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Google To Seek Dismissal of the Book Scanning Case

07 Dec

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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Posted in Books, Digital Collections, Litigation in the News

 

Google Books Case Gearing Up For Trial As Settlement Talks Still Going On

16 Sep

There are some developments in the Google Book Settlement talks. Search Engine Land is reporting from cited sources that Judge Chin is setting up pretrial steps with the idea that the case could go to trial sometime in mid-2012. However,…

 
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Posted in Books, Current Affairs, Digital Collections

 

University of Michigan To Allow Campus Access To Digital Oprhan Works

29 Jun

What to do about orphan books and digital access? One of the several reasons that the Amended Settlement Agreement negotiated by Google and the publisher and author associations was not approved had to do with these books. Judge Chin said…

 
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Posted in Digital Collections, Education Technology

 

Woody Allen settles lawsuit

02 Jun

 
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Posted in U.S. Courts

 

What Next for Google Books?

01 Jun

From the announcement: Now that the court has rejected the Google Books settlement, what will happen next? This conversation traces the history of Google’s audacious plan to scan the world’s books and the controversial settlement in the lawsuit filed against…

 
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Posted in Electronic Resource, Litigation in the News