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• Google Book Settlement — Copyright Law Expert Lois Wasoff Reviews the Amended Settlement

  
  Beyond the Job — Authority: 131
  On November 13th, the parties in the Google Book Search Copyright Class Action filed a revised settlement proposal, responding to concerns voiced by authors, publishers and the U.S. Department of Justice. Copyright Clearance Center has invited renowned intellectual property attorney Lois Wasoff to return for an ...
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• Face It, Sarkozy. Digitization Has Come, and Google Will Lead

  
  The Next Web — Authority: 744
  Google has been digitizing books for about five years now, and it’s been a slightly bumpy road. On November 19, the Court granted them preliminary approval of their settlement which covers quite a bit, from rights of copyright owners to the handling of the intellectual material. It all seems win-win. But, some ...
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• Want to read Google books on a Kindle? Try new conversion service

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Kindle owners can download books in ePub from Google Books and have the files converted to the K machine’s format, through the experimental  RetroRead service. Given all the hundreds of thousands of classics and other books on Google, this sounds more than a little useful. Sponsor is BLTC Press , a ...
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• Books of The Times: Still Counting the Ways to Infiltrate Daily Lives

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Ken Auletta
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• German Cabinet approves digitization plan

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  The Germans are taking on Google, and good for them. The German Cabinet agreed Wednesday to a plan that would fund the digitization of books, pictures, sculptures, notes, music and films and make them available on the Internet. Culture Minister Bernd Neumann called the project a “quantum leap into the world of ...
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• 2009: E-books’ ‘interesting times’

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  In a recent column, David Pogue looked back at some technological advances that first showed up (or heated up) this year and that have implications for the future. A couple of them—app stores, Netbooks—have minor e-book implications, but Pogue closes with a look at e-books themselves. The e-book marketplace, ...
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• Bookmarks: Sarah Palin’s book-tour blunder, Rick Moody’s Twitter fiasco, and Sky Gilbert goes back in the closet

  
  Quill & Quire — Authority: 429
  Sundry links from around the Web: Sarah Palin’s publicist admits it was a mistake to try barring foreign journalists from a book-signing event Poet, playwright, and activist Sky Gilbert comes out as “ no longer gay “ Rick Moody’s Tweeted short story is deemed an utter failure Amazon’s bid to scrap ...
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• Academe and the Google Book Settlement

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  According to an article in eSchool News , academics have a “wait and see” attitude towards the Google Book Settlement. They feel that Google Book Search won’t be of much use to undergraduate studies, especially during the first two years of college. The corpus of book will be primarily of use to researchers. ...
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• Arrêtez Google!: EU Reportedly Developing Joint Alternative To Book Project

  
  WebGuild — Authority: 556
  According to Reuters, French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand said the European Union intends to develop a plan to offer a public and pan-European alternative to Google’s book scanning project. The French, among others, filed formal objections and opposition to the Google Book Search settlement with the ...
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• ‘Googled: The End of the World As We Know It’: New book skewers search giant

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  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, ...
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• Harvard’s Darnton is right to fret over the Google threat to libraries—but why no recognition of Project Gutenberg?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  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 ...
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• Googles Earth

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  Sergey Brin, left, and Larry Page at Google Inc. headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. in Sept. 2008
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• My e-book Thanksgiving list

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  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 weeks ago

• Google collection: A start toward TeleRead?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  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 ...
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• Google classics on an upgraded Kindle 2

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  I’ve started out Thanksgiving Day with a little sacrilege—by Amazon standards, anyway. The left image shows a page from Google ’s PDF of The Jungle ,  the Upton Sinclair novel exposing the Chicago meatpackers. My little experiment was for more than the sake of curiosity. Google has digitized zillions of ...
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• Google Korea to “Koreanize” its Home Page

  
  Waiguoren's Weblog — Authority: 128
  Posted on koreainformationsociety The Korea Times yesterday notes that Google Korea plans to “Koreanize” its home page!   The article notes that Naver has a 66 percent share of the search market and Daum is in second place with 20 percent.  Meanwhile, Google has only 2.2 percent of the Korean search market. ...
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• Should Google Books worry publishers?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Ron Miller at Fierce Content Management has obtained a review unit of Astak’s EZReader Pocket Pro (the same one I’ve been reviewing in recent weeks) and used it to examine Google’s e-book offerings . It is not clear from the article whether he downloaded the PDF or EPUB versions of the books he chose to read. ...
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• Judge grants preliminary approval of Google Book Settlement

  
  The CITE — Authority: 128
  Earlier this month, Google, the Authors Guild, and the Association of American Publishers submitted a revised version of the Google Book Settlement. The new draft is intended to resolve the U.S. Justice Department’s concerns that the settlement would violate copyright law and give Google an unfair advantage. ...
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• Google Book Settlement Gets Preliminary Approval; Hearing in 2010

  
  Digital Media Wire - connecting people & knowledge — Authority: 584
  New York - The judge overseeing the settlement agreement between Google (NASD: GOOG) and authors andpublishers over the direction of its massive book-scanning project has pushed ahearing on a revised settlement back to Feb. 18, while at the same time grantedpreliminary approval to the new deal. "The preliminary ...
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• Maybe Google Should Give Up The Google Book Search Ghost

  
  Google Watch — Authority: 128
  Google Book Search is more than a massive undertaking to organize the worlds books online and make them available to users. Its become a epic struggle aficionados of Star Wars can appreciate. From a legal front, this quest stretches back five years, which for many of us who have watched not only Google but the rest ...
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