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Google Books revised settlement adds limitations
News A revised settlement filed late on Friday over Google's right to scan digital books places additional limits on the company. The settlement allows out-of-print books from only English-speaking countries to be scanned, restricts the ways Google can...
[November 16, 2009, 8:38]
Google Books opposition stacks up on deadline
News Google is trying to get final approval of its settlement with book publishers and authors granting it the right to digitise certain out-of-print books. Microsoft, now finding itself on the same side of the issue as Reback, argued in a brief that...
[September 9, 2009, 9:06]
Google Books: More time needed to revise deal
News Google and groups representing authors and publishers have asked for more time to revise their settlement over the rights to scan digital books. After it was sued in 2005 by The Author's Guild and other groups representing the publishing industry...
[November 10, 2009, 7:48]
Google Books court saga continues
News The Google Books case will continue for at least a few more months, as a judge in New York has set a November deadline for the submission of a new settlement. Google's original settlement, with groups representing publishers and authors over the...
[October 8, 2009, 10:44]
Google Books deal: Amazon calls in the lawyers
News In its filing (click for PDF), Amazon notes that it has also scanned books, but has not taken the controversial step that Google took in scanning out-of-print but copyright-protected books without explicit permission.
[September 3, 2009, 9:24]
Google Books hearing officially delayed
News The judge overseeing Google Books settlement has agreed to the plaintiffs' request for a delay of the final hearing scheduled to approve the settlement, which is being reworked by the parties. However, the settlement, which gives Google sweeping...
[September 25, 2009, 9:33]
Google Books: Parties seek postponement of hearing
News When the US Department of Justice made it clear last Friday that it could not support the settlement as written — which would give Google unique rights to scan out-of-print books still protected by copyright law — it said the parties were in talks...
[September 23, 2009, 8:18]
Google offers compromise over European books
News In a move to assuage European publishers' concerns over book digitisation, Google on Monday said that European books still listed as commercially available will not be included in its online registry of orphaned and out-of-print works — unless...
[September 8, 2009, 8:31]
Antitrust concerns linger in Google Books deal
News The revised Google Books settlement agreement may quiet international opponents, but it still gives Google a monopoly on commercialising out-of-print books where the copyrights are unclaimed and fails to protect consumer privacy, opponents said on...
[November 17, 2009, 17:04]
Open Book Alliance to oppose Google Books deal
News With less than two weeks remaining until a key deadline in the Google Books settlement, Google's opposition is circling the wagons. Google's proposed settlement with book rights holders last October gave it the sole legal authority to scan and...
[August 27, 2009, 11:51]
Coalition to oppose Google Books settlement
News Under the proposed $125m settlement with the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, announced in October 2008, Google would have the right to show content from books online that are still in copyright but that are no longer in...
[August 21, 2009, 12:38]
US state attorneys object to Google Books settlement
News Under the settlement proposed by Google and several author and publisher groups, Google would be allowed to continue digitising out-of-print but copyright-protected books and offer them — subject to rights-holder approval — on Google Book Search.
[September 18, 2009, 10:18]
US launches probe into Google Books settlement
News The US Department of Justice confirmed on Thursday that is has opened a formal investigation into the settlement between Google and book publishers over the digital publishing rights to certain books, citing antitrust concerns.
[July 3, 2009, 9:33]
Google suspends plan to scan the world's books
Talkback According to Google's Print Product Manager, Adam Smith, this process has been halted so "any and all copyright holders can tell us which books they'd prefer that we not scan if we find them in a library".
[August 15, 2005, 17:11]
EC seeking opinion on Google Books project
News Commission officials will meet copyright holders on 7 September to discuss the search giant's $125m (£75m) proposed settlement with US publishers and authors granting Google the right to digitise and publish books that are out of print but still...
[July 21, 2009, 9:34]
Google to digitise books from University of California
Talkback After all, I don't see anybody else paying the vast sums required to scan all these books and then make them searchable, for free, by anybody, anywhere in the World. Yes, nothing more needs to be said after "USA".
[August 10, 2006, 9:39]
Google to digitise books from University of California
Talkback Sure, get in bed with capitalists, then wonder why etc. But then it is the USA. No, nothing more needs to be said after 'USA')
[August 9, 2006, 21:23]
Google offers free PDFs of books
Talkback THis is a good idea, i am a computer user, i have been for years but nothing books a good book in my hand!
[September 1, 2006, 17:38]
Google offers rivals ability to resell e-books
News He announced the offer during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on digital books issues raised by Google Books project. The move involves a major point of contention in Google's project to bring books to the internet and in a proposed settlement...
[September 11, 2009, 8:47]
Google to digitise books from University of California
News Google will be scanning and digitising millions of books from the University of California's more than 100 libraries across its 10 campuses and making those titles fully searchable, Adam M Smith, group product manager on Google Book Search, said...
[August 9, 2006, 10:05]
