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27 posts and columns on Google Books
Judge Says Google Book-Scanning Is Fair Use
A big win for Google comes long after many people forgot about the issue.
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Google Wins a Round in Book-Scanning Suit
A federal appeals court on Monday threw out the approval of a class of authors in a long-running lawsuit against Google Inc. over its efforts to electronically scan millions of books from public and university libraries in order to make them available online.Voices
The New Science of the Birth and Death of Words
Can physicists produce insights about language that have eluded linguists and English professors? That possibility was put to the test this week when a team of physicists published a paper drawing on Google’s massive collection of scanned books.App Makes Readers’ Thoughts an Open Book
Katie looks at Subtext, a free iPad app designed to enable and encourage conversations among readers within digital books themselves.
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Google Copyright Talks Continue With Publishers, Authors
Google Inc. and publisher and author groups are continuing to discuss options to resolve copyright litigation over a proposed digital library of books after a federal judge earlier this year rejected a settlement in the case, lawyers for both sides said Thursday.Microsoft to Google: Quit Whining Ya Big Baby
Microsoft may be quietly chuckling over the European Commission’s decision to look into antitrust complaints against Google, but it’s not going to take credit for it. In a post to the company Web site, Dave Heiner, Microsoft vice president and deputy general counsel, took issue with Google’s suggestion last week that two companies with ties to Microsoft are driving this thing.
DOJ on Google Book Settlement: Get Me Another Rewrite
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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