5 posts and columns on Google Books Settlement

DOJ on Google Book Settlement: Get Me Another Rewrite

in News on February 5, 2010 at 5:05 am PT

The Department of Justice still isn’t sold on the Google Books settlement agreement. In a brief filed late Thursday, the DOJ said that significant legal problems remain despite the considerable changes Google, publishers and authors have made to it.
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Amazon and Others Slam Revised Google Books Deal

in News on January 28, 2010 at 1:00 am PT

Critics who blasted the first Google Books settlement have begun weighing in with objections to the modified agreement, which Google and authors sealed late last year to allay concerns that the first pact would give Google a monopoly in digital books.

Google’s Mission: To Digitize the World’s Books and Make Them Universally Monetizable by Google

in News on November 16, 2009 at 12:40 pm PT

Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers have submitted a new version of their digital book settlement, and while it makes concessions to the Department of Justice and others who have raised concerns about how it may violate antitrust laws, the new proposal doesn’t seem to have appeased all of its opponents.
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Google Blows Book Search Deal Deadline

in News on November 9, 2009 at 2:36 pm PT

Google’s five-year-old copyright feud with the publishing industry will drag on a few days more now that the deadline for submitting a revised settlement proposal has been pushed back once again. Google and attorneys representing the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers were supposed to file the document today, but instead asked the judge overseeing the matter to give them until the end of the week.

Google Books Settlement Evidently in Need of Further Editing

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.
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