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Reading the situation
Reading :: United Kingdom | 6 days ago
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The woman on the right is using the Sony Reader. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images) The sound and fury over the latest proposed settlement between Google and its book publishing partners and authors is the sound of history being made. The revised deal was produced...
Tags: Microsoft and Yahoo, Google Books, Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, U.S. Department of Justice, European Community, Sony Canada, United Kingdom, Reading, World Wide Web, Publicly traded companies, Google Book Search, Criticism of Google, Google, Digital libraries, Human-computer interaction, Hypertext, Entertainment Culture, Technology Internet
New Google Books settlement restricts scale of project
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility This means that 95 percent of books published outside of those English-speaking countries would be excluded from the Google Books settlement. European publishers and governments had criticised the first settlement for what they saw as its infringement...
Tags: Google Inc., Google Books, digitize books, books settlement, University of Michigan, books deal, books published, legal settlement, San Francisco, Library 2.0, Copyright, United States copyright law, Authors Guild, Criticism of Google, Library and information science, Google, Google Book Search, Technology Internet, Publishing, Orphan works, Book Rights Registry, Entertainment Culture, Law Crime, Hypertext, Mobile Payment, World Wide Web, Human-computer interaction, Competition law, United States antitrust law, Google Book Search Settlement Agreement, Digital library
Google's digitization of books
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 14 days ago
Credibility Google began its digitizing project in 2005, going to several major university libraries and digitizing every book it found there. The company said its aim is to increase the amount of knowledge available online. But the Authors Guild of America accused...
Tags: Authors Guild of America, Google Inc., books deal, google books
Google admits it scanned books under Chinese copyright protection
Beijing :: China | 21 days ago
Credibility The US company emphasised the Chinese books they scanned were from US libraries and some of them were available for public use...Chinese writers had been scanned by Google, with authors neither informed nor paid. Zhang said he already discussed a timetable...
Tags: Zhang Taolin, Google Books
Authors: Google violating copyrights
Shanghai :: China | about 1 month ago
Credibility Chinese writers have been scanned by Google and included in its digital library, which is only open to netizens within the US borders. This was done without informing or paying most of the writers. "So far, no writer we reached said he or she has...
Tags: Google, violating copyrighted, google books
Google to launch new book platform
Frankfurt :: Germany | about 1 month ago
Credibility EDT Last updated on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009 8:02AM EDT G oogle Inc. Google Editions, which will let readers buy books and read them anywhere on gadgets ranging from cellphones to possibly e-book devices. It's the first foray into charging for books for...
Tags: google, Google Editions, Google Books, Google Inc., Economist.com Google, electronic books, online store, launch google, search giant, online bookstore
Merkel joins EU chorus against Google Books
Brussels :: Belgium | about 1 month ago
Credibility German Chancellor Angela Merkel has added her voice to a small but growing number of people who are increasingly alarmed about internet search giant Google's scheme to digitise millions of books from the globe's leading libraries. No curmudgeonly luddite,...
Judge sets deadline for amended Google book deal
Manhattan :: KS :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility A federal judge set a Nov. 9 deadline Wednesday for submitting a revised agreement in the battle over Google Inc.'s effort to get digital rights to millions of out-of-print books...District Judge Denny Chin set the deadline after a lawyer for authors...
Tags: Google Inc., Google Book Deal, Judge Denny Chin, judge set, google books, federal judge, district judge, set nov, print books, digital rights
Google Working to Revise Digital Books Settlement
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility Google and its settlement partners the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers argued that the agreement would not harm competition, and said they were confident that it would be approved in its current form by a federal court. But...
Tags: google books, U.S. Department of Justice, Google Inc., Justice Department, Authors Guild Inc, The Authors Guild, Association of American Publishers, books deal, digitized library, Washington
Justice Critical of Google Deal
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago
Credibility The department said the court should not accept the agreement unless Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers make changes to address the government's concerns. The Justice Department statement, posted late Friday night, acknowledged...
Tags: THE US Justice Department, Google Inc., Justice Department Urges Changes, google books, books deal, reject google, New York, class action, U.S. Balks, department urged, Washington
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