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Judge Won't Rule on Google Book Pact Thursday

Chad Bray, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 18, 2010 at 9:00 am PT

A federal judge said he won’t rule Thursday on a revised settlement involving Google and publisher and author groups over digital copies of books. At a fairness hearing Thursday, U.S. District Judge Denny Chin in Manhattan said he wants to write an opinion at a later date outlining his views, noting there have been “voluminous materials” submitted in the case.

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Google Book Settlement Hearing Could Be a Marathon

Jessica E. Vascellaro, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 17, 2010 at 4:55 pm PT

After about a year of delays, a federal judge will finally hold a hearing Thursday over the settlement Google struck with authors and publishers that would allow it to distribute millions of books online. The battle lines for and against the settlement have been drawn for months, as objectors and supporters have filed round after round of briefs with the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York.

Google Books Settlement Evidently in Need of Further Editing

John Paczkowski in News on September 23, 2009 at 10:38 am PT

Looks like the Google Books Settlement won’t be hitting the shelves until later this year–at the earliest. Days after the U.S. Justice Department criticized the deal and the forward-looking business arrangements it seeks to create as cause for “significant legal concern,” Google, the Authors Guild, and the Association of American Publishers requested a delay in a judge’s final “fairness hearing” scheduled for Oct. 7 so that they can amend it.