In seemingly separate developments, the proposed Google Book Search settlement had two setbacks yesterday. Judge Denny Chin of Federal District Court in New York delayed the opt-out and opposition-brief filing deadline four months from May 5 until September 5, 2009 on the logic that authors and opposition groups needed more time to understand the proposed [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Google Settlement'
Google Book Settlement Delayed; DOJ Opens Anti-Trust Inquiry
April 29th, 2009 · No Comments
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WSJ: Google Books Settlement a "Ripoff"
April 2nd, 2009 · No Comments
See this editorial published in the Wall Street Journal, Google’s Book Settlement is a Ripoff for Authors by Lynn Chu of Writers Representatives, an literary agent who, according to their site, “represents authors of trade books in the sale or licensing of rights to appropriate publishers (and other copyright licensees) on the best possible terms [...]
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Dan Clancy of Google Book Search To Appear at Mark Logic User Conference
March 31st, 2009 · No Comments
I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be conducting a 30-minute live interview with Dan Clancy, engineering director for Google Book Search, at the Mark Logic User Conference in San Francisco on May 12-14, 2009. Dan has been working on Google Book Search for approximately four years, worked directly on the Google Book Search class action [...]
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Tweetstream from Columbia Law Conference on Google Books
March 13th, 2009 · No Comments
Columbia Law School is hosting a conference today, The Google Books Settlement: What Will it Mean for the Long Term, which is generating a healthy Tweetstream (also known as a Twitterstream) that you may find of interest. The conference hashtag is #gbslaw, and you can find the Tweetstream here. Mark Logic’s own Chris Welch, a [...]
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Top Resources for Understanding The Google Book Settlement
March 10th, 2009 · 2 Comments
We’ve had major interest in our upcoming webinar on the Google Book Settlement and unprecedented downloads of the related white paper, Google’s Settlement with the Publishing Industry: Opportunites and Strategies for Publishers, written by Bill Rosenblatt of Giant Steps Media and available for download without giving contact details here. Given all the interest, I thought [...]
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