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• Google kisses and makes up with book publishers

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 794
  Filed under: Company News , Google Google ( GOOG ), book authors and publishers had until midnight to provide a federal court with a plan to settle differences on how the search engine digitizes and charges for books. The group waited until the last minute to get its proposed settlement to the courthouse. The ...
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• Google Books restrictions grow

  
  TECH.BLORGE.com — Authority: 575
  The noose continues to tighten around Google Book Search as legal actions from all quarters restrict the source material that can be digitized and the uses that Google can make of them. Google Book Search is a service from Google [...]
  2 hours ago

• Google Books has a new, less-infringing, publisher agreement

  
  ShortFormBlog — Authority: 580
  Cost of the deal $125 million Big changes madeAuthor rightsOrphan booksPricing structure  Countries in the dealU.S.CanadaU.K.Australia SOURCE zoneIdentifier="1F5C103D8974818E"; var varCheckURL = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://" : "http://"); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript ...
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• Google Books settlement: Amendments holds access to many books

  
  D' Technology Weblog — Authority: 527
  Google submitted an revised version of "Google Books settlement agreement" to court. “The amended changes address many of concerns weve heard (particularly in limiting its international scope), while at same time preserving core benefits of original agreement: opening access to millions of books while providing ...
  4 hours ago

• Google’s digital book plans riding on legal settlement - The Boston Globe

  
  Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check — Authority: 444
  See the full article for more details on the proposed settlement Google, the Internet’s search leader, is hoping to keep the deal alive with a series of new provisions. Among other things, the modified agreement provides more flexibility to offer discounts on electronics books and promises to make it ...
  5 hours ago

• Google Agreed to Revised Settlement Covering Google Books on Friday

  
  UwidoNews - Submitted news — Authority: 465
  Google and a number of agencies representing book publishers agreed to a revised settlement covering Google Books
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• Digital Book Deal

  
  Wir sprechen Online. — Authority: 142
  The new terms of the digital book deal pave the way for other companies to licence from Google ; http://j.mp/1a1tnz
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• Project Gutenberg #7

  
  Summa Minutiae — Authority: 129
  The Home Book of Verse, edited by Burton Egbert Stevenson Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4 Also by Mr Stevenson: Poems of American History at Google.
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• Creepy Eric Schmidt says "dont be creepy"

  
  Music Technology Policy — Authority: 118
  Readers of MTP will understand why this headline caught my eye today: " Google Trying Not To Cross the Creepy Line " Well...its a little late for that. Really, truly, cataclysmically bad advice will hang that "creepy" sign around you and its very hard to get it off.
  4 days ago

• Google Gets Till Friday for Digital Library Settlement

  
  Epicenter — Authority: 749
  Google and a coalition of authors and publishers now have until Friday to submit a new plan on how to drain the swamp of copyright law to let Google build the digital library of the future. A federal court judge granted the extension for the Google Books settlement Monday after the parties told the court a new ...
  4 days ago

• Revised Google Books Settlement Gets Extension Til Friday

  
  AppScout — Authority: 649
  The Authors Guild and Google have delayed the submission of a revised settlement regarding Google Books until Friday, an attorney for the Guild told a New York district judge Monday."I write to advise the court that [the Guild] expect to file their motion seeking preliminary approval of the amended settlement by no ...
  4 days ago

• Google Blows Book Search Deal Deadline

  
  Digital Daily — Authority: 685
  Google’s five-year-old copyright feud with the publishing industry will drag on a few days more now that the deadline for submitting a revised settlement proposal has been pushed ahead once again. Google (GOOG) and attorneys representing the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) were ...
  4 days ago

• (Another) New Google Books Deadline Set

  
  WebProNews Feed — Authority: 699
  It could be said that the Google Books case is becoming the new Microsoft-Yahoo deal, having created all sorts of controversy and dragged on and on.  And on some more, as it turns out, since the involved parties are pushing a target date back again. A revised proposal concerning how Google and its critics could ...
  4 days ago

• Closing chapter of Google Books saga near

  
  Recording — Authority: 469
  Mondays deadline to submit a revised settlement could mark the beginning of the end for the Google Books legal process, after a year of rancorous debate.
  4 days ago

• GBS: A Legislative Solution?

  
  LibraryLaw Blog — Authority: 561
  (posted by Peter Hirtle) Many of the critics of the proposed Google Book Settlement (GBS) have pointed out that it attempts to use the class action mechanism to effect what should be a legislative prerogative. James Grimmelmann’s amicus brief on behalf of the Institute for Information Law and Policy, for ...
  6 days ago

• The future of news is entrepreneurial

  
  RickMcCharles.com — Authority: 132
  There’s a brilliant guy named Jeff Jarvis with a blog called Buzz Machine . Rockin’ reads it religiously. I find it bloody dense. Wordy . Few graphics or photos. A video once-in-a-while if you’re lucky. But one dense Buzz Machine post is dead on, something explained better than I’ve heard before: ...
  6 days ago

• Notes from September’s CopyNight for Washingon, DC

  
  The Command Line — Authority: 132
  The topic for September’s CopyNight here in DC was the Google Book settlement. We had a decent turn out, not as large as the couple of Summer gatherings but respectable. The discussion was excellent, covering many aspects of this story that hadn’t occurred to me, even as closely as I have been following it for my ...
  6 days ago

• Google Books Gets A Little More Organized

  
  WebProNews Feed — Authority: 699
  Big libraries are neat - the idea of having so much information (and entertainment) available in one place is just inherently attractive.  The trouble is, big libraries can also be overwhelming, and so Google Books has tried to make its own virtual library a little more accessible by creating a list of available ...
  1 week ago

• Judge In Google Book Settlement Case Says Photographers Are Not Authors

  
  TechCrunch — Authority: 898
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Options for Printing Books

  
  Swiss Army Librarian — Authority: 119
  It’s funny how things happen in threes*: A couple weeks ago, I was talking to a colleague about Google Books, and I made a comment like, “since Google is scanning all these old books, if they allow some kind of print-to-bind option, it would mean that no book would ever be out-of-print again.” The idea ...
  1 week ago

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