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Information Today April 4, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Post-Tasini Class Action Case Settling for Up to $18 Million The finding by the Supreme Court established that publishers and the information industry had to get approval from authors to electronically publish reports. The amount to be paid to writers under the settlement plan depends on a number of factors. |
Information Today March 9, 2009 Carol Ebbinghouse |
Supreme Court to Review Jurisdiction in Freelance Writers Case `Settlement' Freelancers take publishers to court to get compensation for their articles being downloaded from archives. |
Information Today October 11, 2012 George H. Pike |
Google's Settlement With Publishers Does Not Resolve All Library Project Issues After more than 7 years of litigation, Google and The Association of American Publishers reached a settlement over Google's ongoing Library Project to scan books from public and academic libraries and make the content available over Google. |
Information Today December 19, 2011 George H. Pike |
Class Action Filed in Google Books Case The long- delayed lawsuit over the Google Book project took a significant step toward court action and potentially farther away from a settlement with the filing of a motion for Class Certification by The Authors Guild and several individual authors. |
Information Today March 31, 2011 George H. Pike |
Google Book Settlement Rejected: What's Next? Last week's rejection of the proposed settlement of the lawsuit between Google and a group of authors and publishers has thrown the future of the Google Book database into question. |
Information Today August 14, 2000 Paula J. Hane |
National Writers Union Reaches Agreement with Contentville; Freelance Writers Make Significant Progress in Royalty Compensation NWU reaches agreement with Contentville site on compensation of freelance writers for use of copyrighted works. |
Searcher January 2001 Carol Ebbinghouse |
Final Hours: Tasini Goes to the Supreme Court The United States Supreme Court has announced it will hear the appeal New York Times v. Tasini. In hearing this case, the Supreme Court will decide the rights of freelance authors and perhaps the future of digital content... |
Information Today June 28, 2001 Carol Ebbinghouse |
Tasini Case Final Decision: Authors Win The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on the issue of freelance writers' rights to separate compensation for electronic copies of their work... |
Information Today November 19, 2013 George H. Pike |
Google's Fair Use Defense Prevails in Google Books Lawsuit A federal court in New York gave Google a huge victory that may likely end its 9-year fight with the Authors Guild and individual authors over the Google Books scanning project. |
InternetNews September 25, 2009 |
Judge's Order Keeps Google Books in Limbo New York judge postpones fairness hearing for controversial settlement agreement in response to DoJ objections. |
InternetNews September 10, 2009 |
Lawmakers Probe Google Book Search Google's controversial digital book project saw another wave of public scrutiny this morning, this time in the form of a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the competitive implications of its landmark settlement with authors and publishers. |
Information Today August 27, 2009 Paula J. Hane |
Anti Google Book Settlement Organizations Band Together in Open Book Alliance The countdown to the Oct. 7 court hearing on the Google Book settlement is on. |
Information Today October 30, 2008 |
Google Reaches Settlement Agreement with Publishers and Authors The settlement would expand online access to millions of in-copyright books and other written materials in the U.S. from the collections of a number of major U.S. libraries participating in Google Book Search. |
InternetNews September 21, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Authors Guild Gags on Google Library Authors sue Google in federal court over the Google Library program, charging massive copyright infringement. |
Information Today October 2001 George H. Pike |
Legal Issues - Understanding and Surviving Tasini The litigation over the Tasini ruling indicates that the issues raised by the court are anything but resolved. So how do we in both the database and the library communities survive in the interim? |
Information Today September 24, 2009 |
Google Book Search Settlement Hearing to Be Postponed On Sept. 22, the parties involved in the Google Book Search settlement have asked the federal court to postpone the scheduled Oct. 7 hearing to give them time to work with the U.S. Department of Justice so that the parties can amend the Settlement Agreement. |
Information Today September 22, 2011 Nancy K. Herther |
Authors Take Libraries to Court in Face Off on Copyright Issues On Sept. 12, eight authors -- including James Shapiro and Fay Weldon -- along with three key organizations representing authors in North America and Australia -- filed suit to stop academic libraries from their participation in HathiTrust digitization projects |
InternetNews April 29, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Google Defends Book Search Deal Google again finds itself on the defensive, trying to prove that it's not engaging in patently anti-competitive behavior. |
Information Today October 15, 2001 Gail Dykstra |
Canadian Court Rules in Favor of Freelance Authors For anyone interested in copyright, electronic databases, and freelance writers, there's a new Canadian decision you should know about that promises to be a landmark case... |
Information Today November 13, 2000 Paula J. Hane |
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Tasini Case In September 1999, the U.S. Appeals Court for the Second Circuit, in New York, reversed a lower-court decision and ruled that it's copyright infringement for a publisher to put a freelancer's work online or reuse or resell it without explicit permission... |
InternetNews September 4, 2009 |
Google Books Scrutiny Mounts as Deadline Nears Google agrees to create privacy policy for its Book Search project amid FTC concerns. |
InternetNews August 26, 2009 |
Opponents Rally Against Google Book Search True to their word, a handful of the biggest players in tech have thrown their lot in with the Internet Archive to derail Google's settlement with authors and publishers concerning its Book Search project. |
InternetNews February 5, 2010 |
DoJ Still Wary About Google Book Settlement Federal attorneys say amended settlement still doesn't address fundamental antitrust and copyright concerns. |
InternetNews September 8, 2009 |
EU Officials Offer Tepid Praise for Google Books Commissioners call for reform of European copyright laws so that projects like Google's Book Search could be implemented swiftly and fairly. |
Information Today March 30, 2001 Barbara Quint |
One Hour to Midnight: Tasini Oral Arguments at the Supreme Court Silence in the court. As the last red light flickered on the dais, the long legal debate over the rights of publishers to distribute content created by freelance writers in electronic form came to an end at 11:04 a.m. EST on Wednesday, March 28... |
