College and university library officials are largely disappointed with Google's decision to exclude non-English books from its digital ... critics of a proposed legal settlement, saying the move would cut Google's massive online collection in half and could hamper ... its control over millions of copyright-protected books earmarked for its Google Book Search library if a court approves a revised ...

... and bookstore. The Open Book Alliance said the deal fails to address its members' underlying concerns. Google announced the changes late Friday, which it said would address some of the concerns about the settlement by ... remains a set-piece designed to serve the private commercial interests of Google and its partners." The alliance is made up of companies such as Amazon, ...

... press conference to announce the settlement of a lawsuit. Yet, representatives of Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers ( ... the hundreds of objectors to version 1.0 of the Google Book Search (GBS) settlement to study revisions ... Guild. It remains to be seen whether the DOJ will now bless the GBS deal. To my mind, the most serious problem with GBS 1.0 ...

... earlier this month, Google has finally proposed another settlement in the case over its book deal. The new settlement, filed on ... as Google for those works. The proposed settlement also takes care of so-called “orphan” works& ... effectively killed the last settlement attempt, says they’re still looking into the deal. The newly proposed settlement, of course, restarts the judicial ...

... Chin has granted preliminary approval of the amended Google Book Search Settlement. Here's the order. Read more about it at "Judge Gives Preliminary Approval to Google Deal, Sets Feb. 18 for Final ... February Hearing for New Google Books Deal." Related Posts Google Book Search ... Books Settlement Status Conference Reports Google Book Settlement Fairness Hearing Postponed ...

... Authors Guild filed a revised version of the Google Book Search Settlement. It's now up to Judge ... provision, which according to the Times "was widely interpreted as ensuring that no other company could get a better deal with authors and publishers than the one ... pertain only to US copyright holders), have been addressed by restricting Google's database to books published in the US, Canada ...

... research travel would like it too. But it presents all sort of interesting situations that only a 21st century scholar has to deal with. If you are interested in some of the more interesting recent articles, take a look at Life in a Google Book Search World from August 12, 2009 which explores how months after Google reached a ...

... ;s repository and resell them. If the DOJ requests more changes, they would likely be of the sort that would be unsatisfactory to Google, which has its own stubborn ideas of how to do things. Larry and Sergey are right; anyone ... Read what third-party pundits are saying about the revised Google Book Search deal here. So much scorn for Google, and it can only end badly if Google continues ...

... funds reverted to known rights holders after five years. The changes also restrict the Google catalog to books published in the United States, Britain, ... the world's books," the engineering director for Google Book Search, Dan Clancy, wrote in a ... original $125 million agreement. While the decision on whether to approve the deal will be in the hands of Judge Chin, the Justice Department' ...

... an amazing job of analyzing the latest draft of the Google Book Search settlement, really making the legalese ... works legislation that would empower the Registry to make the same deal (or even a better deal) with others who want to use these unclaimed works. (Where the claimed books ... a simple market transaction between commercial entities. Google is building an enormously important public resource, ...

... postponement because they wanted to submit an amended settlement to deal with the objections. Notably, the U.S. Department of Justice ... based on classification numbers. We know that copyrighted journals are in the Google Book Search database from the participating libraries ... 8221; and now includes EPUB as well as “other formats for use on electronic book reading devices, mobile phones, portable ...

Late Friday night, Google filed a revised version of its book settlement with the New York court that is overseeing the case. The new version limits the settlement to works ... legal, privacy, and business issues. Perhaps the most significant change made to the deal is the limit to its scope. The EU as a whole (and several of its member countries) objected to several ...

... 2009, November 15). Parties Submit New Proposal to Settle Google Book Search Litigation – Publishing. The Chronicle ... set-piece designed to serve the private commercial interests of Google and its partners,” it said. The alliance argued that “by performing surgical nip and tuck,” the parties to the deal “are attempting to distract people from their continued efforts to ...

... people in the scholarly/library community who have unanswered questions about the terms of the new GBS deal. So I was hoping you could help us out. Would you mind answering these so I can post the answers on my blog? 1) ... always, if a rightsholder requests that we not scan their book or that we stop indexing their book and showing results in Google, we will respect this request. 2) Will you ...

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE Associated Press Internet search leader Google will ease its control over millions of copyright-protected books earmarked for its digital library if a court approves a revised lawsuit settlement that addresses objections of antitrust regulators. The offer comes two months . . . Full Story