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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.
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.
The Motley Fool October 12, 2009 Anders Bylund	Google the Trailblazer Google really is making the world a better place with its project to make a digital copy of every book in the world.
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.
AFP eWire January 21, 2008	Congressional Committee Suggests Fundraising Cost Disclosures Several members of Congress are calling for charities to disclose their fundraising costs and how much they spend on programs and services.
InternetNews February 11, 2009 Judy Mottl	New Kindle's 'Read to Me' Spurs Copyright Review Amazon's new Kindle2 'read-to-me' feature that turns text to voice is under review by an author's advocacy group in relation to potential copyright issues.
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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.
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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.
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.
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Information Today September 22, 2008 Robin Peek	Fair Copyright in Research Works Act Challenges Federal Funding Some publishers are fighting the national Institutes of Health legislation that requires federally funded research to be made available through PubMed Central.
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 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.
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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.
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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.
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InternetNews February 13, 2009 Judy Mottl	Authors Want Amazon Kindle to Stop Talking Writers' advocacy group says text-to-voice feature should be disabled until copyright issue is resolved.
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