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Court Rejects Google Book Settlement
Yesterday, U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin rejected the Book Rights Registry settlement between Google and the US Authors Guild. The $125 million commercial agreement would have rewarded both [...]
In Artists Rights, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Google Book Search Settlement, Illustrators Partnership, Orphan Rights, Orphan Works
Posted Individual Rights Versus the Collective
For the last several days, we’ve been responding to queries about the announced “class-action” lawsuit by “visual arts” organizations against Google in the matter of [...]
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Posted Orphan Works and the Google Settlement Part 3: Compelling Arguments
Compelling Arguments On September 10, 2009, Marybeth Peters, Register of the US Copyright Office, testified before Congress in opposition to the Google Book Search Settlement. Her arguments on [...]
In Artists Rights, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Google Book Search Settlement, Illustrators Partnership, Marybeth Peters, Orphan Rights, Orphan Works
Posted Orphan Works and the Google Book Settlement / Part II
A Reversal of Copyright LawLast Friday we summarized the basic details of the Google Book Search Settlement. Like the visual arts “databases” we opposed last year, this agreement [...]
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Posted Orphan Works and the Google Book Settlement / Part I
We’ve been asked for news about the Orphan Works bill. Last June Intellectual Property Watch warned that it would be back during the summer. And on June 11th, Senator Orrin Hatch confirmed his [...]