News Source: The Guardian
| 3 months ago
In the first half of 2010, if all goes to plan, the world's dominant search engine, Google, will begin to sell online access to somewhere between 5m and 6m books, which it has taken off library shelves, dug out of secondhand bookshops, borrowed from...
News Source: The independent
| 3 months ago
Google has no right to "restructure copyright" in a deal which could see it monopolise the market by converting millions of copyrighted books for digital sale, Microsoft said. A flurry of arguments supporting and opposing a settlement in which the...
News Source: The Guardian
| 3 months ago
Google's battle to digitise millions of copyrighted books has taken another blow, after rival technology giant Microsoft lodged a brief with an American court that called the proposals "illegitimate"...The case revolves around a deal brokered between...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| 3 months ago
The software company yesterday condemned the proposed settlement as "an unprecedented misuse of the judicial system".
News Source: New Zealand Herald
| 3 months ago
Microsoft, Yahoo and a prominent antitrust lawyer have urged a federal judge to block a class-action settlement that would give Google the digital rights to a vast library of books. As that coalition warned of a literary cartel that would lead to...
News Source: Miami Herald
| 3 months ago
Amazon.com makes its case against Google book deal Online bookseller Amazon.com Inc. Internet search leader Google Inc. will be able to gouge consumers and stifle competition if it wins court approval to add millions more titles to its already vast...