Information Today April 15, 2010 Nancy Herther |
Google Sued for Copyright Infringement by Photographers and Visual Artists Google is accused of illegally scanning millions of copyrighted images in what the suit calls "the most widespread, well-publicized, and uncompensated infringement of exclusive rights in images in the history of book and periodical publishing" |
InternetNews October 30, 2008 Kenneth Corbin |
Google, Books and 'Consumer Bandwidth' Wary optimism greets Google's settlement with publishers, authors. Bigger copyright challenge looms from Viacom; bookselling industry still needs a lifeline. |
InternetNews November 16, 2009 |
Google Books Still Faces Criticism After Revision Google submitted to a federal court a revised version of a controversial settlement agreement with two author and publisher groups that would make millions of out-of-print books available online. Opponents of the deal argue that the changes are more cosmetic than substantive. |
Information Today November 3, 2008 Barbara Quint |
The Google Book Search Settlement: `The Devil's in the Details' For the last 3 years, the Google Book Search Library Project has operated under the shadow of lawsuits filed by the Authors Guild and several members in a class action suit and by the Association of American Publishers. |
InternetNews August 21, 2009 |
Heavy Hitters Taking Swings at Google Book Search Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon joining new coalition aiming to block Google's settlement agreement with authors and publishers. |
Information Today October 22, 2001 Barbara Quint |
A Second Tasini? National Geographic Loses to Freelance Photographers On October 9, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the National Geographic Society to overturn an appellate court decision over digitized photographs that had posed another test of the intellectual property rights of freelancers... |
InternetNews August 31, 2009 |
EU Commissioner Praises Google Books Project Official praise from overseas as controversial settlement with authors and publishers head to court in United States. |
Information Today April 11, 2011 |
Library Copyright Alliance Releases Analysis of the Google Books Settlement Rejection The LCA comprises the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Association of College and Research Libraries. |
Information Today January 2007 George H. Pike |
Legal Update: Where the Lawsuits Are Updates on lengthy search-related lawsuits involving Google and Microsoft. |
Information Today November 23, 2009 Barbara Quint |
Here We Go Again! The Revised Google Book Settlement Last week, when Google and its someday-soon ex-litigants filed a revised settlement agreement with the court, the media coverage proved equally feverish. |
InternetNews June 3, 2005 Tim Gray |
Apple Settles iPod Battery Claim Apple has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit over the rechargeable battery in its popular iPod. |
InternetNews November 13, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
Deadline Extended in California MS Settlement Businesses and consumers now have until January 8, 2005 to file claims in the state of California's antitrust settlement with Microsoft. |
InternetNews June 10, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Google Stumps for Book Search Settlement Google is getting vocal about what the deal with authors and publishers would and wouldn't allow it to do. |
Information Today May 17, 2010 |
Open Book Alliance Releases Comprehensive Analysis of Proposed Google Books Settlement The Open Book Alliance has released a comprehensive analysis that it says details how the proposed Google Books Settlement violates international laws and treaties. |
Registered Rep. May 2, 2011 Diana Britton |
Securities America Moves One Step Closer to Finalizing Settlement After months at the negotiating table with clients who filed arbitration and class action claims against the firm, Securities America is one step closer to getting the OK on a $150 million settlement. |
Registered Rep. December 22, 2006 Halah Touryalai |
Spitzer Wants More Settlement Dollars for New York UBS Reps New York Attorney General and Governor-elect Eliot Spitzer is asking a Northern California court to disapprove the settlement terms of an overtime suit against UBS. |
Information Today October 7, 2014 Nancy K. Herther |
European Law Works to Move Copyright Into the 21st Century The European Court of Justice ruled that libraries, "for the purpose of research or private study," can digitize works as a legitimate fair use exemption to European Union copyright law, with some specific limitations. |
Registered Rep. September 13, 2007 Halah Touryalai |
Overtime Finally Pays Off Smith Barney brokers may be the first to cash in on overtime lawsuits that have been all the rage over the last two years. |
The Motley Fool January 28, 2008 Dan Caplinger |
Travel Abroad? Get Back Some Money It's time for credit card companies to pay you back. The result of a recent suit was a settlement that could get you some money back if you've paid currency-conversion fees while traveling in a foreign country between 1996 and 2006. |
Information Today September 12, 2011 George H. Pike |
Orphan Works Project to Scan Library Books for Online Database This Orphan Works Project could result in digital access to millions of out-of-print books, but it also runs a risk of violating federal copyright laws. |
InternetNews October 29, 2008 David Needle |
Authors Cheer Google Book Search Deal Settlement for $125 million ends a long battle over Google's Library project and searching inside books. |
Information Today July 30, 2012 George H. Pike |
Justice Department Responds to Ebook Lawsuit Objections The U.S. Department of Justice responded to public comments made objecting to the department's proposed settlement of price fixing charges levied against Apple, Inc., HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and four other publishers. |
IEEE Spectrum January 2013 Chris Thompson |
Harvard's Alternative to Google Books Universities launch a digital public library which will archive every book in the public domain and offer them online to anyone. The library's prototype is expected to launch this year. |
Searcher September 2001 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - That Windblown Look Now that the Supreme Court has made its decision in the Tasini case, one which confirms the copyright ownership of freelance authors in full-text material currently online, our world trembles as it waits to learn how publishers, database aggregators, search services, and authors will work out their ownership problems. |
Information Today December 16, 2014 Nancy K. Herther |
Apple Continues to Challenge Ebook Antitrust Decision The settlement is final, but Apple's payout only happens if it either accepts the judgment (which it has indicated it won't) or loses in appeal. |