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- Google, Intel, Others Face Resurgence in Antitrust Interest, Actions
- No one likes to be a target of government investigation. But given the Obama administration's stated interests, and the modus operandi of the high tech industry, there could be a clash that will have corporations and executives hiring lawyers for antitrust defense. The Department of Justice yesterday...
- Blog posts 2009-05-12
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- The Google Book Case Settlement is Dead
- The proposed settlement of the class-action lawsuit against Google Book Search is officially dead tonight. Just days after the antitrust division of the Department of Justice DoJ intervened in the case to urge U.S. Judge Denny Chin to reject the settlement, Google and the plaintiffs (the Author's Guild and the...
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- Germany Challenges Google Book Settlement
- Germany has joined the growing chorus of people, groups, and even nations that are against the proposed settlement of a lawsuit over Google's scanning of copyrighted books and making them available online. The Wall Street Journal reports that the German government filed its opposition on Monday. The full filing appears...
- News items 2009-09-01
- On Book Settlement, Google Is Still Trying To Hold The Line
- Earlier today, as Google co-founder Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt were holding forth before a dozen or so reporters in their New York City offices, a judge downtown was postponing a hearing on the Google Book settlement until November 9 to give Google and the...
- News items 2009-10-08
- Sniping Over Google Books Settlement Intensifies
- Larry Dignan ZDNet submits: Google GOOG details its privacy safeguards behind its book settlement. The Open Book Alliances says “trust us” isn’t a good privacy policy. Meanwhile, supporters of the Google Book Settlement have knocked Amazon’s AMZN complaints about the deal. Simply put, the fur is flying....
- External links 2009-09-04
- Amazon, Microsoft, and Yahoo Join Coalition Against Google Book Settlement
- Can the collective weight of Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) help scuttle Google’s book settlement? The three companies are banding together to join an alliance that is urging the Justice Department—which has launched a formal inquiry into the deal—to oppose it under the grounds...
- External links 2009-08-20
- Google Book Settlement Extended for Further Review?
- Seth Gilbert submits: The settlement of a long standing lawsuit over Google’s GOOG practices of scanning and displaying books at Google Book Search was announced in October and expected to be finalized between May and June. Two weeks ago, in late April, the judge overseeing the...
- External links 2009-05-10
- The Google Book Search Case -- for Dummies*
- * That would include me. Imagine this â€" a free global virtual library containing almost every book published over the past century and beyond in many languages and formats â€"all reproduced in digital form, courtesy of Google. These e-books will be searchable,...
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- Google Book Search? Try Google Library
- Is Google ready--or willing--to become a library?Librarians, academics, and privacy advocates will gather Friday on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley to discuss the implications of Google's proposed settlement with publishers that, if implemented, will allow it to bring millions of books online.At issue are concerns over...
- News items 2009-08-27
- Open Book Alliance With Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo Forms to Fight Google Book Search
- Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo joined the Internet Archive in launching the Open Book Alliance to challenge Google's Book Search settlement with publishers and authors. Google, which scoffed at Microsoft's participation in the alliance because the company closed its own book search service last year, remains unfazed by the challenge. A...
- News items 2009-08-26
- Google Rises to Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon Google Book Search Challenge
- Google Rises to Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon Google Book Search Challenge( Page 1 of 2 )Google is now facing threats to its Google Book Search deal from Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon and a host of other concerns who have joined the Open Book Alliance. Led by the Internet Guild and antitrust lawyer...
- News items 2009-08-22
- Pivot Point in Debate Over Google Book Scans
- The contentious debate over the proposed settlement of a class-action suit between Google Books and some authors may have reached an intellectual turning point. A rigorous, thoughtful article about the case by Tim Barton from the Oxford University Press published in the Chronicle of Higher Education yesterday provides a potential...
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
- U.C. Professors Air Google Book Search Settlement Concerns
- 18 faculty members for the University of California say they are concerned about the Google Book Search settlement. Though the professors aren't opposing the deal, they are seeking changes that will prevent price-gouging, as well as mechanisms to let academic authors of orphan books license their books to the public...
- News items 2009-08-17
- Google Books settlement sets geographic, business limits
- A revised Google Books settlement filed late on Friday applies only to works from English-speaking countries, restricts the ways Google can make money from scanning and digitizing out-of-print books, and requires the registry to seek out copyright holders who do not come forward.The amended settlement comes after Judge Denny Chin...
- News items 2009-11-13
- Google Books settlement still has antitrust problems, critics say
- The revised Google Books settlement agreement may quiet international opponents but it still gives Google a monopoly on commercializing out-of-print books where the copyrights are unclaimed and fails to protect consumer privacy, opponents said on Monday.Google is scanning and digitizing books in libraries and publishers' catalogs so people can view...
- News items 2009-11-16
- Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin Fires Back at Google Book Search Critics
- Google Co-founder Sergey Brin Fires Back at Google Book Search Critics( Page 1 of 2 )Google co-founder Sergey Brin lashed out at critics of Google's Book Search settlement with authors and publishers, arguing that no other company or organization has stepped up to offer to scan the millions of out-of-print...
- News items 2009-10-09
- Microsoft, Yahoo Unite Against Google Book Search
- Amazon also reportedly joined the coalition, which is expected to make an announcement next week. Amazon, however, declined to comment. function showDescimg{ifelementelement.innerHTML = img.alt;}; Last October, Google reached a settlement with the authors and publishers who brought a lawsuit against Google for scanning books for its search index without permission....
- News items 2009-08-21
- Writers, Sign Up for your Check from Google Books!
- Okay, I admit that I went for it. Whatever published authors may think about Google's ambitious plan to digitize more or less every book ever published, the company's recent settlement of a class-action lawsuit with publishers and authors creates a potential new revenue stream, albeit a small...
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- Post-Revision, Justice, Competitors Still Concerned Over Google Books
- The revised Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Book settlement scales back the countries the agreement covers and promises new protections for potential rights-holders and authors Read in detail what those changes entail here. That, however, doesn’t seem to have placated two key interest groups:—Justice Department: The DOJ was consulted repeatedly in...
- External links 2009-11-16
- DoJ Intervenes Against Google Book Search
- The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ tonight has informed the federal judge overseeing a proposed class-action settlement of the Google Book Search case that it officially opposes the settlement, as currently structured, but that since the parties are continuing to negotiate, it reserves the right to revise its legal opinion...
- Blog posts 2009-09-18
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