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…
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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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Posted in Books, Current Affairs, Digital Collections
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…
More HathiTrust Lawsuit News
Here’s a bit more on the Authors Guild suit against the HathiTrust. There is short commentary by Irvin Muchnick criticizing the Guild’s action published in BeyondChron, an alternative paper in the San Francisco area. Muchnick, noted for his championship of…
Posted in Current Affairs, Digital Collections, Publishing Industry