authors and publishers are hoping a second draft of a legal settlement will clear the way through a thicket of copyright laws to let Google to build the library of the future. The second version, filed close to midnight Friday night in federal court, needs to placate the Justice Department ...1 week ago -
Google Book Settlement: The Thing That Would Not Die
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Thanks to all the people who have worked so hard on this baffling and irritating situation. Some good results have come of your diligence. One big one is that prior to these changes, Google had it that any book not currently available new in the US was considered not in print, so anything in any other country was up ...1 week ago -
Google Book Settlement Revised – some say yes, some say no
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The revised settlement is still dividing the industry. The Open Book Alliance is still dead set against it saying that it is a “set-piece designed to serve the private commercial interests of Google and its partners.” The Alliance is made up of Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon, as well as librarians, legal scholars, ...1 week ago -
Revised Google Settlement Filed At Eleventh Hour
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At one point on Friday it did not look like we were going to have a revised Google Settlement. Delays of several hours and attorney negotiations finally led to a revised settlement being lodged late Friday evening with Judge Denny Chin presiding over the case in the US District Court. The revised settlement, according ...2 weeks ago
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