Google is asking the District Court to dismiss the claims brought against it by the Author’s Guild et al. This comes as settlement talks still appear to be ongoing, though nowhere near any agreement. I don’t know if this is…
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Google To Seek Dismissal of the Book Scanning Case
07
Dec
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Posted in Books, Digital Collections, Litigation in the News
Authors Guild Complains About Amazon’s Kindle Book Lending Program
15
Nov
If the Authors Guild hates libraries it hates electronic libraries even more. We know about the suit against the HathiTrust, which is the outgrowth of litigation against Google for scanning books without permission, assuming permission is necessary. No court has…
Authors File Amended Complaint Against the HathiTrust
12
Oct
Publishers Weekly is reporting that the Authors Guild has filed an amended complaint in its suit against the HathiTrust libraries. The complaint seeks to add additional plaintiffs. These are authors who have been mistakenly listed in the category of orphan…
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Authors Guild Sues HathiTrust Over Orphan Books
14
Sep
Readers of this blog may have come across news stories of the Authors Guild suing various university libraries comprising the HathiTrust for digitizing copyrighted works and their plan to make orphan works available to their user communities. It was merely…
